Environment

19 Aug 2008 Global Warming:Has the Climate Sensitivity Holy Grail Been Found?

from the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation Newsletter, July 12, 2008 [Editor's note: Last summer University of Alabama Senior Research Scientist in climatology Dr. Roy Spencer and co-authors published a paper reporting their findings that (warming) cirrus clouds diminish rather than increasing in response to rising surface temperatures, thus making them a negative rather than a positive feedback, something they estimated could reduce by 75 percent the amount of warming to be expected from doubled CO2 in the atmosphere, since all the computer climate models assumed the opposite.

12 May 2008 Evangelical Skepticism about Global Warming

By E. Calvin Beisner (Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, Newsletter, May 10, 2008)National Spokesman, April 29, 2008 In an ad on p. 49 of the April 19/26 issue of World magazine, the Evangelical Climate Initiative claimed, based on an Ellison poll done last summer, that "84 percent of evangelicals support federal legislation to significantly reduce carbon emissions that cause global warming." It didn't tell readers Ellison's definition of "evangelical" was hopelessly broad. A more recent Barna poll, dividing the nation's self-professed born-again population into two groups--"evangelicals" (about 18 million) and "non-evangelicals" (about 77 million), found that "Evangelicals perceive global warming very differently than any other slice of the population--and they view the issue with significant skepticism. Among evangelicals, just 33% say that the issue is a major challenge, compared with 55% of non-evangelical born again Christians. That qualifies evangelicals as the least concerned segment among more than 50 population groups studied." Of all the demographic groups identified in Barna's poll, evangelicals showed the lowest belief in global warming as a critical problem.

28 Apr 2008 Interview: Weather Channel Founder’s Forecast

The New American - March 31, 2008By William F. JasperInterview of John Coleman by William F. JasperMany believe that global warming is one of the most critical challenges thatface our planet today. According to the United Nation’s IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change, many scientists and most environmentalists andtheir allies in the media and academia, uncontrolled rising temperatureswill cause more frequent droughts, food shortages, melting polar ice capsand coastal flooding, and the extinction of polar bears and many otherspecies. They claim that modern, industrialized society is causing globalwarming, and they predict climatic calamity including frequent category fiveand numerous other severe storms resulting in great suffering.