Witch Hunts, Climate, and Climate-Change Madness

Cornwall Alliance Contributing Writer Gregory Wrightstone, author of Inconvenient Facts, posted a great video to YouTube explaining how the bitter cold, failed harvests, and famines of the Little Ice Age contributed to the witchcraft scare that led to the gruesome executions of many women (and some men) wrongly thought to be witches. Today, it’s not […]

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The Intrinsic Value of Nature and the Proper Stewardship of the Climate

Ross McKitrick[1] Department of Economics University of Guelph For presentation to “Exploring the theological, economic, cultural and political assumptions for faith groups (and others) dealing with climate change.” Conference at Huron College, University of Western Ontario, May 29, 2012. Abstract: Historically there have been three broad ways of viewing the natural world. Primitive cultures viewed

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Does Government Really Need to Regulate Everything?

In high school and college, I competed in debate tournaments across the state and country. I clearly remember many occasions when a debate team’s plan would include abolishing some government program. Inevitably, the opponents would ask, “What will you replace it with?” Only once did I hear any debater respond with, “Nothing at all. Government

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Did Hurricanes Florence and Michael Provide New Evidence for Manmade Global Warming?

Apparently acting on the principle that you never let a good crisis go to waste, the Washington Post on October 18 published a breathless story titled “In North Carolina, hurricanes did what scientists could not: Convince Republicans that climate change is real.” Tracy Jan, a young reporter covering “the intersection of race and the economy,” which

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Does Bill Gates Fail to See Himself in the World’s Growing Billions?

Bill Gates is a brilliant man. His combination of tech and business savvy not only made him one of the world’s richest people (currently, with a net worth of about $90 billion, #2 behind Jeff Bezos’s $112 billion) but also gave him the opportunity to be one of the world’s biggest philanthropists, chairing, with wife

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Adapt, Change, or Just Swim! Why Fish Will Not Face Climate Apocalypse

It is said the modern man-made climate change impacts ocean life, more specifically the life of marine fishes. It is said that some species could become extinct or vulnerable in the near future. However, are these claims true, and what does the available empirical evidence suggest? During my three years as a graduate student at

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