The Cornwall Alliance, the roots of which we saw in Part 1, almost got its start in 2000, though with different name, constituency, and mission. That was when the short-lived Interfaith Council on Environmental Stewardship got its start. It grew out of a meeting of 25 Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish theologians, economists, environmental scientists, and policy specialists in October 1999, at a retreat center in West Cornwall, CT. Sponsored by the Acton Institute for the Study of … [Read more...]
Why “Follow the Money” Doesn’t Cut It
Dr. David Kreutzer, an economist formerly with the Heritage Foundation and now with the Institute for Energy Research, was Cornwall Alliance's livestream guest July 27 to discuss why President Joe Biden's "Net Zero by 2050" plan not only won't succeed but can't. (You can watch it on Facebook or YouTube.) When I announced this on Facebook, a friend from back in high school days---a fellow Christian and sincere person---commented, "No, thank you. I prefer to hear and read people with expertise … [Read more...]
Comments On Federal Scientific Integrity
Guest column by Kenneth Haapala, President, The Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) “It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe. It is quite another to do so when the environmental problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by careful observations. This is definitely the case with global warming.” - Frederick Seitz, 17th president of the United States National Academy of Sciences This … [Read more...]
A Brief History of the Cornwall Alliance—Part 1: Early Seeds
Like every person, and every ministry, the Cornwall Alliance and I have roots going back well before our actual founding in 2005. With our 16th birthday coming up August 31, I’d like to reminisce just a bit about one of those roots. When I was just short of a year old, my father—a journalist—accepted a position with the United States Information Service, under the State Department. With his wife and four children, he moved to Calcutta (now Kolkota), India, where his task was to help … [Read more...]
“Net Zero by 2050”: Roadmap to Conflict and Poverty
The Biden Administration wants America to make emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases amount to “net zero”—that is, for emissions and removal of GHGs to be equal—by 2050. The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA, established in 1974 under the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development following the 1973 oil crisis to ensure that oil supplies remained secure) has released a new study purporting to show how to get there. But Dr. David Kreutzer, Senior … [Read more...]
BC Heat Wave Caused by Natural Climate Variability, Not Global Warming: Extreme Weather Expert
Guest author Isaac Teo As the intense heat wave in the western provinces eases its grip, a former Environment Canada research scientist says that this weather event, while unusual, was caused by natural climate variability and is comparable to heat waves that occurred in the 1920s and 30s. “This heat wave was exceptional, but it does not indicate any serious climate change issue,” Madhav Khandekar, an extreme weather expert, told The Epoch Times. “I think it is part of natural … [Read more...]
The Many Hopeless European Climate Change Laws
Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT University, one of the world’s leading experts on atmospheric physics, had these extraordinary words: ‘Carbon control is a bureaucratic dream. If you control carbon, you control life’. The European Commission (EC), in its desire to control CO2 emissions, is going to – although it is not intended to – control the daily lives of European citizens. On 14 July 2021, the EC published a package of legislative measures to achieve the targets agreed by … [Read more...]
Obama official concedes it’s impossible to predict the risks of climate change
But media, politicians, and scientists skew climate data A review of Steven E. Koonin's Unsettled? What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters Mark Twain has supposedly quipped that: “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” Challenging what we know for sure about climate change is Unsettled? What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, by Steven E. Koonin. Dr. … [Read more...]
Book Review: Unsettled by Steven Koonin
About the Author Steven Koonin is a physicist and former undersecretary for science in the Obama Administration's Department of Energy where he guided the government's investments in energy technologies and climate science, and former Chief Scientist for Beyond Petroleum (BP) in charge of advancing their renewable technology efforts. Unsettled is a book about scientific integrity, and I believe Mr. Koonin has done a noteworthy job of writing this book in a descriptive manner rather than a … [Read more...]
Faith in the Invisible and the Nature of Reality
When I was a teenager, I remember hearing the question “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? – and thinking what a stupid question – of course it makes a sound. But the longer I teach science, and the more I learn about our world at the quantum level, the less sure I am about the true nature of reality. Like Neo in The Matrix – do I want the blue pill or the red pill? Of course, when a tree falls in the forest it sets up a … [Read more...]
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