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 […]
A Brief History of the Cornwall Alliance—Part 1: Early Seeds Learn More »
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
“Net Zero by 2050”: Roadmap to Conflict and Poverty Learn More »
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
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
The Many Hopeless European Climate Change Laws Learn More »
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
Obama official concedes it’s impossible to predict the risks of climate change Learn More »
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,
Book Review: Unsettled by Steven Koonin Learn More »
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
Faith in the Invisible and the Nature of Reality Learn More »
Guest column by Noel Funderburk Undoubtedly Al Gore made a lot of money from writing his book on “man-made” climate change. Many people and country leaders have jumped on that band wagon and are making great effort to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Our government is spending large amounts of money
The Consequences of Being Wrong on Climate Change Learn More »
“Unprecedented Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest Driven by Climate Change,” the headline in E&E News, WOWT-TV, WorldNewsNetwork, and other media outlets recently, couldn’t possibly be less scientific. With absolutely no analysis, no historical context, and nothing but conjecture, author Anne C. Mulkern, in her article for Scientific American, eschewed science for advocacy in her coverage of the brief Pacific Northwest (PNW)
Climate Change Did Not Cause Recent Record Heat Waves Learn More »
Modern society is heavily dependent on electric power. Our power systems were designed by competent engineers and operated by skilled staff, so until fairly recently people have generally been able to count on having electricity in their homes and businesses on demand, even during periods of extreme weather. Historically, the U.S. power grid has proven
U.S. Power Grid At Government-Induced Tipping Point Learn More »
