Environmental ethicist H. Sterling Burnett (Ph.D., Applied Philosophy) knows how to make distinctions, and he does so nicely in his discussion of President Donald Trump’s nominations of former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State (now confirmed, though Burnett apparently wrote the piece before that) and Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) to be Secretary of […]
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Stella Morabito, writing in the Intercollegiate Review, offers ten great questions by which to detect when you’re being targeted by propaganda. They apply, each and every one, to how climate-change alarmists, and environmental alarmists generally, treat anyone who dares question their pronouncements. Here are the questions, but click through to get her valuable discussion of each:
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Cornwall Alliance Contributing Writer Anthony Sadar, a Certified Consulting Meteorologist and author of In Global Warming We Trust: Too Big to Fail, published a great piece in The DC Caller today debunking fears of an anti-science mentality taking over the federal Environmental Protection Agency under Donald Trump’s administration. Here’s the intro: There is a lot of
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While reading Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Dr. Roy W. Spencer’s “UAH Global Temperature Update for January, 2017: +0.30 deg. C,” I happened to notice that the anomaly for the globe as a whole for January 2017 was identical to that of January 2015, at 0.3˚C. Then I eyeballed the anomalies for the intervening months in
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Download the full PDF here. A newspaper reporter once asked me what I thought Biblical environmental stewardship would look like. I responded that, on the basis of Genesis 1:28, which says God blessed Adam and Eve “And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion
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The 2016 Presidential election left lots of people on lots of sides (not just two!) bruised and, sad to say, many friendships torn, some perhaps beyond repair but by the grace of God. For both religious political conservatives and religious political liberals—whether evangelicals or mainline Protestants or Roman Catholics or Mormons or Jews—the two leading
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The Guardian breathlessly reports: A Washington state judge has sparked outrage for remarks questioning the existence of climate change and the role of humans in global warming. During the high-profile trial of Ken Ward, a climate activist facing 30 years in prison for shutting down an oil pipeline, Judge Michael E Rickert said: “I don’t
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Last year and this, staff members of the Cornwall Alliance have opened windows on our lives by telling a bit about the favorite books we’ve read over the past year. I’m finding that more than a little difficult. How does one pick favorites from a list of 58 books—particularly when one also typically reads five
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A visitor to Cornwall Alliance’s Facebook page recently asked our thoughts on a new video from NASA purporting to demonstrate that global warming is happening rapidly and that there’s been no slow-down, let alone “pause,” in the last two decades. Among other media, Huffington Post featured the video in an article titled “NASA Climate Change Video
Last year Mitchell Hescox, CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network, teamed up with television meteorologist Paul Douglas to write Caring for Creation: The Evangelical’s Guide to Climate Change and a Healthy Environment (Bethany House). Their hearts are in the right place, but their understanding of global climate-change science is seriously deficient, and the result could
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