Mother’s Day and Abortion: Hope for the Living and the Lost

I was born through a mother. So were you. But even as I was wishing a happy Mother’s Day to folks yesterday, a primetime news headline on CNN’s international website caught my eyes: “There was no hope.” CNN’s Attack on Mother’s Day The article talked of the difficulty in getting an abortion in Italy. CNN followed that with an article reporting on […]

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Air Pollution: Why There’s Hope for a Brighter Future

For many people today, humanity’s biggest moral failure is that we are destroying our environment. Nations that took part in the Industrial Revolution (those that conquered poverty long before others) get the lion’s share of the blame. High on the list of their crimes is air pollution. Soot- and smog-filled skies are an affront to

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Whose Business Is It Anyway? When I Got Climate-Bullied on Twitter

The hate level on Twitter can far exceed any other on social media. But many sane, civilized, intelligent people on Twitter continue to make our world a better place. They share ideas and communicate life-altering, life-saving information to the larger public. Twitter also provides a platform to engage with peers. As a climate researcher, I

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Climate Madness Might Cost Elections: Lessons from the Canadian Carbon Tax Fiasco

Politicians who favor policies to fight global warming that will impose big costs on consumers might take a lesson from what’s happening in Canada. The Trudeau government imposed a new carbon tax on its citizens effective April 1, 2019. (Yes, indeed, April Fool’s Day!) But it faces legal challenges in the provinces of Ontario, Saskatchewan,

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Can Government Agencies Protect Us from Lying Scientists and Sycophantic Media?

Newspapers, politicians and pressure groups have been moving smoothly for decades from one forecast apocalypse to another (nuclear power, acid rain, the ozone layer, mad cow disease, nanotechnology, genetically modified crops, the millennium bug…) without waiting to be proved right or wrong. So wrote Matt Ridley at the start of “Lying with science: a guide

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Beyond Partisan Ideology and Big-Oil Interests: Why Climate Skepticism Thrives

It is easy to associate climate skepticism with the Republican Party and climate alarmism with the Democratic Party. It’s also easy to brand skeptics as beneficiaries of big oil and proponents of unfettered capitalism and alarmists as in the pocket of big wind and solar and boosters of socialist central planning. But attitudes about climate

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Wind and Solar Energy—Never Meant to Work?

What would you think if someone told you that one of the most important early champions of wind power touted it precisely because he thought it couldn’t work for advanced, industrialized societies? “Aww, can’t be true”? Well, it can be, and it is. In “The Question Concerning Technology” (1954), Martin Heidegger—one of the twentieth century’s

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If Global Warming Won’t Kill Us, Will Ocean Acidification?

As the stretch of years with no statistically significant global warming lengthens, environmentalists scratch their heads and ask, “Well, if we can’t scare people with global warming, what can we use?” And one of their stock answers has become, “Ocean acidification!” Acid, you know? Nasty stuff! That’s what very bad people throw in the faces

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