Bridging Humanity and the Environment – Page 170

Nov 26 2016

Why Trump Should Fire the Paris Climate Treaty

By E. Calvin Beisner / November 26, 2016

Oh, the delight of knowing we’ve probably just endured the last salvo in the Obama Administration’s climate-change propaganda campaign! On November 16, U.S. delegates to COP-21 in Marrakech, Morocco—the twenty-first Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—unveiled the United States Mid-Century Strategy for Deep Decarbonization. The document sets forth […]

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Nov 18 2016

Global Warming: Policy Hoax versus Dodgy Science

By Roy W. Spencer / November 18, 2016

By Dr. Roy Spencer In the early 1990s I was visiting the White House Science Advisor, Sir Prof. Dr. Robert Watson, who was pontificating on how we had successfully regulated Freon to solve the ozone depletion problem, and now the next goal was to regulate carbon dioxide, which at that time was believed to be

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Nov 16 2016

The Phony War Against CO2

By E. Calvin Beisner / November 16, 2016

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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Nov 7 2016

Meeting God in Sandstone and Song

By David Rutherford / November 7, 2016

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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Nov 5 2016

DiCaprio’s Titanic Failure: Did “Before the Flood” Sink on Maiden Voyage?

By E. Calvin Beisner / November 5, 2016

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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Oct 25 2016

“Climate Science” Warned Us: More & Stronger Hurricanes Coming! Climate Didn’t Get the Message

By E. Calvin Beisner / October 25, 2016

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

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Oct 9 2016

Mother Theresa, the Environment, and the Poor in India

By Vijay Jayaraj / October 9, 2016

“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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Oct 7 2016

Hurricane Matthew—A Grateful Retrospect

By E. Calvin Beisner / October 7, 2016

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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Oct 5 2016

Preparing for Hurricane Matthew in South Florida

By E. Calvin Beisner / October 5, 2016

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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Sep 28 2016

How do Climate Alarmists Appear Moderate?

By E. Calvin Beisner / September 28, 2016

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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