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Stewardship Notes
- Conference Culminates in Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change
(March 7, 2008)
Scientists, economists, and policy experts gathered for the International Conference on Climate Change in New York City this week joined in issuing the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change following the conference. The Declaration reads: “Global warming” is not a global crisis We, the scientists and researchers in climate and related fields, economists, policymakers, and business leaders, assembled at Times Square, New York City, participating in the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, Resolving that scientific questions should be evaluated solely by the scientific method; Affirming that global climate has always changed and always… CA
- New Summary for Policymakers: Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate
(March 7, 2008)
A panel of climate change experts calling itself the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, headed by S. Fred Singer, this week released a report that competes head-on with the Summary for Policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The group’s name highlights the fact that, contrary to common perceptions that it is an objective body of scientists, the IPCC comprises not only scientists but also government bureaucrats and policy shapers, and its Summary for Policymakers reflects strong political biases.
The report, which can be read online in its entirety at http://www.heartland.org/pdf/22835.pdf, concludes: CA
- From Climate Alarmism to Climate Realism
Address to the International Conference on Climate Change
(March 7, 2008)
I have spent most of my life under the communist regime. A week ago, I [said]… “Future dangers will not come from the same source. The ideology will be different. Its essence will, nevertheless, be identical – the attractive, pathetic, at first sight noble idea that transcends the individual in the name of the common good, and the enormous self-confidence on the side of its proponents about their right to sacrifice the man and his freedom in order to make this idea reality.” What I had in mind was, of course, environmentalism and its currently strongest version, climate alarmism. CA
- Global Warming: Not so Fast
(February 21, 2008)
For more than 100 years, climate scientists have fully understood that if all else were held constant, an increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) would lead to an increase in the near-surface air temperatures. The problem becomes a lot more complicated in the real world when we consider that “all else” cannot be held constant and there are a lot… CA
- Deep Ecology, Neo-Paganism, and the Irrationalism of Global Warming Hysteria
Delivered to the Christian Witness in a Pagan Planet CWIPPThink Conference, January 21-24, 2008
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (February 15, 2008)
From the paper: . . . In April of last year I was among about eighty participants from around the world–scientists, politicians, economists, religious leaders–in a conference on climate change sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at the Vatican. During the shuttle trip from our meeting place in Vatican City to our hotel the first evening, I sat beside a middle-aged woman, tall, redhaired, rather gangly looking. We exchanged names and struck up conversation.
She was Mary Evelyn Tucker, a Senior Lecturer and Senior Scholar at Yale University where she has appointments… CA
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