Why One Conservative, Evangelical Republican’s Case for Climate Alarm Fails—Part 2

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Yesterday I began a multi-part critique of a recent blog post by Evangelical Environmental Network board chairman Scott Rodin titled “As a Conservative, Evangelical Republican, Why Climate Change Can’t Be True (Even Though It Is).” In that piece I pointed out that scientific data point the opposite direction from where Rodin thinks they do. I also […]

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New Observational Evidence Supports Old “Infrared Iris” Theory

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About seven years ago I read a fascinating paper by Roy Spencer et al. that argued that clouds respond to Earth’s surface temperatures in ways that moderate them–cooling the surface in response to warming, warming it in response to cooling. It led me to an earlier paper by Richard Lindzen that argued that, at least in

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World’s Poor Desperately Need Abundant, Affordable, Reliable Energy

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Cornwall’s “Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change” drove home multiple scientific and economic reasons for Pope Francis to send Ban Ki-Moon and Jeffrey Sachs packing last Tuesday. But most important is this: The world’s poor desperately need abundant, affordable, reliable energy, and Sachs and Ban would deprive them of it. Pope Francis should

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The Great Pause Lengthens to 18 Years 4 Months

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There’s been essentially zero trend, calculated by the least squares regression method (the most relevant), in global average temperature as measured by the satellites, in 18 years 4 months. None of the computer climate models came even remotely close to simulating this. Consequently they’re wrong. Since they’re wrong, they leave no rational basis to fear

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We Pray for Religious Leaders to Understand the Science and Economics of Climate Change and Energy Policy

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Heavenly Father, I pray for religious leaders like Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, who with the best of intentions are urging their followers to embrace global warming alarmism, thinking that by so doing they will help protect the poor. Lord, please open their eyes to the strong scientific evidence that natural

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Attacking fossil fuels doesn’t help the poor

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In the debate over climate change, as in most things, it makes sense for politicians to appeal to a higher power. To wit: President Obama recently sent Environment Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy to visit the Vatican. Her mission was to convince papal officials, who are currently drafting a climate-change-focused encyclical for Pope Francis, that the president’s

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Castrate All Boys at Age Ten to Save the Planet?

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A friend posted on Facebook responses she had received when she announced she was pregnant with her second child. “Already?!” “Was this pregnancy an accident?” Reading many of them made me sad. Some chided her for having her children so close together, others for having them when she’s so young. (But she’s in her mid-twenties

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