The Wall Street Journal recently published an article by physicist Rodney W. Nichols and geologist and Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt that makes perfect sense. Here’s its start: polls show that climate change is low on the list of voters’ priorities. For good reason: In the U.S., and for much of the world, the most […]
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I have had countless, profound experiences of the Earth’s environment, from fleeting moments to periods of months-long duration and from my earliest years of life to the present. One of my earliest life memories, at four years of age in 1959 while on summer vacation, is of looking out of the window of the family
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Early in Leonardo DiCaprio’s Before the Flood, which aired Sunday night on the National Geographic Channel, we see a clip of DiCaprio speaking before the U.N. General Assembly, saying, “I stand before you not as an expert.” That’s the most credible line in the movie. And the least credible may be one that follows almost
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On September 9, 2005, with much of New Orleans submerged by the failure of fifty levees and flood walls after Hurricane Katrina (category 1 at landfall) dumped 8 to 10 inches of rain, former Vice President Al Gore told the Sierra Club’s National Environmental Convention and Expo in San Francisco: Ladies and gentlemen, the warnings about
“Early this month, Mother Theresa was canonized as Saint Theresa by Pope Francis in a celebrated canonization ceremony in Vatican City. At this juncture, the same poor people in Calcutta (now Kolkata), whom she served with her life, face a different kind of threat to their lives—energy poverty caused by radical environmental policies. Sadly, these
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Two days ago, anticipating what government and media forecasters predicted could be a Category 3 or 4 hurricane’s visit to my home in south Florida, just north of Miami and seventeen miles from the coast, I wrote a brief blog piece about my preparations. Immediately afterward, I left the keyboard and started the long, hot,
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Hurricane Matthew has just passed over the east end of Cuba and is headed now for the Bahamas and then Florida. Depending on the track of the center of the storm, my family and I, living just north of Miami, could experience anything from tropical storm force winds (39 to 73 mph) to Category 4
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Climate alarmists have long faced one uphill battle in public discourse: the very fact that they’re thought of as alarmists, embracing positions that, tested by empirical science, seem at the outer—and scary—edges of possibility. What can make them seem moderate instead? Nothing better than for one of the world’s most prominent science journals, Nature, to publish
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Caffeinated Thoughts and Caffeinated Thoughts Radio are pleased to announce that renowned Christian scholar, author and lecturer Dr. E. Calvin Beisner will be a keynote speaker at the 2016 Caffeinated Thoughts Briefing on Saturday, October 15, 2016 in Johnston, IA. Beisner was a keynote speaker at the inaugural Caffeinated Thoughts Briefing in 2014. “Since I never learned to like coffee, I search
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Tomorrow the DC Circuit Court will hear, en banc, a case in which 28 states are suing the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), alleging that it lacked statutory authority to impose President Obama’s landmark environmental regulation, the Clean Power Plan (CPP), on the states. EPA claims the authority under an obscure piece of the Clean
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