India last week announced its “climate action plan” in preparation for December’s climate summit in Paris, and the featured points grabbed the world’s attention: 40% increase of “clean [i.e., CO2-free] energy” by 2030; reduced CO2 “emission intensity” by 33% from 2005 levels by 2030; calling for wealth countries of the West to help it meet […]
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Speaking September 29 at the UN General Assembly, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it perfectly clear: India will not stop or even slow its people’s rise out of poverty to satisfy the global warming elites of the West. Modi told the UN that any climate agreement acceptable to India must function “without affecting our ability
Back in June I had the tremendous privilege of interviewing 32 scholars and leaders on camera for Cornwall Alliance’s forthcoming documentary, Where the Grass is Greener: Biblical Stewardship vs. Climate Alarmism, and our already posting YouTube video series Greener on the Other Side: Climate Alarmism—Facts, Not Fear (subscribe to our YouTube channel and you’ll be notified of new
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On June 16, 2015, I received an email from New York Times “reporter” Justin Gillis, who has written much highly critical of those who are skeptical of claims of catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming—people like me. Because I had taken the lead in producing An Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change, Gillis posed some questions
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In addition to economic growth, should improving the climate be an important goal of government policy? The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate offers ten recommendations designed to help countries of all income levels achieve these two goals. Their first recommendation is that cities “commit to developing and implementing low-carbon urban development strategies by
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Terry Scanlon of the Capital Research Center leads his latest email this way: When you gas your car with 10% ethanol, you’re dragged into the Renewable Fuel Standard morass run by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). This environmentalist policy is so terrible, even the greens have turned against it. But as a government program, it’s
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First they came after your toilets. Then they came after your light bulbs. Now they’re after your dishwasher. Federal regulators never rest, do they? It’s not enough that they mandated that toilets use so little water per flush that it often takes two, three, or more flushes to get rid of—well, you know. It’s not
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Folks like those who stage events like the “Walk Against Warming” illustrated above think fighting climate change is a high priority. President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry say climate change is the greatest threat facing the world. But United Nations-sponsored worldwide polling suggests that how people answer the question, “How high a priority is
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So climate alarmists want a rapid, mandatory shift from fossil fuels—chiefly coal and natural gas—to wind and solar to save us all from catastrophic global warming. What comes with that? The people of England and Wales have found out, and it isn’t pretty. Over a decade ago, the United Kingdom began a rigorous policy of
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Over in Harlan, Kentucky, last month, I asked a coal miner if he dreaded heading to work in the mine each morning. No, he said. It was an adventure, sort of like being an astronaut, “going where no man had gone before.” Later in the day, a half-mile underground near Pikeville, other miners talked to
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