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Stewardship Notes
- Copenhagen Update: The Other Shoe Just Dropped—Climategate II Begins
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (December 17, 2009)
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 data, resulting in exaggerated apparent global warming trend.
As James Delingpole reports in Telegraph.co.uk,...
- Copenhagen Update: The Driving Motivation for a Climate Treaty
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (December 17, 2009)
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 (thousands carrying red flags of the Communist Party, complete with hammer and sickle, and flags of the International...
- Copenhagen Update: The Bottomless Pit of Foreign Aid
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (December 17, 2009)
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, as William Easterly demonstrates from official statistics in The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to...
- Copenhagen Update: Clinton Pledges Away Cap-and-Trade Revenues
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (December 17, 2009)
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 today that the United States would take the lead in raising $100 billion a year to help developing nations meet...
- Copenhagen Update: Natural Disasters: Acts of God, or Acts of Man?
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (December 17, 2009)
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 Copenhagen today.
In an impassioned speech, Brown is set to say, “Hurricanes, floods, typhoons and droughts we...
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