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.”

Yoga Ecologist Says You Can “Love Away the CO2” to Fight Climate Change!

“Inhale up to your heart. Exhale up to the atmosphere. Love away the carbon dioxide.” Yes, you read that right! That’s just one part of the yogic meditation exercise prescribed by an anonymous blogger for healing the earth by stopping global warming. Too crazy to be real? Not in the mystical world of deep ecology […]

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Evangelical Environmentalists Undermine Pro-Life Movement, Again

About two years ago over 30 of the nation’s pro-life leaders issued an official statement against an environmental campaign spearheaded by the Evangelical Environmental Network calling mercury regulations “pro-life.” Instead of correcting its claims, EEN doubled down and expanded them, further obscuring the meaning of “pro-life” and diluting its usefulness to identify people working to end abortion

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Congressional Doctors Warn EPA’s CO2 Rule Threatens Public Health

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claims that its new rule restricting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants will improve Americans’ health. Yet carbon dioxide (CO2) isn’t poisonous at levels more than 20 times what they now are—levels we wouldn’t likely reach for a thousand years or more even without restrictions on emissions, and even if

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Conservative Evangelicals Supporting EPA’s CO2 Rule? Nothing Here But Dog Bites Man

Originally Published at Townhall.com Mystified by all the news lately that “conservative, evangelical Christians” have suddenly become very worried about climate change when none of your conservative, evangelical Christian friends have done so? Perplexed by reports that “conservative, evangelical Christians” spoke out in favor of the federal EPA’s new proposed rule requiring 30% cuts in

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The Threat to the Scientific Method that Explains the Spate of Fraudulent Science Publications

First Published on Townhall.com In his recent article “The Threat to the Scientific Method,” Dr. Patrick Michaels, a climatologist who for 30 years was Research Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia and now directs the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute, pointed to a serious problem: the corruption

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Climate Consensus? Nonsense!

So, someone privately messaged us saying her friend had posted this article, and she (who messaged us) wondered how we’d respond. Okay, we give up. We’ll never persuade people like Slate.com’s Phil Plait. Not if this article, and this and this typify his thought processes. His failure to dig a little deeper, as any good journalist should (which suggests how few good

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Lying with Statistics: “The National Climate Assessment” Falsely Hypes Ice Loss in Greenland and Antarctica

How fast are Greenland and Antarctica losing ice? If you trust the National Climate Assessment (NCA), you’ll think, “Very fast!” And that’s intentional. The aim is to provoke fear so the American public will support the Obama administration’s aim to spend $Trillions fighting global warming. Here’s how the NCA (in Appendix 4, FAQ-L) depicts the

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Join Governors Urging Obama to Adopt Sane Energy and Environment Policy!

The governors of nine states recently wrote an excellent letter to President Barack Hussein Obama urging him to “pursue a pragmatic energy policy that balances our nation’s economic needs, energy security, and environmental quality objectives.” The Cornwall Alliance has been trumpeting this message for years. It’s great to see these governors embracing it. Pointing out that new breakthroughs

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Global Warming Alarmist Makes Bogus Challenge to Skeptics

The brilliant Progressives over at the Daily Kos are all atwitter about the bold wager of $10,000 offered by physicist Dr. Christopher Keating to anyone who can “prove, via the scientific method, that man-made global climate change is not occurring.” Wow! It’s put-up or shut-up time for climate skeptics like us at the Cornwall Alliance, right? Ten grand ripe for the picking!All

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