To Magnify Apparent Climate Risk, Magnify Temperature Data

In the early 1990s, working partly as a freelance book editor, I had the privilege of being the main managing editor of Julian L. Simon’s (edited) The State of Humanity (Blackwell, 1995). One of my responsibilities was turning raw data from the book’s 60 authors into graphs so people could grasp them better. But the graphs […]

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Global Warming Alarmist Makes Bogus Challenge to Skeptics

The brilliant Progressives over at the Daily Kos are all atwitter about the bold wager of $10,000 offered by physicist Dr. Christopher Keating to anyone who can “prove, via the scientific method, that man-made global climate change is not occurring.” Wow! It’s put-up or shut-up time for climate skeptics like us at the Cornwall Alliance, right? Ten grand ripe for the picking!All

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Fact Sheet: Evangelicals Should be Wary of the Politicization and Bad Science of Global Warming Alarmism

Download the Fact Sheet In recent months, the news has carried a spate of stories about Christians embracing the cause of global warming. These news stories highlight some evangelical leaders who have endorsed alarmist claims in their public statements, urged political action on climate change, and even screened Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, in their

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Climate of Fear: global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence

There have been repeated claims that this past year’s hurricane activity was another sign of human-induced climate change. Everything from the heat wave in Paris to heavy snows in Buffalo has been blamed on people burning gasoline to fuel their cars, and coal and natural gas to heat, cool and electrify their homes. Yet how

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No Sure Bet: Two Replies to Andy Crouch’s “Environmental Wager”

The August 2005 issue of Christianity Today (vol. 49, no. 8, p. 66) carried an alarmist piece about global warming by Andy Crouch titled “Environmental Wager” that condemned critics of global warming alarmism and prescribed endorsement of the Kyoto Protocol to reduce CO2 emissions and mitigate global warming as a new variation on Pascal’s Wager

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