Introducing our New (and Not-so-New) Podcast

We’re excited to announce a new chapter for the Cornwall Alliance podcast. After several years under the title Created to Reign, the show is relaunching with a new name: Sanity Check. The change reflects something simple but important—our desire to bring clarity, reason, and careful thinking back into conversations about the environment, economics, and human flourishing. In

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AI Data Center Developers Will Finance Nuclear Energy Investment

At a time when huge AI data center electricity demands are projected to cause domestic shortages, drive up costs and overwhelm transmission grid capacities, President Trump has a better idea; namely to have them apply ingenuity and enterprise to directly power up their own projects. During his Feb. 24 State of Union Address, the president

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The Scientists Who Declared War on Half of America

This book review was originally posted at Minding the Campus, a project of the National Association of Scholars. The title I had proposed was: “The Hobbits Go to War,” but their recommendation is better. Today also represents the very rare (unprecedented?) multiple-THB posts in one day. Sorry for flooding your in-box — but it is good

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Glyphosate, Agricultural Productivity, and Food Security: A Risk Based Policy Assessment in the Context of Modern Food Systems 

Executive Summary  Glyphosate is among the most consequential agricultural technologies introduced in the past halfcentury. Its widespread adoption has reshaped weed management, reduced tillage, stabilized yields, and lowered production costs across much of global agriculture. At the same time, glyphosate has become a focal point of public controversy, driven by hazardbased classifications, litigation, and advocacy campaigns that often

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Why Climate Science Is Not Settled

The repeated claim that climate science is “settled” overlooks myriad uncertainties, competing mechanisms and computer models that miss the mark when tested against reality. Declaring finality in such a field reflects political confidence – even arrogance – not scientific maturity.  The model-reality divergence  Computer models – based on faulty premises – are the bible for the modern climate movement. This despite the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) describing climate as a “coupled,

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Science Without Skepticism Is Just Politics in a Lab Coat

The following is. a guest article by Charles Rotter. The perspective paper “Scientists as Policymakers: Greenlighting Restoration and Climate Action” is presented as a sober reflection on how scientists might better “engage” with public decision-making. What it actually offers is something far more radical and far more dangerous: a blueprint for erasing the institutional boundary

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UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for December, 2025: +0.30 deg. C

2025 was the 2nd warmest year (a distant 2nd behind 2024) in the 47-year satellite record The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for December, 2025 was +0.30 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, down from the November, 2025 value of +0.43 deg. C. (In the following plot note that the

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