Why “Green Energy” Isn’t “Clean Energy”—or a Good Substitute for Fossil Fuels

Remember President Obama’s “Clean Power Plan”? It aimed to reduce global warming (aka climate change) by cutting American emissions of carbon dioxide from electricity generation. It never got very far, and the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) killed it. But now President Biden has his own version. He announced his “Energy Efficiency and Clean

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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,

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Snarky—But Right

Okay, so most of the time here at the Cornwall Alliance we try to keep our language entirely civil, to avoid both formal and informal fallacies, and just stick to true premises and valid inferences to support our conclusions. Rational, yes. Entertaining? Well, not always. And in today’s America, lots of people—at least if their

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DiCaprio’s Titanic Failure: Did “Before the Flood” Sink on Maiden Voyage?

Early in Leonardo DiCaprio’s Before the Flood, which aired Sunday night on the National Geographic Channel, we see a clip of DiCaprio speaking before the U.N. General Assembly, saying, “I stand before you not as an expert.” That’s the most credible line in the movie. And the least credible may be one that follows almost

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John Kerry, Refrigerants, Global Warming, and Isis—What Did He Say, and Is It True?

Various news sources had a heyday when Secretary of State John Kerry made comments July 22 about HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons), the chemicals used in many air conditioners and refrigerators around the world, calling them a major risk because they promote global warming. Conservative media tended to trumpet the news as one more instance of a patently

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