A friend of the Cornwall Alliance recently wrote, “I have been seeing things online about Greenland wildfires of peat being caused by global warming and I was wondering if you all have any resources that address this.” A fairly up-to-date article about the Greenland peat fires points out that humans probably caused the fires (perhaps through […]
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Since 1900 the number of deaths from natural disasters, including floods, hurricanes/cyclones, earthquakes, and tornados, has fallen dramatically, even as the number of reported occurrences of such events increased due to improved telecommunications and technologies to track and report such events, broader news coverage, and the globalization of international aid. Even as global population has
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It was inevitable that global warming alarmists like Al Gore would blame mankind for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Why? Well, with folks saying global warming causes over 600 other things—from longer plane flights to summer frost in Africa, from a beer shortage to beetle infestation, from struggling brothels to declining rates of circumcision, from early
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In the late 1970s, our energy outlook was not looking good. Over six years, gas prices had tripled and there were shortages and long lines at the pump. It appeared that we were at the mercy of OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries). Experts predicted that we would be out of oil soon, perhaps
Larry Bell dispels the myth that Hurricanes Harvey and Irma were “the worst ever” and made so by anthropogenic global warming. Neither was either. See his “No, Hurricanes Aren’t More Frequent or Severe” for a tidy historical review that includes this: A review of North Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane patterns fails to reveal any
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Perennial climate-change alarmist Dana Nuccitelli is upset—as always. This time, it’s because Donald Trump nominated Congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) to become the next administrator of NASA. What’s Nuccitelli’s beef? “Scientists and astronauts are usually chosen to lead NASA, for obvious reasons. Bridenstine is neither ….” Likewise, ClimateHawksVote.com, led by 350.org founder and environmental activist Bill McKibben and self-described
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While Hurricane Irma was making its way through the Caribbean as a Category 5 storm, the National Hurricane Center predicted that it would veer north before reaching Florida; then that it would veer north a little later, skirting Florida’s Atlantic coast and bringing devastation; then that it would veer north still later, plowing right into
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USA Today reports that 80% of disaster relief aid following Hurricanes Harvey and Irma comes from faith-based organizations—denominations, individual churches, non-denominational charitable organizations. For anyone familiar with Marvin Olasky’s The Tragedy of American Compassion, that’s no surprise. In what Bill Bennett called “the most important book on welfare and social policy in a decade. Period,” Olasky
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Twenty-nine years ago record drought and fires hit the West and no one seemed to notice. Frustrated, I sent query letters to the three largest East Coast newspapers, and to my surprise, The New York Times answered. My article on the West’s drought and fires ran in August 1988 in the New York Times Magazine and was syndicated and
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This morning my wife, Debby, and I walked around our neighborhood—99 homes out of a total subdivision of about 2,400 homes—in southwest Broward County, FL, surveying the surprisingly light damage Hurricane Irma left. A few trees were down, one directly across the street, another, around the corner, on a car. Many tree branches and palm
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