Life in New Delhi: India’s Visible Economic Fruit

Winter is approaching, and the mercury will soon drop in my new home of New Delhi, India, but not its economic growth. Delhi is a prime example of the impact of India’s rapid economic development. Skyrocketing employment makes it a magnet for the impoverished from surrounding states. Over the past three decades, India adopted a […]

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Why the skeptics reject ‘human-induced’ climate change

As the new school year gets underway, here’s some reflection on what may be the current atmosphere of the academic scientific community. Certain campus professors and theoreticians have cast their lofty claims of climate catastrophe out of the comfort of the credulous classroom and faculty lounge and on to the critical community of the wary

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A Film that Could Revolutionize Your Whole Perception of How to Help the Poor

Nearly thirty years ago I published my first book on Christian economics, Prosperity and Poverty: The Compassionate Use of Resources in a World of Scarcity. The last three chapters dealt with the nature and causes of poverty and how churches and individuals can help the poor. I said some fairly controversial things then about how

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The Trump Climate Dump: Why It Doesn’t Matter if Even 100% of Scientists Agree on Global Warming

Given current technologies, it makes no sense to destroy $100 Trillion in wealth this century for an unmeasurable reduction in warming. The more efficiently we can do those things, the greater humanity prospers. Affordable energy is part of that efficiency. Everything humans do requires energy. Everything. But when human prosperity suffers, people die. So, can

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Climate Science, Energy Policy, Poverty, and Christian Faith: How do they Connect?

(Editors Note: Click graphs to enlarge) In the March 16, 2016, issue of Forbes astrophysicist Ethan Siegel’s article “The Next Great Global Warming ‘Hiatus’ is Coming!” sought to refute skeptics of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) by arguing that the apparent lack of statistically significant global warming over roughly the last 18 or 19 years

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Why You Should Mourn Implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement

The climate agreement reached in Paris last December will become effective on Earth Day, (Friday, April 22) with a ceremony at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. We’ll all hear of heroic world leaders who joined together in Paris to ensure the planet’s survival. The Obama administration will try to enforce the agreement

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