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Stewardship Notes
- Did EPA Muzzle Analyst’s Report?
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (June 30, 2009)
Last March Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) analyst Alan Carlin submitted a report that challenged the EPA’s intent to regulate carbon dioxide to reduce global warming. The 98-page report called the science underlying the EPA’s intents outdated and cited multiple refereed scientific and...
- Cal Beisner Discusses Cap-and-Trade Bill on Richard Land Live Radio Broadcast
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (June 27, 2009)
Radio talk show hosts run the gamut from the hyper-focused to the hyper-diffuse, but Richard Land takes the cake for one who connects all the dots from world view to doctrine to church history to economics to environment to tiny details of specific legislation. Our discussion on “Richard Land Live”...
- CBO’s Smoke and Mirrors with Cap-and-Trade Cost Numbers
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (June 23, 2009)
The Heritage Foundation estimated a month ago that cap-and-trade legislation making its way through the House of Representatives would cost the average American household about $1,500 a year in higher energy bills and the American economy about $9.6 trillion in lost gross domestic product between...
- Cutting CO2 Emissions While Still Using Coal
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (May 15, 2009)
Switching to other fuels isn’t the only way to reduce CO2 emissions. The New York Times reported May 11 that China’s adoption of high-tech coal-fired generating plants increases their efficiency in extracting energy from coal by 18% to 39%, allowing them to generate that much more electricity from...
- Sea Level: Models Versus Reality
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (April 23, 2009)
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has created an Internet tool that simulates sea level rise. The Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM)-View (http://www.fws.gov/slamm/ and http://www.slammview.org) displays map pairs of the same area, each at different sea levels.
“Sea level rise is...
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