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What's "a far more deadly gas" than the Sarin that Syrian President Bashar al Assad used to kill his own citizens—prompting President Trump to respond with a missile attack? *Carbon dioxide.* Or so says The Nation.
"President Trump's 'Executive Order on Energy Independence' will save the American people hundreds of billions of dollars every year that would have been wasted on purely symbolic efforts under former President Obama's 'Clean Power Plan' and other regulations," Cornwall Alliance Founder and National Spokesman E. Calvin Beisner said today.
One step in climate and energy policy making is establishing the so-called "social cost of carbon" (SCC). That's a misnomer, of course, for it substitutes "carbon" (an element, a solid, posing a risk of respiratory diseases when it blows around as fine-particle black dust) for "carbon dioxide" (a compound, a gas, odorless, colorless, non-toxic at over twenty times today's atmospheric concentration but essential to all life, with plants and their fruits increasing as its concentration rises)
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) eagerly reported March 8 that February was the second warmest February in the last 123 years for the contiguous U.S. Various news media played it up. More evidence of dangerous man-made global warming! (Except that, of course, warming is only evidence of warming, not of man-made warming. And the contiguous U.S. is not equal to the globe.)
The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation today released an open letter to the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee supporting the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt's confirmation hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, January 18, 2017.
The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation released an open letter to President-Elect Donald J. Trump supporting the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
Dr. Katherine Hayhoe is an evangelical scientist who desires the wellbeing of human society. She crunches data and helps people quantify the impacts of climate change. Sadly, her communication to the church has been anything but helpful.
Uncertainty doesn't necessarily imply a lack of clarity. We can be uncertain about the outcome of a particular event or question, but we can be very clear about the nature of the questions and the likely outcome of a sequence of those events. The study of global climate change is fraught with uncertainty, as is much of science in general. This isn't unusual. By its very nature, science must be conservative. Findings and conclusions should have a high degree of statistical significance (that is, you wouldn't expect them to happen by chance), yet at the same time those conclusions can never be announced as "certain" or "settled science."
