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February 8, 2010

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The Cornwall Alliance is a coalition of clergy, theologians, religious leaders, scientists, academics, and policy experts committed to bringing a balanced Biblical view of stewardship to the critical issues of environment and development. The Cornwall Alliance fully supports the principles espoused in the Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship, and is seeking to promote those principles in the discussion of various public policy issues including population and poverty, food, energy, water, endangered species, habitat, and other related topics.
Press Releases
Leading Evangelical Experts Call Global Warming Policies “Destructive,” “Detrimental to the Poor”
New Study: Global warming alarmism is
based on biased science, sloppy economics, and misguided theology

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 – (Washington, D.C.) As President Barack Obama prepares to join other leaders in Copenhagen to discuss climate change policy, the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation prepares to release a major study that calls into question the need for any climate negotiations.   CA

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Evangelicals Say Poor, Minorities Will Be Hardest Hit By Climate Legislation
Religious Coalition Calls On Congress To Care For “The Least Of These”

“It’s a tax on the poor. The poor spend a much higher portion of their income on home energy, transportation, and necessities—like groceries, clothing, and housing costs—than the wealthy. Cap-and-trade will make all of those things more expensive.”   CA

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Articles
An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming

As governments consider policies to fight alleged man-made global warming, evangelical leaders have a responsibility to be well informed, and then to speak out. CA

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A Renewed Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor

The world is in the grip of an idea: that burning fossil fuels to provide affordable, abundant energy is causing global warming that will be so dangerous that we must stop it by reducing our use of fossil fuels, no matter the cost.

Is that idea true?

We believe not.
 CA

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Cornwall Stewardship Agenda

God calls us to steward creation, but presently much environmental advocacy and activism contradict sound theology and sound science. In response to this, a diverse task force representing a wide range of the theological, scientific and economic disciplines has been brought together to craft the Cornwall Stewardship Agenda. This agenda is designed to flesh out the broad principles of the 2000 Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship (endorsed by over 1,500 clergy, religious leaders, and other people of faith), and answer the practical question of what public policy principles religious leaders and policymakers should support in their desire to achieve Biblically balanced stewardship. CA

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Cornwall Alliance releases An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming

The Cornwall Alliance is proud to announce the release of An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming, for which it is gathering endorsements from evangelical scholars, scientists, economists, pastors and other ministry leaders.

“The Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming rests on the solid findings of the Renewed Call to Truth, so evangelicals can be confident that it represents outstanding theology, science, and economics.”   CA

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Stewardship Notes

January 28, 2010 — East Anglia CRU Broke the Law--But Can’t Be Prosecuted
It’s official. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK has ruled that the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia broke the law by refusing to comply with data... ECB

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January 22, 2010 — Global Warming Alarmism Falling Apart in Light of ‘Climategate’ and IPCC Errors
One of the most alarming warnings in the 2007 Assessment Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was that Himalayan glaciers—on which hundreds of millions of... ECB

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January 22, 2010 — In Praise of Scientific Piranhas: the Legacies of Climategate
It’s been two months now since Climategate broke. The disclosure of thousands of emails, computer programs, and other documents from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East... ECB

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January 19, 2010 — Who’s to Blame for Haiti’s Earthquake? Hollywood Knows!
I suppose it was inevitable that soon enough some brilliant Hollywood actor would blame Haiti’s earthquake on global warming. Danny Glover goes a step further: he blames it specifically on the failure of UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen. I kid you not.

 ECB

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January 14, 2010 — Review Makes Outstanding Book’s Arguments Quick and Easy to Grasp
Bob DeWaay does anyone wishing really to understand the deepest aspects of climate science--applied mathematics of chaotic turbulent fluid dynamic systems--a great favor with his careful  ECB

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January 14, 2010 — Prominent Signers of An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming
Add Your Endorsement Now!

Updated January 14, 2010

Here are some of the prominent endorsers among the approximately 500 people who have endorsed the Declaration so far:

  • ministry...
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January 12, 2010 — Forget Global Warming--Mini Ice Age May Be on Its Way
Cornwall’s Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming couldn’t come at a better time--sign today!

You know the wheels are falling off the manmade global warming bandwagon when even the...

 ECB

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December 17, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: The Other Shoe Just Dropped--Climategate II Begins
It’s a fitting event set right near the climax of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen: Russian scientists confirm suspicions that UK climate scientists have mishandled Russian temperature... ECB

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December 17, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: The Driving Motivation for a Climate Treaty
I’ve mentioned in some earlier blogs that I’ve heard precious little discussion of temperatures or science here in Copenhagen but plenty of politics and money. Both in the streets... ECB

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December 17, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: The Bottomless Pit of Foreign Aid
Over the last 50 years the wealthy countries of the West have given over $50 trillion--that’s right, trillion--in aid to poor countries in Latin America, Asia, and, especially, Africa. And,... ECB

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December 17, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: Clinton Pledges Away Cap-and-Trade Revenues
Forget about a revenue-neutral cap-and-trade bill if Clinton’s pledge takes effect.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a packed news conference at the UN climate summit...

 ECB

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December 17, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: Natural Disasters: Acts of God, or Acts of Man?
Move over God, man is in charge!

That, anyway, is the implication of a comment UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is, according to the UK Telegraph, scripted to make at the climate summit in...

 ECB

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December 16, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: Vegan Sandwich
Would you like a vegan sandwich?

Well, to tell you the truth, when the Asian girl with the sweet smile on her face first offered me one from her large tray in the cold outside the Bella...

 ECB

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December 16, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: Population Control Freaks Hitch Their Wagon to Global Warming
"Humans are overpopulating the world,” wrote Diane Francis in Canada’s National Post Tuesday. “A planetary law, such as China’s one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous... ECB

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December 16, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: Greenpeace Gets ‘Punked’
Greenpeace, the radical environmentalist group, has a long history of invading factories and government buildings and hanging banners on them charging their targets with evil. Yesterday in... ECB

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December 16, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: Is Tuvalu Drowning?
If there’s a rival to the polar bear as the poster child of global warming, it’s the island nation of Tuvalu in the southwestern Pacific ocean. For over a decade doomsters of manmade global... ECB

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December 16, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: Hype and Drudgery
Charles, Prince of Wales, heir to Britain’s throne, spoke inspiringly--or was it despairingly--to the UN climate conference Tuesday, urging action because the “survival of the species is in... ECB

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December 15, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: The Emperor Has No Clothes--Or, Critics 2, IPCC 0
Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, delivered a highly touted lecture on global warming at the University of Copenhagen Tuesday evening, which I... ECB

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December 15, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: Birds of a Feather
After five days in Copenhagen among thousands and thousands of the world’s most dedicated environmentalists, I’m still not convinced that most environmentalists are communists, socialists,... ECB

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December 15, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: And They Want to Organize the World?
As many have reported, the UN climate conference here in Copenhagen has hit a bit of a snag. It certified about 45,000 people to attend as official delegates or non-governmental... ECB

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December 15, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: Continuing Events Back Home
While I’m here in Copenhagen, events continue in the U.S. related to global warming. Here are five notable recent developments:

  1. The percentage of Americans who believe global warming...
 ECB

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December 14, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: Save the Planet, Scrap Capitalism!
I’ve reported elsewhere on this blog the prominence of Communists and Socialists in the rallies surrounding the UN climate conference here in Copenhagen, but there’s nothing like getting it... ECB

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December 14, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: Developing Nations Stalling for Money
Breaking news from the UN climate summit in Copenhagen: talks breaking down (at least temporarily) as developing nations walk out in protest. Protest of what? They’re not getting enough of... ECB

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December 14, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: Talking with an Alaskan Geologist
Before coming to Copenhagen, I Googled to find an English-speaking church to attend on Sunday and found the International Christian Church of Copenhagen. Though I’m Reformed and its pastor... ECB

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December 12, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: Protests Today
Had you asked me 20 years ago, or 1 year ago, or last week, I could never have predicted what I did today here in Copenhagen. I took part in a protest march, carrying a sign ("The science... ECB

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December 12, 2009 — Copenhagen Update: Propaganda Everywhere
The word is that over 40,000 people registered to attend as official or unofficial participants in COP-15, the Conference of the Parties 15 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change,... ECB

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December 10, 2009 — “Climategate”: Sad Revelation of Corruption in Climate Science
The exposure of thousands of emails, computer code, and other documents from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia last month demonstrates widespread corruption... ECB

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December 10, 2009 — Meet the Critics
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Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Ph.D.

Founding director of the International Arctic Research Center and former director of the Geophysical Institute at the University of... 

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December 10, 2009 — COP-15: The Copenhagen Round of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Written for the Cornwall Alliance’s December 10, 2009 Newsletter

By the time this newsletter wings its way through the Internet to you, I’ll be winging my way to Copenhagen as a...

 ECB

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