Fossil Fuels, Enemy or Friend? Divine Design in the Carbon Cycle

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Despite disagreements on some specific questions, I was glad to get acquainted with David Jenkins through his article Are Climate Skeptics Ignoring God’s Design? It’s always heartening to encounter another admirer of four of my favorite conservative thinkers, Edmund Burke (1729–1797), T.S. Eliot (1888–1965), Richard Weaver (1910–1963), and Russell Kirk (1918–1994)—the last of whom mentored me through […]

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Can Faith and Science Cooperate? A Meteorologist Appeals to Scripture About Global Warming

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Recently Certified Consulting Meteorologist Anthony J. Sadar, a Contributing Writer for the Cornwall Alliance, committed an unpardonable sin for scientists: he appealed to the Bible as support for his understanding about manmade global warming. Yes, he gave some evidence from temperature measurements, too, but his primary argument was this: … rather than having faith that God

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Critic: Cornwall Alliance Is “in Denial” about Climate Change and Lacks Credibility

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Every once in a while we get unfriendly emails. This one came last week: I am very disappointed to see such a lack of credibility relating to climate change in your organization. It is arguably the single biggest threat to the planet and to dealing with the issue of poverty. The fact that your organization

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God, Rush, and Global Warming

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Recently on his nationwide talk show, host Rush Limbaugh said, “If you believe in God, then intellectually you cannot believe in manmade global warming.” Two evangelical climate scientists took him to task in The Christian Post. “Rush Limbaugh doesn’t think we exist. In other words that evangelical scientists cannot subscribe to the evidence of global warming,” they

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How the Media Will Spin the Next IPCC Report – Why the Spin Is Wrong

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It is extremely likely that the most oft-cited statement from the “Summary for Policymakers” (SPM) of the forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be: It is extremely likely that human influence on climate caused more than half of the increase in global average surface temperature from 1951–2010. Mainstream media and global

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Chicken Little Turns Her Gaze from Sky to Sea: New Alarms about Sea-Level Rise

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Okay, it’s official: rising seas will swamp 1,400 low-lying U.S. cities. It’s got to be true! USA Today says so: “Study: Sea-level rise threatens 1,400 U.S. cities” The UK Guardian says so: “Climate study predicts a watery future for New York, Boston and Miami” The Detroit Free Press says so: “Sea-level rise threatens 1,400 U.S. cities, study says” Huffington Post says

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Cornwall Senior Fellow Blasts Global Warming Alarmism in Senate Hearing

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Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Dr. Roy Spencer testified July 18 before the Senate Subcommittee on Environment and Public Works in a hearing on global warming. “The lack of statistically significant warming in the last 15 years,” Spencer told the committee via his written testimony, “… is sometimes glossed over with the claim that the global temperature

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‘Evangelical Scientists and Academics’ Mistaken in Urging Congress to Act on Climate

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  Climatologist Dr. David Legates’s response  to the letter from “evangelical scientists and academics” urging Congress to immediate action to fight global warming by reducing fossil fuel use points out some of its factual inaccuracies and the harms that would be done by acting on its advice. It’s also interesting to look at the letter as

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Does Caring for “the Least of These” Demand Fighting Global Warming?

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Recently, my fellow evangelical scientists and academics sent a letter to the United States Congress urging immediate legislation on climate change. In an effort to care for the planet—God’s second greatest gift to humanity—they argue that our uncontrolled use of fossil fuels will disproportionately affect the poor, the vulnerable, and the oppressed. I applaud their concern for

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