Over the last 200 years, after the discovery of crude oil, the world’s population has increased from 1 to 8 billion. Today, all the electricity generation options available, such as wind turbines, solar panels, nuclear power, hydropower, coal, and natural gas, depend on the products and components manufactured from crude oil to generate electricity. Image: Creative […]
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The United Nations Climate Conference begins November 30 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). More than 70,000 delegates are expected to attend from almost 200 nations. The COP28 event will emit large amounts of carbon dioxide but is unlikely to have any measurable effect on global temperatures. COP28 is the 28th meeting of the Conference
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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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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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World leaders continue experiencing a “dangerous delusion” of a global transition to “just electricity” that they believe will eliminate the use of the crude oil that made society achieve so much in a few centuries. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Crude oil is the basis of our materialistic society, as discussed in an educational and
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Let’s see just how long this auto workers’ strike lasts. It’s not really about the 46% pay raise but the 2009 Obama deal that took away cost-of-living adjustments. It’s not really about the short run, either. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash But let’s see what the auto workers get in the face of President Biden’s
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World leaders tout “green hydrogen” as an essential fuel in the renewable energy transition. Today, heavy industries use huge amounts of coal and natural gas to produce products needed by society. Governments propose to replace hydrocarbon fuels with hydrogen fuel, using hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies. But vast subsidies won’t be enough to
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