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Stewardship Notes
- 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...
- Are We Causing Global Warming and Should We Fight It?
By Peter Beisner (April 21, 2009)
Assistant Newsletter Editor, Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
A doctor fell in a deep well
and broke his collar bone.
The moral: Doctor, mind the sick
and leave the well alone.
This famous poem arrives, though somewhat absurdly, at a good moral: Tend to the sick, not the well....
- Watch Out! Mankind May Yet Screw up a Good Thing!
(April 9, 2009)
by George Anderson
Vice President, Engineering, Crown Iron Works Company
Even if you are one of the scientists who believes in the strictest and most inevitable versions of global warming theory, be practical and a bit humble.
1. It seems 100% evident that the earth system is in a very...
- Manmade Warming On Hold, or Errant Alarmists Seeking Cover?
By David Legates, Ph.D. (March 16, 2009)
A recent article (‘Global Warming: On Hold?’, Michael Reilly, Discovery News) focuses on the recent plateau of global air temperatures. After air temperatures rose dramatically since the late 1970s, culminating in a peak in 1998 caused largely by a strong El Niño event, air temperatures have...
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