E. Calvin Beisner

Dr. Beisner is Founder and National Spokesman of The Cornwall Alliance; former Associate Professor of Historical Theology & Social Ethics, at Knox Theological Seminary, and of Interdisciplinary Studies, at Covenant College; and author of “Where Garden Meets Wilderness: Evangelical Entry into the Environmental Debate” and “Prospects for Growth: A Biblical View of Population, Resources, and the Future.”

Is There a “Balance of Nature”?

Environmentalists, including the advisors responsible for the content of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’, and even many of their critics, routinely refer to a “balance of nature,” a concept that elicits visions of fragile nature knocked off balance by crossing “tipping points” that lead to catastrophes–concepts fundamental to global warming alarmism. Veteran ecologist Daniel Botkin finds

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Validation of IPCC’s Global Warming Forecasts would Require More than Tripling Warming Rate

At +0.11C per decade rate, Global Average Temperature would rise 1.1C in a century, not the ~3C generally predicted by IPCC without CO2 emission reduction. Actual increase in the 36.5 years since 1978 is 0.407C. To wind up with 3C increase in the century from 1978 through 2077, we’d need to add another 2.593C in

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What Planet Does Pope Francis Live On?

Steven W. Mosher expresses dismay at Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’ not because it embraces fears of dangerous manmade global warming (though he points out those baseless fears in it, too) but because many of its ecological claims are just plain wrong. “Having read through Pope Francis’ new encyclical, I am dismayed at how many groundless assertions

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Bishop’s “Call to Action” on Climate and Fossil Fuels May Be Less than Meets the Eye

Paul Etienne, Catholic Bishop of Cheyenne, with jurisdiction over the Diocese of Wyoming, was cited recently in Inside Energy as calling Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’ “a call to action” for Wyoming, the nation’s largest coal-producing state. But there might not be quite so much to what Bishop Etienne said as Inside Energy would wish. The sole quote

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Getting Down to Nitty Gritty: Why Wind and Solar Threaten Electricity Grids and People’s Health and Safety

Rud Istvan has a very instructive article at Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. blog about the challenges of bring wind and solar power into use through electricity grids. Bottom line: Their intermittency greatly increases the costs of electricity while reducing its reliability, bringing threats to people’s health and safety wherever they begin to make up a significant

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Supreme Court Vindicates Cornwall Alliance on Mercury Emissions

Monday, July 1, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) violated the law by imposing regulations on mercury emissions from power plants without first doing thorough benefit/cost estimates. Nearly four years ago the Cornwall Alliance published a study by environmental regulatory economics Dr. Timothy Terrell, The Cost of Good Intentions:

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Why do I Think Climate Alarmists Are Overreacting?

Religion Dispatches posted Jacob J. Erickson’s interesting article “Falling in Love with the Earth: Francis’ Faithful Ecology,” about a week ago, and one follower, “Whiskyjack,” chastened Catholic Republican Presidential candidates for hypocrisy on the grounds that they accept his authority on abortion and homosexuality but not on climate change. I replied: Catholic dogma holds that

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Estimates of climate sensitivity falling

Just came across this, and it’s stunning. Those who charge CAGW skeptics with being anti-science need to take a look at this and consider carefully: Who’s been trending right about how much warming comes from adding CO2 to the atmosphere? For in-depth discussion, see Nicholas Lewis, “Pitfalls in climate sensitivity estimation,” Part 1, Part 2, and

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