Solar Impulse: Poster Child for the Impracticality of Solar Power

Solar energy has some legitimate uses in isolated cases, such as providing electricity where there is no other source available, and when you need it so badly you are willing to pay a premium, say, for use on your sailboat. But the inherent physics limitation to solar energy is that it is so diffuse (so […]

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Climate Models: Uncertain? Inaccurate? What’s the Difference? Why Does it Matter?

For years I have been pointing out that the super-sophisticated computer climate models on which the IPCC, national environment agencies, national academies of science, and of course the many climate-alarmist advocacy groups and journalists depend for their predictions of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) predict, on average, 2 to 3 times the warming actually observed

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Is the Democratic Party’s Climate and Energy Platform Defensible?

Pressured by radical environmentalists and multi-billionaires like Tom Steyer who stand to profit, the Democratic Party has issued a new platform statement on climate and energy: Moving beyond the “all of the above” energy approach in the 2012 platform, the 2016 platform draft re-frames the urgency of climate change as a central challenge of our

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Climate Science, Energy Policy, Poverty, and Christian Faith: How do they Connect?

(Editors Note: Click graphs to enlarge) In the March 16, 2016, issue of Forbes astrophysicist Ethan Siegel’s article “The Next Great Global Warming ‘Hiatus’ is Coming!” sought to refute skeptics of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) by arguing that the apparent lack of statistically significant global warming over roughly the last 18 or 19 years

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Potential Democratic VP Misrepresents Cornwall Alliance on Senate Floor

Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a potential running-mate choice for presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, joined other Democratic Senators yesterday on the Senate floor to attack the Cornwall Alliance, and a few other Virginia-based organizations, in a poor attempt to defend climate alarmism against its critics. As usual, Kaine’s was an argument rife with logical

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Sin, Deception, and the Corruption of Science: A Look at the So-Called Climate Crisis

Summary The climate crisis agenda provides an excellent training opportunity for Christians to “test all things, hold fast what is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21) because it involves a revival of ancient pagan themes in science, the educational establishment, business, and politics. Sadly, it demonstrates how those themes are corrupting the scientific method that has contributed

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Why Can’t Solar Provide Abundant, Affordable Electricity?

Nuclear engineer James H. Rust, over at the Heartland Institute, has just posted a clear, concise, factual piece refuting the claim that there’s a “dirty war” to stop expansion of solar energy in the United States. I won’t get into the stuff about the “dirty war”—which is entirely bogus, and Rust demonstrates just why—but thought it

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Practically Everything You Thought You Knew about Fukushima Is Wrong

When University of Edinburgh graduate student Claire Leppold attended a lecture on the aftermath of the Fukushima Daichi nuclear accident, caused by the massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011, she expected to learn about high cancer and birth defect rates because of exposure to high radiation levels. She wrote that what she learned shocked her:

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