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Stewardship Notes
- Pew Poll on Scientists’ and Public’s Views of Global Warming Deceptive
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (July 16, 2009)
Proponents of alarm over alleged manmade, catastrophic global warming took comfort in a poll released July 9 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press that found that while only 32% of the public believes that Earth is getting warmer because of human activity, 87% of scientists do....
- New Climate Change Report: More Scary Scenarios from Climate Extremists
By David Legates, Ph.D. (July 8, 2009)
Just before the House of Representatives voted on a massive climate bill, the government released a report on climate change. It reiterated the Oscar-winning theme from An Inconvenient Truth – impacts from human-induced climate change are already occurring and that they are going to get worse. ...
- More Evidence that the Sun, Not Man, Controls Earth’s Temperature
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (July 8, 2009)
In his book The Chilling Stars, Henrik Svensmark explained his theory that changes in solar magnetic wind output could control changes in cloud formation on Earth and thus control changes in Earth’s surface temperature. Here’s how it works: Earth is bathed in a current of cosmic rays coming from...
- What Will Cap-and-Trade Cost People in Your Congressional District?
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (July 8, 2009)
The Heritage Foundation released a report on June 25 that shows the costs of H.R. 2998, the so-called “American Clean Energy and Security Act,” on a district-by-district basis. What will it cost people in your district? The report gives aggregate figures, but you can calculate the cost per capita...
- Scientists Duel with Letters on Global Warming
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (July 1, 2009)
On June 19, the Woods Hole Research Center released an open letter from scientists to the President and members of Congress calling for “strong leadership” to avert “a rapidly developing global climatic catastrophe.” The letter called for passage of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill then pending...
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