National Religious Broadcasters' NRB Network Airs Resisting the Green Dragon
Selections from the Cornwall Alliance’s groundbreaking
Resisting the Green Dragon video series are airing on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on the NRB Network, viewable over DirecTV’s Channel 378, Sky Angel’s Channel 126, and streaming live at
http://www.nrbnetwork.tv/watchonline.
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Recent Significant Developments
Science & Ecology
2011 U.S. Temperature Update: Alarmism Not (Chris Knappenberger;
Masterresource.org)
Just in case you thought the recent heat wave around much of the U.S. was extraordinary or new evidence for global warming (manmade or otherwise), think again.
The “data” aren’t very reliable. And, Patrick Michaels points out,
"There is no statistically significant warming trend since November of 1996 in monthly surface temperature records. …"
A World Food Crisis? (Fred Singer;
American Thinker)
Global warming is more likely to increase than decrease global food production. Why? Let me count the ways ….
Economics & Energy
The Promise and the Over-Promise (Marvin Olasky; World)
Ending extreme poverty is a noble goal. Many proposals for how to reach it, however, ignore the importance of worldview and societal institutions. Marvin Olasky warns here of the failure of some Christian charities to consider that. His warnings are sound, and I add my hearty second to his recommendations of Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett’s
When Helping Hurts: Alleviating Poverty without Hurting the Poor … and Ourselves and, especially, Hernando de Soto’s two monumental books
The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism (update and revision of his 1989
The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World) and
The Mystery of Capitalism: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, the latter the most important and insightful book I’ve read in nearly thirty years studying the field. Indeed, one clear lesson is that just “spreading the wealth around” through charitable giving, especially when done through government-run foreign aid, not only doesn’t help the poor but helps perpetuate the conditions, including the oppressive governments, that cause their poverty, as demonstrated in
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa and William Easterly’s
The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Help the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
Inhibiting an Oil and Gas Boom (Paul Chesser; The American Spectator)
"The fossil fuel shale extraction industry, where technological advancements and discoveries of huge reserves of oil and natural gas hold great promise for the nation's future energy needs, is under attack."
The Latest Job Killer From the EPA (John Engler;
The Wall Street Journal)
"The agency's ozone rule will be the most expensive in history—and isn't required by law."
Religion & Ethics
The Debilitating Disease of Climate Alarmism (Climate Change Reconsidered)
“Yes, we live in truly disturbing times, when climate alarmists are proclaiming one impending catastrophe after another, if anthropogenic CO2 emissions are not drastically reduced; and there is absolutely
no question but that the responsibility for the resultant widespread and growing state of irrational depression, anxiety and stress that is manifesting itself throughout the world can be laid squarely at the doorstep of those who peddle climatic doom and gloom, and that the perverse results of their perturbing of the psyches of millions of people will bring nothing but anguish and remorse as rewards for their woefully misguided efforts.”
“Building Trust” and FOI Refusals (Steve McIntyre; Climate Audit)
A good explanation of why we can't trust alarmist climate scientists generally. Anyone among them who isn't openly, publicly, insistently urging his colleagues in the climate science community to practice complete transparency and sharing of data and stop all the obstructionism defines himself, too, as one not to be trusted.
Law, Regulation, & Litigation
Indefensible (Paul Chesser; The American Spectator)
That Environmental Defense Fund’s latest advertising campaign spreads false information about risks from mercury emissions is reason enough to read this article carefully. Perhaps even more compelling is its discussion of the unethical legal game the Environmental Protection Agency and environmental pressure groups like EDF play, to the considerable benefit of both sides but to the impoverishment of taxpayers. “The bill that EDF so strenuously objects to
reduces EPA funding by 18 percent, and its funding for climate change programs by 22 percent. This not only cuts into EPA's police power, but also has the potential to harm an EDF cash flow that it enjoys by recovering its attorney fees after suing EPA. As former Bush EPA official Jeffrey Holmstead
explained to Investor’s Business Daily recently, ‘The EPA isn't harmed by these suits. Often the suits involve things the EPA wants to do anyway. By inviting a lawsuit and then signing a consent decree, the agency gets legal cover from political heat.’"
