The 30+ scholars—scientists, economists, theologians, and more, interviewed for Cornwall Alliance’s Greener on the Other Side: Climate Alarmism—Facts, Not Fear video series—address in this latest video the charge that they’re in the pocket of “Big Oil” or the fossil fuel industry in general. A few quotes: “The idea that I’m getting paid off by somebody else is […]
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Recently 20 scientists, firm believers in CAGW and proponents of policies to reduce it, sent a letter to the White House supporting a call by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) for criminal prosecution under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) act of scientists who disagree with them. Hello?! Anybody ever heard of the First Amendment—you
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The animal-use protest industry group, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), took another Hollywood victim when it converted the sexy Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting of Big Bang Theory fame to its cause. Sweeting joins the emotive crowd of urbanites who oppose Canadian seal hunts. Now our big neighbor to the North has a long-history of first
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The Arctic, like the rest of the world, experiences natural cycles, and some of them can be pretty radical. While most of the world enjoys a pretty stable 24-hour cycle of sunrise and sunset, with the sun visible roughly half of each day, a little longer in summer, a little shorter in winter, the Arctic
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The Senate Environment & Public Works Committee last month issued a damning 73-page report, by the Committee’s Majority Staff, exposing the widespread and corrupting use of “sue and settle” practices by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under the Obama Administration, to form and promote its policies. It’s not pleasant reading, and citizens who favor transparency, accountability,
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Mr. Obama, here are three points to consider during your Alaska trip this week: 1. Roughly 70% of Alaska is federally owned, and much of that is off-limits to any kind of economic use of natural resources. Compare that with 10% or less in most of the original 13 U.S. colonies. Instead of “helping” native
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The Old Gray Lady‘s (aka New York Times) perennial climate alarmist reporter Justin Gillis eagerly reported a new paper, “Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012-2014,” published in Geophysical Research Letters, claiming that anthropogenic global warming (AGW) might have intensified the current California drought by 15 to 20 percent. Alas, nasty facts get in the way,
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Animal rights activists and so-called animal protectionists regularly argue that the public shouldn’t buy or wear fur because it is no longer needed. Fur may have been necessary in the olden days, they concede, but for modern, civilized, and presumably technologically advanced humans, fur is a cruel and gratuitous clothing choice. The puritanical nature of
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Properly aligned morals requires that weightier matters deserve more care and justify greater umbrage when violated. If one wanted a classic example of the upending of the moral hierarchy, one need look only at the juxtaposition of two stories, Planned Parenthood’s harvesting of baby parts and the killing of Cecil, a lion in Zimbabwe. Note
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This article was originally published on Townhall.com. In a recent announcement, well known Danish children’s toy maker, LEGO, revealed it is looking for a new material to replace the oil-based plastic used in its iconic building blocks. The toymaker is creating the LEGO Sustainable Materials Center with the intention of spending $150 million,hiring 100 experts,
