Climate & Energy – Page 160 – Cornwall Alliance

Apr 10 2008

Why the UN’s ‘Developed Countries Should Pay’ Theory Is Flawed

By Indur M. Goklany / April 10, 2008

[A]lthough greenhouse gas emissions can be blamed on nations based on the location of emission activities, these emissions are the effluvia of civilization and all its activities. In today’s interconnected world, economic activity in one country helps provide livelihoods and incomes for many inhabitants elsewhere, and vice versa. A substantial portion of economic growth […]

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Apr 7 2008

Norman Borlaug: Still Feeding the World

By Paul Driessen / April 7, 2008

Norman Borlaug just turned 94 – and is still going strong. During the “Eat This” segment of their docu-comedy series BS, Penn Jillette beat Teller in a round of their “Greatest Person in History” card game. Penn needed just one card: Norman Borlaug. This Iowa farm boy and University of Minnesota agriculture graduate lived Thomas

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Mar 24 2008

Peer-Reviewed Research Suggests Very Little Warming from CO2

By E. Calvin Beisner / March 24, 2008

A year-old article in Idõjárás: Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service is suddenly getting attention in the meteorological community. And it deserves it. By Hungarian meteorologist Ferenc M. Miskolczi, the peer-reviewed article uses rigorous mathematical and physical analysis to re-estimate climate sensitivity–that is, the amount of warming to be expected from doubled atmospheric concentration

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Mar 24 2008

Check Out Sunspot Record for Yourself

By E. Calvin Beisner / March 24, 2008

Increasing numbers of scientists are predicting that a quieting Sun will lead to global cooling here on Earth. Here is a fairly typical picture of the Sun, courtesy of the University of Wisconsin, showing lots of sunspots, on March 29, 2001: Here’s a more recent image, courtesy of NASA, for March 24, 2008: You can

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Mar 24 2008

How Not To Measure Temperature: Los Angeles

By Anthony Watts / March 24, 2008

[Editor’s note: This is REALLY FUN READING. Don’t miss it. It explains creatively, with good humor but deadly serious, one among hundreds of examples of the kinds of actions that taint temperature records not just in America but all around the world.–ECB] This is the city. Los Angeles, California. I study weather stations here. I

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Mar 20 2008

My Nobel Moment and Global Climate Change

By John Christy P.HD / March 20, 2008

I’m sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see. Rather, I see a reliance on climate models (useful but never “proof”) and the

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Mar 17 2008

Biofuels Forcing World to Ration Food Aid

By Dennis T. Avery / March 17, 2008

The World Food Program is preparing to ration food aid for the world’s hungriest poor. Why? Primarily because we’re burning food in our automobiles. The rich-country mandates for biofuels have doubled and tripled world food prices in less than three years. The World Food Program’s costs are rising by millions of dollars per week and

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Mar 15 2008

Hey, Nobel Prize Winners, Answer Me This

By Roy W. Spencer / March 15, 2008

As a climate scientist, I would like to see some answers to a few basic global warming science questions which I’m sure the U.N.’s Ministry of Global Warming Truth (also known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC) can handle. After all, since they are 90% confident that recent global warming is manmade, they

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Mar 10 2008

Seminary Student’s Climate Change Project is not SBC’s

By Baptist Press / March 10, 2008

Reprinted with permission of the Baptist Press* WASHINGTON (BP)—Jonathan Merritt, a 25-year-old student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., captured widespread media attention March 10 in releasing a statement titled “A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change.” The so-called “Southern Baptist” statement is not an initiative of the Southern

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Mar 7 2008

Conference Culminates in Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change

By E. Calvin Beisner / March 7, 2008

Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, March 7, 2008 Scientists, economists, and policy experts gathered for the International Conference on Climate Change in New York City this week joined in issuing the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change following the conference. The Declaration reads: “Global warming” is not a global crisis We, the scientists and

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