By David R. Legates and E. Calvin Beisner We have five predictions for you: All were made—by real scientists—in the past. So, here’s the rundown: As you can see, not one of those dire predictions was fulfilled. Yet all raised grave public concern for years after they were made. Okay, but what about that fifth
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In April 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave America’s coal and gas plants an ultimatum: capture most of your carbon dioxide emissions or close. On September 14, the agency withdrew the order. The repeal corrects one of the most reckless regulatory actions of the past decade. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the decision
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The “affordability crisis” is all over the news lately. It figures into predictions of how the next elections are going to turn out. It comes up on TV and radio talk shows, podcasts, and friendly—or not so friendly—conversations among friends and family members. Millions of Americans believe pretty much everything is unaffordable today—from burritos to
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A recent Friends of the Earth email wailed that URGENT ACTION is needed to prevent MASSIVE data centers from DESTROYING communities, the environment and property values, while tech billionaires get even richer! Other opponents say artificial intelligence (AI) and data centers (DCs) gobble up rivers of water and terawatts of electricity, sprawl across landscapes, raise
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In a recent article, I compared today’s hue and cry against AI and data centers to the anti-nuclear campaigns that halted U.S. nuclear energy development four decades ago. Now others are picking that theme, most recently Michael Waller in National Review. Meanwhile, the anti-nuclear crowd continues to use the threat of nuclear war as a
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Every age offers the believer a rival account of history. Ours says the planet is dying, humanity is to blame, and only a total reordering of how you eat, travel, build, and power your home can delay the sentence. For three decades, newsrooms, universities, and government agencies have repeated this account with remarkable discipline. Many
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The following is a guest article by Lipton Matthews. Few books arrive with a thesis as deliberately provocative as its title. Gregory Wrightstone’s A Very Convenient Warming: How Modest Warming and More CO₂ Are Benefiting Humanity sets out to invert nearly every assumption underlying the modern climate conversation, and it does so armed less with
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At the recently concluded United Nations General Assembly in New York, India spoke for the Global South, stating that the low- and middle-income nations must have a just and rightful opportunity to industrialize, just like the West did in the 20th century. This echoes what rational Christian environmentalists like me having been saying for the
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In the era of TikTok and global governments, Biblical stewardship of creation does not mean surrendering our judgment to every environmental movement that claims the moral high ground. It means looking honestly at the evidence, identifying the problems that threaten human beings now, and pursuing solutions that improve the lives of our neighbors. For much
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The mainstream media and policy analysts have been slower than sloths in displaying an understanding of how the United States’ dismantling greenhouse gas limits for power plants is a profound turning point for global energy policy. Moreover, while Washington reclaims industrial common sense, the promise of energy reformation languishes in Africa, especially in nations that
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