World’s Poor Desperately Need Abundant, Affordable, Reliable Energy

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Cornwall’s “Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change” drove home multiple scientific and economic reasons for Pope Francis to send Ban Ki-Moon and Jeffrey Sachs packing last Tuesday. But most important is this: The world’s poor desperately need abundant, affordable, reliable energy, and Sachs and Ban would deprive them of it. Pope Francis should […]

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Hydrocarbon Use and Human Material Wellbeing: A Case Against Mitigating Global Warming by Reduced Fossil Fuels Use—Talk Given in Rome, Italy April 28, 2015

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I have a very simple point to make for you today: that because human material wellbeing depends heavily on access to abundant, affordable, reliable energy, and because fossil fuels are and for the foreseeable future will be, along with nuclear, our best source of such energy, the demand to reduce our use of fossil fuels

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Dr. Beisner’s Remarks at Press Conference in Rome April 27

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Having read some 50 books on the science and over 30 on the economics of climate policy, plus thousands of articles, including hundreds of peer-reviewed ones, I could talk on those topics. I could point out that computer climate models on average simulate twice as much warming as observed over the relevant period, and none

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Update on Trip to Rome Italy from Dr. E. Calvin Beisner

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Today I’ll be among 8 scholars speaking for a press conference in Rome to bring balance to a global warming alarmist biased conference at the Vatican tomorrow. We have outstanding climate scientists who can explain what’s wrong with IPPC “science.” My basic message? Policies to fight AGW will condemn the world’s poor to more generations

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Hollywood and the Environmentalist Movement: Eco-Fanatic Movies Have a Mixed History at the Box Office

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Like other misguided ideologues, some in Hollywood have adopted the environmentalist or ecology movement to support their efforts to support big government. Their efforts paid off in 2006 and 2007 when Al Gore’s factually challenged, hysterical rallying cry for global warming, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, earned a fair amount of money, at least for a documentary,

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For Three Billion People, Coal Looks Pretty Good

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Ask a typical college student about “environmentally friendly” energy sources, and the student will usually respond with comments on wind energy, solar energy, or at least “renewable fuels.” Coal would never make the list. But as an economist, I’m always teaching students about trade-offs. There is no energy source that is costless, either financially or

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My Sister and I

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When we were kids my sister and I were best friends, inseparable even. Something changed during adulthood and we ventured down separate paths. I’m a rock ribbed conservative, she’s just as firmly entrenched in political liberalism. I’m a fundamentalist evangelical (in the classic meaning of those terms) and sis leans a little new age. Perhaps

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