Cornwall Alliance Founder and National Spokesman Writes Letter to Florida Governor Rick Scott Opposing Pressure for Urgent Action in Florida to Fight Global Warming

Cornwall Alliance Founder and National Spokesman Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, a Florida resident, wrote a letter to Florida Governor Rick Scott opposing pressure for urgent action in Florida to fight global warming. His letter, dated July 28, 2014, began: Grace and peace to you in Christ Jesus. I live in Pembroke Pines, Florida, and am […]

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Cornwall on the Road: Heartland’s ICCC-9 and FreedomFest

Two Cornwall Alliance scholars spoke to an avid audience of over 650 last week at the 9th International Conference on Climate Change (of which the Cornwall Alliance was a cosponsor), and both also received awards. Senior Fellow Dr. Roy Spencer, Principal Research Scientist in Climatology for the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the

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Climate Consensus? Nonsense!

So, someone privately messaged us saying her friend had posted this article, and she (who messaged us) wondered how we’d respond. Okay, we give up. We’ll never persuade people like Slate.com’s Phil Plait. Not if this article, and this and this typify his thought processes. His failure to dig a little deeper, as any good journalist should (which suggests how few good

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Lying with Statistics: “The National Climate Assessment” Falsely Hypes Ice Loss in Greenland and Antarctica

How fast are Greenland and Antarctica losing ice? If you trust the National Climate Assessment (NCA), you’ll think, “Very fast!” And that’s intentional. The aim is to provoke fear so the American public will support the Obama administration’s aim to spend $Trillions fighting global warming. Here’s how the NCA (in Appendix 4, FAQ-L) depicts the

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Two Cornwall Scholars to Receive Awards at International Conference on Climate Change

Dr. Roy W. Spencer, a Senior Fellow and Advisor of the Cornwall Alliance, and Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, Founder and National Spokesman, are among ten people who will receive awards for their contributions to debate over the science, economics, politics, and ethics of climate change and climate policy at the Ninth International Conference on Climate

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Global Warming Alarmist Makes Bogus Challenge to Skeptics

The brilliant Progressives over at the Daily Kos are all atwitter about the bold wager of $10,000 offered by physicist Dr. Christopher Keating to anyone who can “prove, via the scientific method, that man-made global climate change is not occurring.” Wow! It’s put-up or shut-up time for climate skeptics like us at the Cornwall Alliance, right? Ten grand ripe for the picking!All

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Climate Cultists: Has the desperate global warming crusade reached its Waterloo?

Cornwall Note: Published in the Weekly Standard, Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Dr. Steven Hayward hits it out of the park. (Be sure to click through to read pages 2 and 3.) As always, Steve has done his homework–and put things very clearly. After reading this, in its entirety, you’ll almost certainly know the science of climate change,

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“Climate Science”? Or Irrational Thuggery

When Dr. Lennart Bengtsson, one of the world’s leading meteorologists who had for years warned people of dangerous, manmade global warming, began to publish his doubts because observed temperatures weren’t rising anywhere near as fast as the computer climate models predicted, some of his former “comrades in alarms” got upset. When the veteran Swedish climate scientist agreed

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End Federal Ethanol Policy’s Harm to the Poor and the Environment

To borrow a phrase from another debate (where it is misused), the science is settled. So is the economics. As Peter Suderman points out, the federal Environmental Protection Agency proposes reducing from 18.5 billion to 15.2 billion gallons the amount of renewable fuel (essentially, ethanol, almost all from corn) it requires refiners to mix into total U.S. gasoline

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What’s Wrong with Latest National Climate Assessment? Dr. Roy Spencer Sounds Off

The national media have been abuzz since the release of the Obama Administration’s highly politicized National Climate Assessment (NCA) Tuesday. A typical report, in USA Today, began this way:  Devastating droughts in the Southwest, ruinous floods in New York City, killer wildfires in Colorado, intense heat waves in the Plains: These are the some of the disasters that are

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