Cornwall Alliance Contributing Writer Charles Clough—a veteran meteorologist as well as a theologian, pastor, and graduate of MIT—supports a call by MIT Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science Richard Lindzen for the U.S. to leave the U.N Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris climate agreement, and explains why a group of MIT professors who […]
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By now everybody knows that the national academies of science of the world’s top countries, and various professional scientific associations, and in short all people with brains firmly believe that human emissions of carbon dioxide have been the primary driver of global warming/climate change for the past half century. But what most people don’t know
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As a candidate Donald Trump promised to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate treaty/aka agreement if elected President. Now he’s reported to be wavering. The Wall Street Journal editorial team gives him good reasons not only to Pexit (exit Paris) but also to Clexit (exit the whole international climate negotiation institution, the U.N. Framework
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Polar bear expert Susan Crockford explodes the myth that global warming threatens polar bears in a new video from the Global Warming Policy Foundation. The numbers tell the story: global polar bear population has risen to over 30,000 despite decline in summer Arctic sea ice extent.
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Ironies are often fun, and that’s certainly the case with the failed effort by Standing Rock Sioux to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. David Middleton makes the point clearly, summed up in these three ironies: The protest led to a $6 million loss in revenue at the tribe’s gambling casino. The protest camp
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NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) eagerly reported March 8 that February was the second warmest February in the last 123 years for the contiguous U.S. Various news media played it up. More evidence of dangerous, manmade global warming! (Except that of course warming is only evidence of warming, not of manmade warming. And the
Second Warmest February in 123 Years for Contiguous U.S.—Ho Hum Learn More »
For years people like Al Gore, Robert Kennedy Jr., John Cook, and others have labeled those who question one or another aspect of the case for belief in dangerous human-induced climate change as “science deniers,” “climate deniers,” “environmental criminals,” and worse. Such rhetoric is far from helpful not only because it demonizes, making respectful dialogue difficult
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The radical environmentalist group Greenpeace has been claiming that a Canadian company, Resolute Forest Products, has caused extensive forest loss. Resolute sued for defamation and, in court proceedings, offered convincing that it had caused no forest loss whatever. Greenpeace’s reply? As summarized by Resolute President and CEO Richard Garneau, its “accusations against Resolute were ‘hyperbole,’
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The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation is the foremost Christian voice promoting Biblical earth stewardship, economic development for the poor through free markets and sound energy policy, and the proclamation and defense of the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are seeking interns, volunteer and paid, for both semester and summer positions. Internships will
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Yesterday I reported that Judith Curry has published a paper concluding (my way of putting it) that the computer climate models on which climate-change alarmists depend provide no rational basis for predictions of future global temperature and therefore no rational basis for any policy related to such predictions. One step in climate-and-energy policy making is
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