How Terrified Should We Be of Hurricane Season This Year?

Once again, as nearly every year, officials at NOAA and other agencies called for 2022 to be a “very active” hurricane season.  In its May 24 release, NOAA predicted “an “above-average hurricane activity this year — which would make it the seventh consecutive above-average hurricane season.”  It’s like the old joke that everyone’s grandkid is “above average”: for […]

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No, Hurricanes Are Not Bigger, Stronger and More Dangerous

Guest contribution by Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., formerly Professor of Environmental Studies and now director of the Sports Governance Center in the Department of Athletics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters & Climate Change and other books. Earlier this week a paper published

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The Uninhabited Mind of David Wallace-Wells

David Wallace-Wells shook up a lot of people with a “horrifying 2017 essay in New York magazine about climate change. It was an attempt to paint a very real picture of our not-too-distant future, a future filled with famines, political chaos, economic collapse, fierce resource competition, and a sun that ‘cooks us.’” Now he’s got a book

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Pray for People in Hurricane Florence’s Path—But Don’t Fall Prey to Alarmist Rhetoric

We should all be praying for those in the path of Hurricane Florence, regardless whether she turns out catastrophic or only (as hurricanes go) a relatively minor problem, and those in her path should be taking all sensible steps to shield themselves from harm, while others prepare to help quickly in the aftermath. At the

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Wealthy Countries Resilient in the Face of Extreme Weather

Since 1900 the number of deaths from natural disasters, including floods, hurricanes/cyclones, earthquakes, and tornados, has fallen dramatically, even as the number of reported occurrences of such events increased due to improved telecommunications and technologies to track and report such events, broader news coverage, and the globalization of international aid. Even as global population has

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“Climate Science” Warned Us: More & Stronger Hurricanes Coming! Climate Didn’t Get the Message

On September 9, 2005, with much of New Orleans submerged by the failure of fifty levees and flood walls after Hurricane Katrina (category 1 at landfall) dumped 8 to 10 inches of rain, former Vice President Al Gore told the Sierra Club’s National Environmental Convention and Expo in San Francisco: Ladies and gentlemen, the warnings about

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Reflections on Climate Change on the Anniversary of Super Storm Sandy

by Neil Frank and E. Calvin Beisner Super Typhoon Haiyan and the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy should remind all of us of the tragic suffering that is part of living in the post-fall world, affected by both human sin and the divine curse (Genesis 3). But is Rev. Darren A. Ferguson, of Mount Carmel Baptist

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