A Brief History of the Cornwall Alliance—Part 4: We Come of Age

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We ended Part 3 of this history with reference to An Examination of the Scientific, Ethical, and Theological Implications of Climate Change, produced by the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance—the original name of what became the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. I don’t think any of us involved in creating it could imagine all that

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Al Gore Offers Africa Electricity by the Spoonful

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Guest column by Ken Braun An anecdote widely attributed to (but perhaps not originating with) Milton Friedman holds that the late, great Nobel Prize laureate was touring a developing nation and happened upon a public works project. To make way for the new road or canal or whatever, platoons of workers using hand shovels were laboriously

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Biden/Harris appointees to Department of Energy—Not a Bit of Energy Expertise

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On August 20 the Biden/Harris Administration announced five new appointees to the federal Department of Energy. Here are their qualifications: progressive political activism degree in political science progressive political activism degree in environmental science progressive political activism degree in education and ethnic studies progressive political activism degree in what? progressive political activism degree in political

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IPCC-proposed banishment of fossil fuels would put most of the world’s people at risk

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Oil derivatives and fuel manufactured from oil were the main reasons population rose to 8 billion. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls the AR6 Climate Change 2021 Report, just released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a “code red for humanity“ that “must sound a death knell for … fossil fuels, before they destroy

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Exposing the Media’s Climate Change Lies and Exaggerations

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For 20 years or more, dire warnings about global warming and “climate change” have taken the mass media of entertainment by storm. Every few years, climate change doomsayers have claimed that the world only has 12 years to turn the tide. They said practically the same thing 12 and 15 years ago; however, that they’re

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A Brief History of the Cornwall Alliance—Part 3: A Tree Takes Root

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As we saw in Part 2 of this brief history, the Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship didn’t work out as originally hoped. But that didn’t mean the Cornwall Declaration would lie dormant forever. David Rothbard and Craig Rucker, whom I introduced in Part 2, kept in touch with me over the next few years, encouraging

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Insurance Industry Plays on Climate Fears

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A Bloomberg News story today titled “Why Snow, Hail, and Wildfire Are Expensive for Insurance Industry” chalks up massive insurance losses this year to climate change. “Climate change is exacerbating extreme and freak weather events so rapidly that even the insurance industry is struggling to keep up,” the story says. “Late last week,” it continues, “reinsurance

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“Net Zero by 2050”: Roadmap to Conflict and Poverty

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The Biden Administration wants America to make emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases amount to “net zero”—that is, for emissions and removal of GHGs to be equal—by 2050. The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA, established in 1974 under the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development following the 1973 oil crisis to ensure that

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The Many Hopeless European Climate Change Laws

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Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT University, one of the world’s leading experts on atmospheric physics, had these extraordinary words: ‘Carbon control is a bureaucratic dream. If you control carbon, you control life’. The European Commission (EC), in its desire to control CO2 emissions, is going to – although it is not intended to – control the daily lives of European

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