If Global Warming Won’t Kill Us, Will Ocean Acidification?

As the stretch of years with no statistically significant global warming lengthens, environmentalists scratch their heads and ask, “Well, if we can’t scare people with global warming, what can we use?” And one of their stock answers has become, “Ocean acidification!” Acid, you know? Nasty stuff! That’s what very bad people throw in the faces […]

If Global Warming Won’t Kill Us, Will Ocean Acidification? Learn More »

The Problem with Naturalism

Scientific American‘s report on the awarding of this year’s Templeton Prize to Brazilian theoretical physicist and cosmologist Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College, is fascinating reading. One could wish that many climate scientists, so over-sure of themselves, would read it and take it to

The Problem with Naturalism Learn More »

… until the other comes and examines him.

Has the climate-change controversy reached a milestone? That depends in part on whether President Donald Trump follows through with his desire to appoint a President’s Committee on Climate Security (PCCS) under the National Security Council (NSC). The PCCS would be tasked with assessing the pros and cons of various perspectives on climate change—subjecting them to

… until the other comes and examines him. Learn More »

Does Fighting Global Warming Help or Hurt the Poor?

Want to “bring nothing but misery to poor people, especially in the developing world”? Simple: Just follow the advice of the international cabal of UN leaders and their organizations calling for drastic action to fight global warming. The harangue is familiar everywhere by now: Global warming will harm everybody, but it’ll harm the poor most

Does Fighting Global Warming Help or Hurt the Poor? Learn More »

The Antarctic Odyssey: Secret Colonies, Melting Ice, and Climate Fairytales

In an era of climate fearmongering, the curious case of Antarctica has more to offer than mere fairytales and could play an important role in understanding our planet’s future. Sprawling over an area of 5.5 million square miles (and nearly 11 million square miles in winter), Antarctica is a virtually uninhabited, ice-covered landmass holding 90

The Antarctic Odyssey: Secret Colonies, Melting Ice, and Climate Fairytales Learn More »

Five Reasons Why Christians Must Make Biblically Sound Earth Stewardship a Priority

1 Radical environmentalism, at its heart, is false religion. Biblical care for Creation sees God, people, and nature in proper relationship. By contrast, the core of secular environmentalism mirrors Romans 1:25, which says people “exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature, rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever.”

Five Reasons Why Christians Must Make Biblically Sound Earth Stewardship a Priority Learn More »

Do Health Risks from Mercury Justify Stringent Regulations on Coal-Fired Power Plants?

[Editor’s Note: The announcement December 27, 2018, by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that it is revising cost findings behind its Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) ignited a firestorm of complaints on the ground that mercury is a known neurotoxin that can cause brain damage in infants and young people. While that

Do Health Risks from Mercury Justify Stringent Regulations on Coal-Fired Power Plants? Learn More »

A Million Here, a Million There—Pretty Soon You’re Talking about Real Penguins

Eighty years ago, a museum curator aboard a fishing trawler in the Indian Ocean got a shock felt around the world. In a net full of mundane fish, he found one he’d never expected to see. It was a coelecanth. Why hadn’t he expected to see it? Because ichthyologists (fish scientists) believed it had gone

A Million Here, a Million There—Pretty Soon You’re Talking about Real Penguins Learn More »

Is the Case for Drastic Climate Policy a Case of Misplaced Expertise?

Jonah Goldberg, writing about climate change and climate policy (yes, there really is a difference between the two) in National Review, hit the nail on the head when he said, “expertise doesn’t necessarily transfer over from one field to another.” What he had in mind was the silliness of thinking that climate scientists, because they are

Is the Case for Drastic Climate Policy a Case of Misplaced Expertise? Learn More »

Can Space.com Teach Us Anything Useful about Climate?

I saw a Space.com article today entitled, Can Venus teach us to take climate change seriously? While Space.com writers should know quite a bit about the other planets, the article was a fount of misinformation and gross exaggeration. The obvious purpose of the article was scare us into taking increasing carbon dioxide levels seriously, following on the Fourth National Climate

Can Space.com Teach Us Anything Useful about Climate? Learn More »