Three mainline Protestant clergy issued a statement condemning President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, saying it "violates the values and vision that are basic to Christian faith." As reported by Anglican.ink, "The Rt. Rev. Douglas J. Fisher, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts, and the Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, who serves as missioner for creation care for the diocese and for the Massachusetts Conference, United … [Read more...]
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Why Did Some U.S. Firms Support Paris Agreement?
Since well before former President Barack Obama signed onto it as an executive agreement (because he knew the Senate wouldn’t ratify it), a number of large American corporations have supported the Paris climate accord. As the time neared when President Donald Trump would announce whether he would keep his campaign promise to withdraw from it, some signed an open letter advising him not to. Many corporations are household names---Adobe, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Facebook, Gap, … [Read more...]
Cornwall Alliance Applauds Energy Independence Order
Burke, VA, March 28, 2017—“President Trump’s ‘Executive Order on Energy Independence’ will save the American people hundreds of billions of dollars every year that would have been wasted on purely symbolic efforts under former President Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’ and other regulations,” Cornwall Alliance Founder and National Spokesman E. Calvin Beisner said today. “Former President Barack Obama justified those regulations by claiming they would reduce global warming,” Beisner said. “But in … [Read more...]
How Ideologues Abuse Power in Professional Associations—Exhibit A: AMS Letter to Pruitt
By now everybody knows that the national academies of science of the world's top countries, and various professional scientific associations, and in short all people with brains firmly believe that human emissions of carbon dioxide have been the primary driver of global warming/climate change for the past half century. But what most people don't know is that those organizations' official positions on the matter rarely reflect the considered opinions of their members. They tend to be adopted … [Read more...]
Does the Trump Administration Put Science in Jeopardy?
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...]
What’s Wrong with a “Carbon” Tax?
James Baker, chief of staff to Ronald Reagan and secretary of state under George H.W. Bush, and George Schultz, secretary of state under Reagan, have endorsed a "carbon" tax plan that is just plain wrong from the git-go. Stephen Moore explains why in "The Carbon-Tax Scam," but here's the gist: Even if it succeeded in ending all United States carbon-dioxide emissions (and it's only designed to reduce, not end, them), it would fail to accomplish the end used as its justification: … [Read more...]
Caring for Creation: A Book of Good Intentions but Poor Science
As an evangelical Christian, I believe we should be good stewards of God’s planet. We should strive to reduce pollution to protect human health and the natural environment. We should explore new alternative energy sources, always seeking to maximize benefits and minimize harms. We should prioritize providing electricity for the 1.2 billion people who don’t have it—and consequently suffer high rates of disease and premature death. For these and many other reasons I applaud Mitch Hescox and … [Read more...]
Why Do @Rogues Love Darkness?
In "What The 'Rogue' EPA, NPS and NASA Twitter Accounts Teach Us About The Future Of Social," Kalev Leetaru peers inside the Pandora's box of the implications of "rogue" social media accounts---accounts that purport to express the views of people from within (or recently having left) government agencies, corporations, etc., in opposition to the official views of those agencies, corporations, etc., but the actual authors of which are not revealed. It's a frightening prospect. Before anyone … [Read more...]
EPW Chairman Introduces Cornwall Letter Supporting Pruitt EPA Nomination into Hearing Record
As I write, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt's confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee is in lunch recess. Shortly before recess, committee Chairman John Barrasso (R-WY) introduced the Cornwall Alliance's open letter supporting Pruitt into the record: I’d like to submit to the record as well, having heard that some of my Democratic colleagues have concerns that Attorney General Pruitt is not open to the finding of science, especially as it … [Read more...]
Scientists, Economists, Ethicists, other Scholars Support EPA Administrator Nominee Scott Pruitt
Burke, VA, January 16, 2017—The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation today released an Open Letter to the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee supporting the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt’s confirmation hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, January 18, 2017. “Some environmental activists are determined to prevent Mr. Pruitt’s confirmation, painting him as a ‘science denier’ or a … [Read more...]
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