The American public fears some effects of climate change, but not enough to raise economy-crippling legislation to stop it. Gallup’s most recent poll on the subject shows that on a list of issues Americans consider important, climate change consistently comes in last or close to it. Although 65% believe it is happening, or will happen in their lifetimes, only 36% believe it will affect them significantly. These numbers are down from 2008 highs of 75% and 40%. The Cornwall Alliance has … [Read more...]
Climate Hubs Stepping Stone To Broader Climate Legislation
The Obama Administration decided last month that it would placate the “Green” lobby by telling our nation’s farmers how to do their job. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the creation of seven Regional Climate Hubs for Risk Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change. These Hubs match climate change knowledge with local farmers using current networks including local extension agents. This announcement by the Obama Administration was a stepping stone to this month’s announcement of … [Read more...]
Obama Budget Includes Wish List for Climate Change Spending
While the United States is in debt $17.5 trillion, the Obama Administration proposes a budget that increases spending! Tuesday, March 4, President Obama revealed his Fiscal Year 2015 Budget, his wish-list for next year. It has already been derided by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, but that doesn’t make it irrelevant. It signals the goals of the Obama Administration. Included in the $3.9 trillion budget was $10.8 billion earmarked for climate change-related initiatives in … [Read more...]
Europe Flees Economy-Destroying Green Initiatives While Obama Presses On
C02 reduction regulations and subsidies for “green energy” are destroying the European economy, and the United States is next. But Europe’s waking up. After years of trying to lead the push to go green, it has turned around and begun steep cuts in its climate protection goals. Why? To save member states’ economies. For example, Germany, one of the strongest proponents of environmental regulations in the European Union (EU), has seen energy prices soar, making its prices the highest in Europe. … [Read more...]
How the Media Will Spin the Next IPCC Report – Why the Spin Is Wrong
It is extremely likely that the most oft-cited statement from the “Summary for Policymakers” (SPM) of the forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be: It is extremely likely that human influence on climate caused more than half of the increase in global average surface temperature from 1951–2010. Mainstream media and global warming enthusiasts will latch onto that. With little or no awareness of either its textual or its historical … [Read more...]
What’s Incredible? Learning to Read Science Articles with a Critical Eye
Almost every day, we are assaulted with “studies” purporting to have found correlations, connections, links, or ties between causes and effects. In 1998 Dr. Andrew Wakefield claimed that exposure to MMR vaccine causes autism. That assertion still reverberates across Europe and the U.S., but how reliable is Wakefield’s study? What about the claim that increased carbon dioxide emissions are causing and will continue to cause global temperature to rise, wreaking havoc with ecosystems all over … [Read more...]
Cornwall Senior Fellow Blasts Global Warming Alarmism in Senate Hearing
Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Dr. Roy Spencer testified July 18 before the Senate Subcommittee on Environment and Public Works in a hearing on global warming. “The lack of statistically significant warming in the last 15 years,” Spencer told the committee via his written testimony, “… is sometimes glossed over with the claim that the global temperature record has a number of examples of no warming (or even cooling) over fifteen year periods. But this claim is disingenuous, because the … [Read more...]
Does Caring for “the Least of These” Demand Fighting Global Warming?
Recently, my fellow evangelical scientists and academics sent a letter to the United States Congress urging immediate legislation on climate change. In an effort to care for the planet—God’s second greatest gift to humanity—they argue that our uncontrolled use of fossil fuels will disproportionately affect the poor, the vulnerable, and the oppressed. I applaud their concern for the environment and for those in defense of whom Jesus commanded us to be especially diligent. But their call to … [Read more...]
Science Class? Or Religious Humanist Recruiting Ground?
Where is Dr. Mauerbry when we need her? Thirty-seven years ago, in a freshman college course on physical anthropology, the professor required every student to write a term paper on a topic of his choice. I said I’d like to write on scientific evidences against Darwinian, naturalistic evolution. “This is a science course, not a religion course,” she replied. “You can’t do that.” “Who said anything about religion?” I replied. “I want to write about scientific evidences.” She insisted that all … [Read more...]
Theism, Darwinism, and Environmentalism in a Lab Coat: Next Generation Science Standards Coming to YOUR State Soon!
Last month the Kansas State Board of Education voted to make Kansas the third state (following Rhode Island and Kentucky) to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The “voluntary” (until adopted by state boards of education) NGSS are the brainchild of Achieve, Inc., a non-profit organization founded in 1996 by various state governors and business leaders and a major promoter of the controversialand expensive new Common Core Standards. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education … [Read more...]
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