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“Fact checkers” who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones

by E. Calvin Beisner

Suppose I told you that Santa Claus lived in Santa Barbara. Now suppose you reported in an article that I told you Santa Claus lived in Santa Barbara. Now suppose some "fact checker" slammed you for falsely saying Santa Claus lived in Santa Barbara.Would the "fact checker" be right?Obviously not. Because you accurately reported what I told you.Now, if instead you had simply said, "Santa Claus lives in Santa Barbara," you'd have been factually wrong (since, as everyone knows, he lives at the … [Read more...]

Dated: September 12, 2019


Filed Under: Bridging Humanity and the Environment, Climate Consensus, Environmental Education, Global Warming Science, Post-Normal Science

Why You MUST Read Joe Bastardi’s The Climate Chronicles

by E. Calvin Beisner

The 38th through 41st chapters of the Book of Job are among the most majestic, awe-inspiring passages in all literature, inside and outside the Bible. I cannot read them and not feel small, humbled by the omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience of God. They record questions God hurls rapid-fire, “out of the whirlwind,” at Job to impress on him his utter inability to control or even to explain the day-to-day events of the world. Here are a few, from Job 38:4–20: Where were you when I laid … [Read more...]

Dated: March 10, 2018

Tagged With: Joe Bastardi, The Climate Chronicles
Filed Under: Bridging Humanity and the Environment, Climate Consensus, Global Warming Science, Post-Normal Science, Religion & Science, Scientific Method

Protect Endangered Species on Valentine’s Day?

by E. Calvin Beisner

Valentine's Day. A day for lovers. But according to the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), it could be a very bad day for biodiversity. That's because, so goes the argument, what lovers (heterosexual lovers, anyway) do---not just on Valentine's Day but all year long---threatens to increase human population. And, as everyone knows, growing human population leads to more species extinctions. The CBD, citing Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson, claims that "30,000 species per year (or three … [Read more...]

Dated: February 9, 2018

Tagged With: Aaron Wildavsky, Assessing the Empirical Basis of the Biodiversity Crisis, Center for Biological Diversity and condoms, Disappearing Species and the Absence of Data, E.O. Wilson, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Julian Simon, sixth great extinction, Tropical Deforestation and Species Extinction, Valentine's Day and condoms
Filed Under: Biodiversity & Endangered Species, Bridging Humanity and the Environment, Environmental Organizations, Population, Post-Normal Science

Why Are Older Scientists More Likely to Doubt Climate Alarmism?

by E. Calvin Beisner

Back in 1984, Richard Lamm, then Democratic Governor of Colorado, gained infamy for having said the terminally ill elderly have "a duty to die and get out of the way." Such disrespect for age persists among Progressives. Bill Nye "the Science Guy," a major proponent of global warming alarmism, blames climate skepticism on age. "Climate change deniers, by way of example, are older. It's generational," Nye told the Los Angeles Times, adding, "We're just going to have to wait for those people … [Read more...]

Dated: July 20, 2017

Tagged With: Bill Nye, Climate Models, Climate Science, Myanna Lahsen, Richard Lamm
Filed Under: Bridging Humanity and the Environment, Global Warming Science, Post-Normal Science

Does the Trump Administration Put Science in Jeopardy?

by E. Calvin Beisner

It's hard to imagine a more thoroughly ignorant statement than this: “The discipline of science is one where the facts, once they are peer-reviewed and published in scientific journals, are fixed. They’re not open to interpretation, or at least not much.” That's the opinion of Jeffrey Kluger and Justin Worland, writing in "How a war on science could hurt the U.S.---and its citizens." in Time magazine. The truth, of course, for these two apparent neophytes to science, is quite the … [Read more...]

Dated: February 26, 2017

Tagged With: climate change deniers, climate deniers, denialism, how a war on science could hurt the u.s., How a war on science could hurt the u.s.--and its citizens, Jeffrey Kluger, Justin Worland, Paradigm Shift, science deniers, scientific revolutions, Thomas Kuhn
Filed Under: Bridging Humanity and the Environment, Climate Consensus, Global Warming Science, Post-Normal Science

Who Does John Tierney Think He Is to Challenge Chris Mooney about “Science Denial”?

by E. Calvin Beisner

Leftwing environmentalist Washington Post columnist Chris Mooney has made something of a cottage industry out of lampooning what he considers conservatives' "science denial" in four books. Count 'em: The Republican War on Science, 2005 Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming, 2007 Unscientific America---How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, 2009 (with Sheril Kirshenbaum, who holds Ph.D.'s graduate degrees in meteorology and climatology marine … [Read more...]

Dated: November 30, 2016

Tagged With: and the Battle over Global Warming, Chris Mooney, climate deniers, John Tierney, Politics, Republican War on Science, science deniers, Storm World: Hurricanes, The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science---and Reality, Unscientific America---How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future
Filed Under: Bridging Humanity and the Environment, Climate Consensus, Global Warming Science, Post-Normal Science

How are Climate Alarmists Like Icarus?

by E. Calvin Beisner

In Greek mythology, the god Icarus tries, with his father Daedalus, to escape from Crete by flying, using wings Daedalus made from wax and feathers. Proudly ignoring his father's warning not to fly too close to the sun lest the wax in the wings melt, Icarus did so and fell into the sea. Ever since then, Icarus has been synonymous with hubris---a foolish combination of pride and over-confidence. Michael Hart, Professor Emeritus and inaugural holder of the Simon Reisman chair in trade policy at … [Read more...]

Dated: August 23, 2016

Tagged With: Hubris The Troubled Science Economics and Politics of Climate Change, Michael Hart
Filed Under: Bridging Humanity and the Environment, Climate Policy, Politics & Law, Post-Normal Science, Religion & Ethics

Who Are the Real Science Deniers?

by E. Calvin Beisner

So you think of science (or maybe I should say “science”?) as a solid, objective, trustworthy activity? Certainly a whole lot more credible than, say, philosophy, or theology, or fortune telling? Before I go on, let me assure you that I value science (without the scare quotes) a great deal. (Philosophy and theology, too—but not fortune telling!) But today a lot of what goes by the name of science deserves the scare quotes. And that should scare us, for a lot of reasons, because it means we’re … [Read more...]

Dated: August 11, 2016

Tagged With: "Big Science is broken", "Scientific Regress", "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False", John P.A. Ioannidis, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, Peer Review, Post-Normal Science, science deniers, William A. Wilson
Filed Under: Biodiversity & Endangered Species, Climate Consensus, Post-Normal Science

How Theology Can, and Should, Contribute to Scientific and Public Discourse about Anthropogenic Global Warming

by E. Calvin Beisner

  A paper presented to the Round Table on Theology, Climate Change, and Politics, University of Western Ontario, May 29, 2012 Paleoanthropologist and philosopher Loren Eiseley (1907–1977), who though religious in the tradition of American Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau was certainly no orthodox Christian theist, on reflecting on the kind of soil in which science could flourish, wrote, “In one of those strange permutations of which history yields … [Read more...]

Dated: May 13, 2016

Tagged With: Al Gore, Alfred North Whitehead, Andrew Dickson White, Charles Thaxton, Climate Models, deconstructionism, Eva Kunseler, history of science, History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Jerome Ravetz, John William Draper, Karl Popper, Loren Eisley, Lynn White Jr., Mike Hulme, Nancy Pearcey, philosophy of science, Pierre Duhem, Post-Normal Science, Postmodernism, resacralizing nature, Richard Lindzen, Rodney Stark, Roy W. Spencer, Sallie McFague, science and faith, science and religion, Silvio Funtowicz, Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis, The Soul of Science, Thomas Kuhn, Thomas Torrance
Filed Under: Climate & Energy, Climate Policy, Environmental Religion, Post-Normal Science, Religion & Science

Finding Nemo Suffocated?

by E. Calvin Beisner

One hardly knows where to begin in assessing the sanity of the recent claim that "climate change" (aka dangerous manmade global warming renamed to hide the fact that far less warming is happening than predicted) could suffocate---yes, suffocate!---sea creatures by reducing ocean oxygen levels. The scary story comes mainly from popular reports. Take, for example, how blogger Cat DiStasio ("a writer, storyteller, and community architect" who "holds a B.A. in Ethnic, Gender, and Labor … [Read more...]

Dated: May 2, 2016

Tagged With: Cat DiStasio, Chris Mooney, climate change could suffocate the pacific ocean in less than 20 years, climate modelers, Climate Models, Finding forced trends in oceanic oxygen, global warming could deplete the oceans' oxygen, Inhabitat blog, Myanna Lahsen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, seductive simulations, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Filed Under: Bridging Humanity and the Environment, Global Warming Science, Post-Normal Science

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May 23, 2025 – Grand Rapids, MI

GR.Church, 4525 Stauffer Avenue Southeast, Grand Rapids, MI 49508

Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, Cornwall Alliance President, and Steve Goreham, Cornwall Alliance Board Member, will hold a symposium on Sustainable Energy, Climate Change, and the costs to YOUR life.  For tickets and more information, click HERE.

June 18-21, 2025–Dallas, TX

Cornwall Alliance will be a host of the Association of Classical Christian Schools’ (ACCS) annual Repairing the Ruins conference in Dallas, TX, and will have an exhibit booth.

Details and registration can be found HERE.

September 19-20–Arlington, VA

Dr Beisner will represent the Cornwall Alliance at the fall meeting of the Philadelphia Society and will have a literature table.

Attendance is for Society members and invited guests only. To inquire about an invitation, email Dr. Cal Beisner: Calvin@cornwallalliance.org.

September 26-27– Lynchburg, VA

Dr. Beisner will be speaking at the Christian Education Initiative Annual Summit, “Advancing Christ’s Kingdom Through Biblical Worldview Education.” 

Details and registration can be found HERE.

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