Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm. New AI applications are announced daily. Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and many companies tout plans for artificial intelligence capabilities. But the AI revolution is bad news for global efforts to achieve net-zero emissions. The AI revolution is based on high-performance AI chips, which are capable of revolutionary levels of computer processing power and can sort through vast … [Read more...]
Assessing Local Legislation: Balancing Economy, Creation, and Community
The following essay won second place in our Summer 2023 Essay Writing Contest for high school and college students. The essay was submitted by highschool student Victoria Seegott. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation champions the belief that humanity is entrusted with the duty to care for the Earth and prioritize the well-being of its inhabitants. In this spirit, the essay contest offers a unique platform for high school juniors, … [Read more...]
Wind Unaffordable, Costs Common Sense
The Biden administration’s "Net Zero" carbon plan set for accomplishment by 2050 is predicated upon the assumption that America can transition away from hydrocarbons, which currently provide about 80% of our electricity, by increasing the 3% we get from wind and solar combined . . . with the vast majority of that from renewable friendly breezes. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash For starters, try to forget for a moment that wind and solar are unreliable, intermittent, … [Read more...]
Using the Cultural Mandate of Genesis 1:28 and the Ten Commandments as Basis for a Christian Ethic of Earth Stewardship
Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Introduction As recently as the 2018 Gallup poll, climate change ranked near the bottom of Americans’ environmental concerns. But that has changed. A Google search on the question “What are the largest problems facing the 21st century?” on May 15, 2023, generated a substantial number of links, including to various lists, with environmental issues, including climate change, near the top. Climate change has become a hot-button issue. It moved out of the … [Read more...]
Regulating the Texas Dairy Industry
The following essay won first place in our Summer 2023 Essay Writing Contest for high school and college students. The author, Nora Koch, earned a $1,000 scholarship to fund her studies. Robust wildlife surrounds me as I make my way through the tropical rainforests of Maua, Kenya. The aroma of thriving plant life permeates the air. Soaring banana trees tower over isolated communities of dilapidated houses. A thick layer of dirt and grime coats everything. Despite the atrocious living … [Read more...]
The Entanglement of Truth and Science: A Nobel Laureate’s Advice to Students
The following is a guest article by Ron Barmby. Dr. John Clauser is an experimental physicist and of the highest order. His 2022 Nobel Prize in physics is enough to make him one of the preeminent scientists of our times. His work confirmed the existence of quantum entanglement—that two particles once linked remain linked no matter how far apart they are pulled. A change in one linked particle still affects the other linked particle. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash A peer of … [Read more...]
The Climate War Is Over: China Won
Academia’s best-known hockey player, Michael Mann, in 2021 published a book entitled, The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet. His thesis was that climate-altering fossil fuel companies, right-wing plutocrats, and petrostates are the enemies of humanity and (by omission) that nature has no significant role in climate change. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Mann’s thesis seems to be that an army of activists who condemn the Industrial Revolution can … [Read more...]
Carbon Language Global Error
Political and business leaders, educators, and the news media endlessly talk about “carbon.” Newscasters repeatedly warn about “carbon emissions” and “carbon pollution.” States and provinces announce “zero carbon” goals. The United Nations and environmental groups push for a “low-carbon” and a “carbon-neutral” society. But instead, they should all be talking about “carbon dioxide,” not carbon. Labeling carbon dioxide “carbon” is as foolish as calling salt “chlorine.” Carbon and carbon dioxide … [Read more...]
Multi-Faith Australian Religious Leaders Demand ‘Climate Justice’ … to the Disservice of God, Human Flourishing and Science
Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist leaders in Australia “say climate change is impacting the future of religion,” ABC Radio News, Australia, reports. It never quite becomes clear just how climate change would impact the future of religion, but one certainly gets the impression that one of the chief ways is by furthering religious syncretism — the watering down, compromising, and intermixing of doctrinal distinctives in the name of cooperation with other religions. The article begins, … [Read more...]
The Population ‘Problem’ Fizzles
Each year, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has a dinner in Washington, D.C., honoring the economist Julian Simon, who died in 1998. Simon was a rare optimist in the fields of population and natural resources. He disagreed with most environmentalists of his day (especially in the 1980s through 1990s). They feared passionately that the growing population would overwhelm agriculture and industry and that the world would run out of natural resources such as oil and minerals. Instead, … [Read more...]
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