I recently gave a talk to a local group of outstanding young people in Delaware who aspire to be leaders in and around our state. I presented them with observed, empirical facts: Delaware’s climate is not changing disastrously. Restricting carbon dioxide will have little impact on our climate. Nevertheless, many still wrote to me to […]
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The Arctic and the Antarctic are the darlings of the climate doomsday movement. Changes in their ice volume are often broadcasted as signs of the nearing climate apocalypse. Following record high temperatures in Antarctica last week, the global media made a clarion call for saving the planet from the imminent threat of climate change. One
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Author Hayden Ludwig will be joining the Cornwall Alliance for our Facebook and YouTube Livestream “From the Stacks” on August 18 at 7:00 pm ET. We will answer questions from the comments live during that hour. Is it pro-life to eliminate the unborn, limit the size of families, or forcibly sterilize the mentally “unfit”? The
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Presidential candidate Joe Biden has introduced a $2 trillion Clean Energy Plan. Besides missing out on providing information about how the proposed transitions to “clean technology” would work, the extreme shift towards a fossil-free energy sector reveals the volatility in Biden’s approach. Fossil Fuel, Economy, and Radical Environmentalism Energy sectors are the backbone of any
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Mainstream science and economics do not support much of the current climate policy agenda and certainly not the radical extremes demanded by activist groups There’s an assumption out there that if you “accept” the science of climate change, you are obliged to support drastic measures to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This is not true.
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One of the most important numbers in the world goes by the catchy title of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity, or ECS. It is a measure of how much the climate responds to greenhouse gases. More formally, it is defined as the increase, in degrees Celsius, of average temperatures around the world, after doubling the amount of
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The United States is the only major Western country that is not part of the Paris climate agreement, which seeks to restrict and reduce fossil fuel consumption across the world. But the country is not immune from the impacts of the restrictive energy policies the agreement imposes on its trade partners. One of those is
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Recently a friend of the Cornwall Alliance wrote us saying, I saw a very concerning rise claimed for the Great Lakes surface temps—not tenths of a degree but closer to 10. We worry for first time in my 7 decades about migration into Minnesota of poisonous species, death of favorite tree species, etc. What are
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Dr. Jim Steele, author of Ocean Health—Is there an “Acidification” Problem? and Landscapes and Cycles, will be joining us tomorrow, Tuesday July 21, for our Facebook Live Series “From the Stacks.” Dr. Steele and Dr. Beisner will discuss why fears of “ocean acidification” are mistaken, how the chemical and biological processes of the oceans regulate seawater pH so
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While 2020 will be at or near record-warmth globally, this is not something we should be particularly alarmed about. With COVID-19 and demonstrations taking center stage in news coverage, it is easy to forget that we are all dying from climate change, anyway … or so we have been told. The recent claim at cbsnews.com that 2020 will likely
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