Cornwall Spokesman to Appear on MSNBC Thursday, January 6

Cornwall Alliance National Spokesman Cal Beisner is scheduled to appear on MSNBC’s “Dayside with Thomas Roberts” along with Jim Ball of the Evangelical Environmental Network Thursday, January 6, between 3:30 and 4 p.m., discussing evangelical participation in environmentalism.

If at Once You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again

by E. Calvin Beisner
Founder and National Spokesman
Cornwall Alliance

Major revelations of scientific misconduct by key climate scientists in the global warming alarmist camp, embarrassing errors by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and multiple research findings showing the effect of added greenhouse gases on global temperature to be much less than previously theorized have undermined the case for catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) considerably in the last several years.

Meanwhile, citizens and politicians have been waking up to the cost of alternative energy sources, which typically run twice to six times that of traditional and nuclear fuels.

Consequently, public belief in CAGW and willingness to fight it with drastic, costly changes in energy systems has dwindled, cap and trade is dead in the U.S. Congress, and efforts at U.N. climate summits in Copenhagen in 2009 and Cancun last month to negotiate a new greenhouse gas treaty to start when the Kyoto Protocol ends in 2012 have come up empty handed.

One might think the true-believer climate activists would be going “back to basics,” and so they are, as Darren Samuelson reports at Politico.com.

You might think “back to basics” would mean reassessing the science and economics. You would be wrong.

Instead, as Samuelson reports, “Environmentalists, scientists and lawmakers have renewed public relations efforts.”

Seems to me I remember an American administration that’s trying something similar, figuring it’s not its policies but its messaging that turned voters away.

Robert L. Bradley of the free-market energy blog MasterResource.com critiques the new thrust in “Hey America: ‘Wonky’ Climate Alarmism Coming at You (Big Science, Big Environment want to scare you into energy, economic retrogression).”

Bradley makes a bold proposal:

Let’s debate! That means having qualified persons on each side of the issue to debate the fundamental questions. How about this for a title: “The Human Influence on Climate: How Much (or Little), How Bad (or Good), and Politics.” Let’s educate the public on the physical science … [a]nd on the economics … [a]nd on the public policy/politics ….

Great idea. But will climate alarmists take him up on it? We shall see. Up to now they’ve preferred pontificating while avoiding level-field debate.

Meanwhile, the Cornwall Alliance will keep working to help citizens and policy makers see that sound science and economics stand against the activists’ demands, for instance, by distributing our twelve-part DVD series Resisting the Green Dragon to churches around the country, providing speakers for churches, colleges, and other groups, publishing James Wanliss’s outstanding book Resisting the Green Dragon: Dominion, Not Death, producing this newsletter, and maintaining and improving our website with the treasure troves of valuable information there.

But we’re outnumbered and outspent hundreds of times over by the opposition. Your support is badly needed, and welcome.

Recent Significant Developments

Science & Ecology

Why Most Published Research Findings are False (Roy Spencer; DrRoySpencer.com)
Climatologist Dr. Roy W. Spencer explains how the findings of a medical journal article on why most published research findings are false apply to global warming science.

Willie Soon and Selvaraj Kandasamy: Hype Versus Reality on Indian Climate Change (Paul Driessen; Climate Realists)
India, along with the United States, Britain, and Mexico, is having record lows, and yet Minister Ramesh is pushing for policies to reduce global warming.

Environmental Groups Sue to Block Wind Farm (Associated Press; Washington Examiner)
Just how eager are environmentalists to replace traditional with “renewable” energy sources like wind? Not very, as their suit to block Constellation Energy from building a wind farm in Maryland demonstrates.

Hot Sensations Vs. Cold Facts (Larry Bell; Forbes.com)
The media owe us better coverage on the climate than alarmism.

The Father of Global Warming Skepticism: An Interview with S. Fred Singer (Ashley Thorne; National Association of Scholars)
S. Fred Singer said in an interview with the National Association of Scholars (NAS) that “the number of skeptical qualified scientists has been growing steadily; I would guess it is about 40% now.”

Economics & Energy

The Environmental Ethics of Biofuels (Keith Sherwood and Craig Idso; CO2 Science)
"Biofuels cannot be either our energy panacea, nor supply even a minimal share of energy supply for our society without causing major social and environmental problems."

The Wind Subsidy Bubble (The Wall Street Journal)
With government subsidizing wind energy, taxpayers pay more for less energy.

CARB's Carbon Capers (Fred Singer; The Independent Institute)
California’s cap-and-trade restrictions harm businesses and reduce employment.

Economic Optimism? Yes, I'll Take That Bet (John Tierney; The New York Times)
"You can always make news with doomsday predictions, but you can usually make money betting against them."

Religion & Ethics

An Evangelical Backlash Against Environmentalism (John Collins Rudolf; The New York Times)
Unlike the hatchet jobs by Right Wing Watch, Mother Jones, and Huffington Post featured in last week’s newsletter, New York Times blogger is fair and balanced about Cornwall’s Resisting the Green Dragon.

Politics & Debate

The Congressional Research Service's Dirty Little Big Green Secrets (Ron Arnold; The Washington Examiner)
The Congressional Research Service claims to be open and transparent, objective, balanced, and nonpartisan, even on environmental matters. And, yes, there is a Santa Claus.

Morano (Video)
Climate Depot’s Marc Morano blasts global warming alarmists for claiming cold, snowy winters are evidence of dangerous anthropogenic global warming, when ten years ago they predicted that warm, snowless winters would be its consequence.

Ag Department Uproots Science (The Wall Street Journal)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture ignores the science to push Green policies.

The EPA's War on Texas (The Wall Street Journal)
Say goodbye to the remnants of federalism. Constitution? What’s that?

Meet the Critics: John Coleman

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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