by Dr. James Tonkowich
So wrote Atmospheric Physicist Dr. John Reid, quoted in a new report on
is just one of our accomplishments this year. We’re grateful to friends whose generosity has made that project possible along with the many articles and essays, television and radio appearances, lectures and conversations we were part of in 2010.
Some Christmas presents come in surprising ways.
DVD series.
The result? With enemies like these, who needs friends? In less than a month, their Left-wing relay race yielded over 37,000 views of a
pirated, edited-down version on YouTube of our
12-minute preview video, and thousands of often angry,
ad hominem, sometimes profane comments by readers of the Left-wing hit jobs.
The critics of course distort our message by claiming that we don’t think Christians should be concerned about environmental protection. The truth is, while we reject radical Green alarmism, guilt, and useless penance, we believe in genuine, Biblically based Earth stewardship using sound science and economics.
On the principle that the only bad publicity is no publicity, the Cornwall Alliance accepts these critics’ Christmas gifts and thanks them for the free publicity.
Recent Significant Developments
Science & Ecology
Australia's White Summer, Monbiot's Red Fury (Anthony Watts;
Watts Up With That?)
Want to understand just why the data supporting global warming reported to the media by NASA's GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies) aren't to be trusted? Read this in its entirety and be amazed—truly amazed—that NASA gets away with this stuff and heads don't roll.
Rosy U.K. Cheeks Mean Red Faces at the Met Office (Peter Foster;
Financial Post)
Call December a bad month—rather, call the last three winters (odds of that according to UK Met Office: 0.05 x 0.05 x 0.05 / 1 = 1.25 in 10,000) very bad winters—in Europe and the UK for global warming alarmists, as expressed in the clamor
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here, and elsewhere. Oh, yes—there’s also been
snow in Australia this (summer) month. All this, by the way, despite the prediction a decade ago that “
Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.”
Economics & Energy
Ethanol - Revolt Against King Corn Has Just Begun (Marlo Lewis; GlobalWarming.org)
When the
Washington Post,
New York Times,
Chicago Tribune, and
National Public Radio all abandon the good ship Ethanol, you know it’s capsized and headed right for the bottom. Indeed, the only thing keeping it afloat is all the money flowing from corn growers, ethanol distillers, and their lobbyists to greedy Congressmen who care more for their campaign chests than for America’s and the world’s poor or the environment.
A Wind Power Boonedoggle (Robert Bryce;
The Wall Street Journal)
T. Boone Pickens placed high bets on wind power in 2008, but wind power doesn't have good competition in the free market.
Religion & Ethics
The Case of the Curious Climate Covenant (Russell Cook;
American Thinker)
So which is the bigger sin? Failing to stop a so-called global warming crisis which has increasing credibility problems with its underlying science assessments, or breaking the 9th Commandment in order to be sure scientists' criticisms aren't taken seriously?
Hubris and the History of Forecasting (Anthony Sadar;
American Thinker)
Many weather or climate forecasters care more about their popularity and power than about telling the truth.
Politics & Debate
SPPI Monthly CO2 Report (Christopher Monckton; Science and Public Policy Institute)
Lord Christopher Monckton explains the chief outcome of the U.N. climate summit in Cancun: establishment of a powerful and well-funded global bureaucracy unaccountable and nearly indestructible, a serious threat to freedom and national sovereignty.
Oh the Horror! Fox Bureau Chief Told Reporters to be "Skeptical" (Mark Tapscott;
The Washington Examiner)
Media Matters attacks Bill Sammon, Fox News Washington Bureau Chief, for telling his reporters to be skeptical about everything they report—i.e., for telling them to be good reporters.
Landmark Documents from the Cornwall Alliance
E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D., Founder and National Spokesman
Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
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That environmentalism is a religious system is something we at the Cornwall Alliance have talked about for years. In fact, it is the central thesis in our new 
