The title of this review may be confusing considering that it is an assessment of the book Following Jesus in a Warming World: A Christian Call to Climate Action by Kyle Meyaard-Schaap (IVP, Downers Grove, IL, February 2023). However, “Need We Fear Another Ice Age?” is the title of a Christian tract written by Walter Lang and […]
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The following essay by Lucy Buttram won third place in our Summer 2023 Essay Writing Contest for high school and college students. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Does our city council see us? For eight years, my neighbors and I have asked this question—and worried. We watch helplessly as our bike paths are replaced by
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The following essay by Diego Vargas-Godoy won an honorable mention in our Summer 2023 Essay Writing Contest for high school and college students. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash In the complex realm of governance, legislation stands as a pivotal force that guides the trajectory of societies. At this juncture where policy decisions bear far-reaching consequences,
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The biggest economic push for electric vehicles (EVs) appears to be to move them out of dealer inventory lots despite government subsidy perks. EVs are now some of the slowest sellers on dealership lots. In September, it took retailers over two months to sell a plug-in, compared with around a month for gas-powered vehicles and only
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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Image: Created Commons under UnsplashFor decades, the public has been told climate researchers understand and have accurately modeled “climate sensitivity,” defined as the average global temperature rise we should expect following a doubling of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere compared to pre-industrial levels. Yet, climate models routinely run too hot, both hindcasting (unless their outputs
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