Fossil fuels and fertilizers: a pairing that feeds the world

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Amid Earth Day’s impassioned calls to save the planet for future generations, a disquieting irony emerges: Efforts to eradicate fossil fuels – a linchpin of modern agro-industrial systems – risk severing the very supply chains that make global food security possible.  From famine to abundance: green revolution Contemporary food production sustains a global populace of approximately […]

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Jesus the Tekton

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Timber Framing, Poetic Knowledge, and the Curse of Sin We stood at the ridge marking our property line, admiring our neighbor’s mature forest of mixed hardwoods and looking back with not a little distaste at the tangle of vines, thorns, and immature saplings on our side of the line — the mess from which we

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Spencer vs. Schmidt: My Response to RealClimate.org Criticisms

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EN: Dr. Roy Spencer serves thoughtfully on the Cornwall Alliance Board. What follows is a response to Gavin Schmidt’s blog post at RealClimate.org entitled Spencer’s Shenanigans in which he takes issue with my claims in Global Warming: Observations vs. Climate Models. As I read through his criticism, he seems to be trying too hard to refute my claims

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Why Not to Worry about Farming’s Contribution to Global Warming

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For decades the primary way environmentalists concerned about manmade global warming have advocated to slow it has been to reduce human emissions of the “greenhouse gas” carbon dioxide (mainly from burning coal, oil, and natural gas for energy). Lately they have focused increasingly on contributions from two other “greenhouse gases,” primarily from agriculture—methane (CH4) from

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Here’s a Real Superhero for Your Kids to Imitate!

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Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Billions of people owe him thanks. Hardly any have heard of him. He worked patiently, tirelessly, in dirt and grime, unknown to almost everyone. But he’s one of the most important people who’ve ever lived. Of models I hope my grandkids will follow, he’s among the top. Not that they’d

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Sri Lanka: Canary in the Environmentalist Coal Mine

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Last year the Cornwall Alliance reported on our blog that Sri Lanka was headed for serious trouble. Now, sadly, our prediction is coming true. The Associated Press (AP) calls Sri Lanka “a country hurtling towards bankruptcy, with hardly any money to import gasoline, milk, cooking gas and toilet paper.” In late June its prime minister

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Can Green Energy Cause a Global Food Shortage?

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China is one of the world’s largest food producers. Recently an acute power shortage there reduced food output. This sent markets into panic. Severe global food shortages and increased prices could follow. What caused China’s power shortage? Over-reliance on renewable energy. It led to insufficient and unreliable electricity generation. That harmed domestic food production and

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