Beisner, EC

=cornwall faded? rothbard rip?=interv morano cfact cli hustle , reminisce about boxer EPW testimony?
<a href="https://cornwallalliance.org/2013/07/cornwall-senior-fellow-blasts-global-warming-alarmism-in-senate-hearing/">https://cornwallalliance.org/2013/07/cornwall-senior-fellow-blasts-global-warming-alarmism-in-senate-hearing/</a>
cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Dr. Roy Spencer testified July 18 before the Senate Subcommittee on Environment and Public Works in a hearing on global warming.<div style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img loading="lazy" src="https://www.cornwallalliance.org/images/Screen_Shot_2013-07-22_at_8.53.09_PM.png" alt="" width="335" height="244" align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto;" />“The lack of statistically significant warming in the last 15 years,” Spencer told the committee via <a href="http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/Spencer_EPW_Written_Testimony_7_18_2013_updated.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">his written testimony</a>,</div></div><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“… is sometimes glossed over with the claim that the global temperature record has a number of examples of no warming (or even cooling) over fifteen year periods. But this claim is disingenuous, because the IPCC-presumed radiative forcing of the climate system from increasing CO2 has been at its supposed maximum value only in the last 15 years. In other words, when the climate ‘stove’ has been turned up the most (the last 15 years) is also when you least expect a lack of warming.“It is time for scientists to entertain the possibility that there is something wrong with the assumptions built into their climate models. The fact that all of the models have been peer reviewed does not mean that any of them have been deemed to have any skill for predicting future temperatures. In the parlance of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daubert_standard" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Daubert standard for rules of scientific evidence</a>, the models have not been successfully field tested for predicting climate change, and so far their error rate should preclude their use for predicting future climate change.”</blockquote>Criticizing claims that recent global warming has made severe weather events more frequent or more intense, Spencer testified,<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The most indefensible claim regarding climate change from an observational point of view is that severe weather has increased. Meteorologists like me have long known that public perception of weather is skewed by short memories and increasing media sensationalizing of weather disasters.“There is little or no observational evidence that severe weather of any type has worsened over the last 30, 50, or 100 years, irrespective of whether any such changes could be blamed on human activities, anyway. Long-term measurements of droughts, floods, strong tornadoes, hurricanes, severe thunderstorms etc. all show no obvious trends, but do show large variability from one decade to the next, or even one year to the next. While the 2003 heat wave in France and the 2010 heat wave in Russia were exceptional, so were the heat waves of the 1930s in the U.S., which cannot be blamed on our greenhouse gas emissions.”</blockquote>Climate scientist <a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/roger-pielke-jr-testimony-current-state-weather-extremes/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Roger Pielke Jr.</a> also testified, about the reality of warming and its <a href="http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/07/19/nota-bene-wrong-and-misleading-on-weather-disasters/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">effect</a> on population, weather, and economy.Spencer, who is a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a member of the Global Hydrology and Climate Center of the National Space Science and Technology Center, U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-E flying on NASA’s Earth-observation satellite Aqua, and a recipient of NASA’s Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, also <a href="http://www.sootoday.com/content/arts/details.asp?c=58691" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">gave a public presentation on global warming in Sault, MI, July 2</a>.<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/07/19/ouch-senate-global-warming-hearing-backfires-on-democrats-skeptics-roger-pielke-jr-totally-dismantled-warmism-scientifically-economically-rhetorically/" target="blank" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">James Taylor reported on the EPW hearing</a>, “Sen. David Vitter asked a panel of experts, including experts selected by Boxer, ‘Can any witnesses say they agree with Obama’s statement that warming has accelerated during the past 10 years?’” None did. “After several seconds of deafening silence, global warming activist Heidi Cullen … contradicted Obama’s central assertion and said warming has slowed, not accelerated.”Dr. John Dale Dunn, a member of the Science and Policy Advisory Board of the American Council on Science and Health, commented via email, “Steve Milloy tells me that Roy Spencer … during the Senate hearing on climate today hammered the ball into the deep outfield alleys and even up into the upper decks. He left his opponents in blubbering disarray.”<a href="http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.LiveStream&Hearing_id=cfe32378-96a4-81ed-9d0e-2618e6ddff46" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Spencer’s video testimony</a> (allow lots of time for buffering) starts at 3:04 (that’s 3 hours and 4 minutes), and his part of the question-and-answer period starts at 3:23. His own report on the hearing is online at <a href="http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/07/senate-epw-hearing-climate-change-its-happened-before/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Senate EPW Hearing: “Climate Change: It’s Happened Before”</a>.The Cornwall Alliance is honored to have had Dr. Spencer’s assistance since we began our work in 2005 and is grateful for his co-authoring three of our major studies:<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem 4rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://www.cornwallalliance.org/docs/a-renewed-call-to-truth-prudence-and-protection-of-the-poor.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">A Renewed Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Examination of the Theology, Science, and Economics of Global Warming</a> (2009)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://www.cornwallalliance.org/docs/a-call-to-truth-prudence-and-protection-of-the-poor.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Response to Global Warming</a> (2006)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://www.cornwallalliance.org/docs/an-examination-of-the-scientific-ethical-and-theological-implications-of-climate-change-policy.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">An Examination of the Scientific, Ethical, and Theological Implications of Climate Change Policy</a> (2005)</li></ul><div>=documentaries<a href="https://www.desmog.com/2015/11/19/evangelical-christian-zeal-behind-marc-morano-s-climate-denial-documentary-climate-hustle/">https://www.desmog.com/2015/11/19/evangelical-christian-zeal-behind-marc-morano-s-climate-denial-documentary-climate-hustle/</a>The Evangelical Christian Climate Deniers Behind Marc Morano’s Climate Hustle DocumentaryBy Graham Readfearn on Nov 19, 2015 One unambiguous video title states that “Climate Policies kill. People will die”, while others scream how moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions “devalues human life” and “kills thousands” in Britain.All this extremist language comes from the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, a US-based Christian evangelical group that rejects climate science and is preparing to release a new documentary in the coming weeks.Cornwall has been posting preview clips under the banner “Greener on the other Side: Climate Alarmism – Fact, Not Fear” on its YouTube page.The views in the clips are extreme but represent a grab bag of climate science denialist talking points, ignoring the mountains of evidence gathered from multiple sources over many decades of the impacts of loading the atmosphere and the oceans with carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.The clips cut across energy policy and climate science and claim, amongst other things, there is no evidence to support cuts to the use of fossil fuels which are beneficial to the planet. In one segment, the alliance’s supposed climate experts promote creationism.  “There has to be a designer – a creator behind this,” says David Legates.The Cornwall Alliance is preparing to release the full DVD at the end of November under the title “Where the Grass is Greener”, only days before another climate science denial documentary, Climate Hustle, gets its premiere in Paris.The two films also share a number of experts, including statistician William Briggs, climate denial activist Tom Harris, Australian “sceptic” Bob Carter, British peer Lord Christopher Monckton and blogger Anthony Watts.But the similarities between Greener on the Other Side and Climate Hustle do not stop there, because both films share the same director in Chris Rogers and were produced by his company – CDR Communications.Rogers’ CDR Communications was also behind another Cornwall Alliance extremist video effort in 2010 — Resisting the Green Dragon — that claimed environmentalism was a “false religion” and that it was a cover story for a “global government” power grab.Rogers is also the chairman of The James Partnership, the umbrella arm that includes the Cornwall Alliance as one of its projects and pays the salary of Calvin Beisner, Cornwall’s founder and spokesperson.While Cornwall Alliance will be unlikely to gain traction for its DVD outside of evangelical Christian circles, Marc Morano has much greater ambitions for Climate Hustle.Climate science denialist Morano is the bombastic communications director for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT).As DeSmog reported, after a “red carpet premier” of the film that Morano modestly claims will “rock the climate debate”, CFACT wants a US cinema release for the documentary, followed by DVD sales and then distribution in schools and colleges.In the most recent trailer for Climate Hustle, CDR Communications staffer Anna Milograno is credited as the editor, with Rogers as the producer and director. In two earlier trailers, CDR Communications staffers Ian Jelliffe and Jay Kim were also credited, alongside “director of photography Joseph Rossell”.Rossell is a research analyst at the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) who has been writing stories attacking climate science on his IRD blog Juicy Ecumenism and also on the NewsBusters website. NewsBusters is a project of the Media Research Center (MRC), which describes itself as “America’s leading media watchdog in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.”Morano has previously credited MRC as helping to produce Climate Hustle by providing access to archive news footage.  Morano once worked as a journalist at Cybercast News Service, another MRC project.Both MRC and CFACT have previously accepted grants from oil company ExxonMobil, which is currently under investigation by the New York attorney general for allegedly lying about the risks of climate change to the public and investors.In the latest Cornwall Alliance film, Paul Driessen, CFACT‘s senior policy advisor, says: “I’m often accused of taking fossil fuel money – I’m still waiting for the check from ExxonMobil”.Understanding the links between Morano, Climate Hustle and evangelical religion reveals an irony.  Morano and other climate science deniers will frequently attempt to disparage climate science by comparing it to a kind of religion, implying that they are blinded by faith.Yet the very people Morano employed to produce his new documentary are fundamentalist Christians with a warped view on science. The one being blinded by faith, it seems, is Morano himself.</div><div>=</div>=2010
<a href="https://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/an-evangelical-backlash-against-environmentalism/">https://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/an-evangelical-backlash-against-environmentalism/</a>over the last decade, many evangelical Christians have embraced the doctrine called <a href="https://www.baptistcreationcare.org/node/1">creation care,</a> which uses a scriptural basis to promote good stewardship of the earth and its resources. For these believers, problems like climate change threaten to greatly intensify third-world poverty, making actions to reduce global warming emissions an urgent Christian issue.“We are convinced that evangelicals must engage this issue without any further lingering over the basic reality of the problem or humanity’s responsibility to address it,” hundreds of evangelical leaders <a href="https://www.cpjustice.org/stories/storyReader$1199">declared</a> in a 2006 statement on climate change.But while a growing number of local and national nonprofit groups have <a href="https://www.blessedearth.org/">formed</a> to spread the “creation care” message, an increasingly fierce backlash against the mingling of Christianity and environmentalism has emerged from other quarters of the evangelical movement.Leading the Christian counterargument on the environment is the Cornwall Alliance, an evangelical nonprofit that strenuously opposes action on climate change and describes the environmental movement as a “false religion” that Christians must avoid at all costs.This December, the group released a 12-part educational video series, <a href="https://www.cornwallalliance.org/press/read/sounding-the-alarm-about-dangerous-environmental-extremism/">“Resisting the Green Dragon,”</a> warning Christians that radical environmentalism “is striving to put America, and the world, under its destructive control.”The video series includes appearances by Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council; Tom Minnery, senior vice president of Focus on the Family; and other conservative evangelical Christian leaders.The series takes direct aim at the “creation care” movement, citing a “well-funded effort to infiltrate churches” by groups with beliefs that are “deadly to the gospel of Jesus Christ.”“Some of what goes under the name of ‘creation care,’ even in evangelical circles, is infected by the false worldview and theology of secular and pagan religious environmentalism,” Calvin Beisner, founder of the Cornwall Alliance, said in a statement accompanying the videos.In an e-mailed response to questions, Mr. Beisner said that “creation care” environmentalists and evangelical politicians, like <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-31-brownback-2008_x.htm">Senator Sam Brownback</a> of Kansas and Mike Huckabee, the former presidential candidate and Arkansas governor, who have <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aYDB2MPIf0EU&refer=politics">advocated for action</a> on climate change, probably did not understand the science behind the positions they were advancing, and were parroting alarmist views propagated by radical environmental groups and the mainstream media.Mr. Beisner wrote that he had so far not met a single evangelical “who has been able to rehearse the most basic arguments pro and con regarding the most important physical issue” in the global warming debate, “which is climate sensitivity.”He added, “That suggests to me that most are embracing conclusions without understanding the arguments.”Mr. Beisner, a former professor of theology and a ruling elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, argued that the science is still unsettled on whether greenhouse gases are warming the climate and that projections of dangerous human-driven warming in the future are flawed and unreliable. But an “Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming” on the Cornwall Alliance’s Web site urges all evangelicals to accept that recent global warming is natural and that mankind is incapable of altering the climate.“We believe Earth and its ecosystems — created by God’s intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence — are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory,” the group’s <a href="https://www.cornwallalliance.org/articles/read/an-evangelical-declaration-on-global-warming/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">declaration reads</a>. “Earth’s climate system is no exception. Recent global warming is one of many natural cycles of warming and cooling in geologic history.”
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http://resistingthegreendragon.com./

<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/calvin-beisner">http://www.desmogblog.com/calvin-beisner</a>

===<div id="intro" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/27/pope-francis-edict-climate-change-us-rightwing" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-weight: bold;">Pope Francis will be issuing a rare encyclical on the environment and climate change next year</a>, and it's pretty clear that his message will not be "Drill, baby, drill."According to the Guardian story, Francis will urge "all Catholics to take action on moral and scientific grounds."Along the lines of what he said in October: <blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.4; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top-style: solid; background: rgb(246, 243, 236);">The monopolising of lands, deforestation, the appropriation of water, inadequate agro-toxics are some of the evils that tear man from the land of his birth. Climate change, the loss of biodiversity and deforestation are already showing their devastating effects in the great cataclysms we witness.</blockquote>Unlike in other matters through the many centuries, the Catholic Church has essentially accepted the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change.But some Catholics, especially in Fox "News"-deluded America, will have none of that, at least according to one of the hundreds of Koch-funded conservatives on offer to journalists to give the polluters' point of view.More, below.      Calvin Beisner of the <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/06/19/206237/the-oily-operators-behind-the-religious-climate-change-disinformation-front-group-cornwall-alliance/" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Cornwall Alliance</a>, a Religious Right group that specializes in promoting pollution, has been well-paid by the Kochs and other polluters to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-belief-climate-change-insult-god#sthash.FcPsLydC.dpuf" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">say things like this</a>:</div><div id="body" class="article-body" style="margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.2px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.4; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top-style: solid; background: rgb(246, 243, 236);">[to believe in climate change] "really is an insult to God ... and it will eventually lead to tyranny."</blockquote>Here's what he gave the Guardian for "balance": <blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.4; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top-style: solid; background: rgb(246, 243, 236);">Francis will also be opposed by the powerful US evangelical movement, said Calvin Beisner, spokesman for the conservative Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, which has declared the US environmental movement to be “un-biblical” and a false religion.“The pope should back off,” he said. “The Catholic church is correct on the ethical principles but has been misled on the science. It follows that the policies the Vatican is promoting are incorrect. Our position reflects the views of millions of evangelical Christians in the US.”</blockquote>This is interesting on several levels.1) Beisner is not Catholic, so why would a reporter ask him about the Pope? Other than that he is sure to return your email/call, since that's his job.2) Beisner's grift is getting polluters to fund his propagandizing of white conservative evangelical Protestants like himself. Preaching to the conservative choir is a solid meal ticket these days. But it's not a Catholic choir in this case.3) A minority of US Catholics are right-wing conservatives, and some of them have lots of media cred. Were none of them available (on presumably short notice) to espouse climate change denial?4) Why would Francis care what "millions of evangelical Christians in the US" think about his endorsing the climate change consensus? If he thinks it's the right thing to do, he will do it, even if millions of American Catholics oppose him.5) The "false religion" bit is ironic, since that's a charge evangelical Protestants have been aiming at the Catholic Church for 500 years.Besides the encyclical, Francis plans to convene a summit of world religious leaders and speak to the United Nations General Assembly, all with the goal of influencing a major UN meeting on climate change in Paris next year.Climate change will become a much bigger story next year, in good part due to Pope Francis.</div>

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<h1 class="title">Beisner: Environmentalists' Objective Is To Kill 95% Of Humanity</h1>

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Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 6/10/2011 2:11 pm

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Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance spoke to Bryan Fischer yesterday on <a href="http://www.afa.net/Radio/show.aspx?id=2147490466&tab=video&video=2147507154">American Family Radio</a> about the evil plans that environmentalists have in store for humanity. Beisner, <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/the-green-dragon-slayers-how-the-religious-right-and-the-corporate-right-are-joining-fo#relgpower">who has his PhD in Scottish History and whose group is tied to energy companies</a>, previously worked with Fischer and other Religious Right leaders on the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beware-green-dragon">“Resisting The Green Dragon” miniseries</a> which attacked the supposedly <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/the-green-dragon-slayers-how-the-religious-right-and-the-corporate-right-are-joining-fo#planningenv">anti-Christian</a>, <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/the-green-dragon-slayers-how-the-religious-right-and-the-corporate-right-are-joining-fo#crocodile">anti-human</a> environmentalist movement.

Last time Beisner was on Fischer’s program, Beisner said that the deadly tornadoes in the American South were <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-tornadoes-were-just-taste-gods-judgment">“little tastes” of God’s judgment</a>. Yesterday, the two discussed how they believe environmentalists are earth-worshippers who are deliberately destroying the economy and that climate change is a myth, lauding Rick Santorum for <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-global-warming-patently-absurd">calling global warming a “patently absurd,” liberal plot</a>.

Fischer asked Beisner if the environmental movement wanted a return “into dark paganism” and Beisner agreed, saying that the end-game of environmentalism “would require the disappearance of about 95% of the human race.”

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akxnLhg_HNY">Watch:</a>

relapse into dark pagganism, PRE AGRICULTURAL SOC b/c hu on a par with all ofther species, thus 95% go

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<h3>Filed Under</h3>

<h3>Organizations:</h3>

<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/cornwall-alliance">Cornwall Alliance</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/religious-right">Religious Right</a></div>

<h3>People:</h3>

<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/bryan-fischer">Bryan Fischer</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/calvin-beisner">Calvin Beisner</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/rick-santorum">Rick Santorum</a></div>

<h3>Topics:</h3>

<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/climate-change">Climate change</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/economy">economy</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/green-dragon">green dragon</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/religious-right">Religious Right</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/video">Video</a></div>

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<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-environmentalists-objective-kill-95-humanity">http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-environmentalists-objective-kill-95-humanity</a>

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<h1>E. Calvin Beisner</h1>

<h2>Credentials</h2>

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<li>Ph.D, Scottish History, University of St. Andrews (2003). <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/calvin-beisner#s1">[1]</a></li>

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<h2>Background</h2>

E. Calvin Beisner is a former Professor of Social Ethics at Knox Theological Seminary. He was a member of the faculty as an associate professor of historical theology and social ethics from July 2000 through December 2007, but left Knox at the end of 2007.

Beisner is known as a "leading evangelical climate-change skeptic," and was a founder of the <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cornwall_Alliance">Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation</a>. According to Beisner's personal website, he was a ruling elder of the <a target="blank" href="http://www.pcanet.org/">Presbyterian Church in America.</a>

In May 2007 Beisner left the PCA to help plant a new Orthodox Presbyterian Church congregation. He's currently serving on the pastoral staff of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.holytrinityopc.org/">Holy Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC)</a>.

<h2>Stance on Climate Change</h2>

Beisner is a signatory to the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cornwallalliance.org/articles/read/the-cornwall-declaration-on-environmental-stewardship/">The Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship</a>, which states that there are "Some unfounded or undue concerns include fears of destructive manmade global warming, overpopulation, and rampant species loss."

<h2>Key Quotes</h2>

"I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive." <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/calvin-beisner#s2">[2]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/calvin-beisner#s3">[3]</a>

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<h2>Key Deeds</h2>

May, 2010

Beisner was a speaker at the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute">Heartland Institute</a>'s 2010 International Conference on Climate Change. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/calvin-beisner#s4">[4]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/calvin-beisner#s5">[5]</a>

2010

The Cornwall Alliance released a <a target="_blank" href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/06/15/cornwall-alliance-frontgroup/">campaign</a> to combat popular views regarding global warming. The campaign is titled "Resisting the Green Dragon" and includes a video series described as a "biblical response to one of the greatest deceptions of our day."

The series, designed by Beisner, portrays those who belief in climate change as following a "false religion." <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/calvin-beisner#s1">[1]</a>

March 25, 2009

At a 2009 House hearing titled "Adaption Policies on Climate Legislation," Beisner <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jHm-RxNO07RCipnASPBI9hdSiCuQ">expressed</a> his "balanced biblical view" on climate change. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/calvin-beisner#s2">[2]</a>

A key speaker at the hearing, who Beisner also points to for his evidence, is prominent climate change skeptic <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/christopher-monckton">Christopher Monckton</a>.

Beisner proclaims that he is "convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive, devising mischief by decree."

According to Beisner, "These findings, opposite the expectations of the IPCC, are consistent with the Biblical world." He describes the IPCC's view as "Atheistic."

March, 2008

Beisner was a speaker at the the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change.

His speech was titled, "Scientific Orthodoxies, Politicized Science, and Catastrophic Manmade Warming: Challenges to Evangelicals Navigating Rough Waters in Science and Policy." <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/calvin-beisner#s6">[6]</a>

July, 2006

Beisner co-authored a Interfaith Stewardship Alliance (ISA) report refuting the work of an opposing religious organization called the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.christiansandclimate.org/">Evangelical Climate Initiative</a>.

The ISA report was titled A Call to Truth, Prudence and Protection of the Poor: an Evangelical Response to Global Warming (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cornwallalliance.org/docs/a-call-to-truth-prudence-and-protection-of-the-poor.pdf">PDF</a>).

Along with the report was a letter of endorsement signed by numerous representatives of various organizations, including six that have received a total of $2.32 million in donations from oil-giant ExxonMobil over the last three years.

Co-authors of the report included <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/paul-driessen">Paul K. Driessen</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ross-mckitrick">Ross McKitrick</a>, and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer">Roy W. Spencer</a>.

October 2006

Beisner debated the primary author of the Evangelical Climate Initiative's "'Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.'"

2005

At the time of ISA's launch, the organization released a report (<a target="_blank" href="http://wsw.cornwallalliance.org/docs/an-examination-of-the-scientific-ethical-and-theological-implications-of-climate-change-policy.pdf">PDF</a>) titled, "An Examination of the Scientific, Ethical and Theological Implications of Climate Change Policy."

The purpose of the report was to "examine the scientific questions surrounding global warming, carbon reductions, and puts forth Biblical principles that can guide Christians in making policy decisions on the environment."

The report was written by Calvin Beisner, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/1397">Roy Spencer</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen">Paul Driessen.</a>

<h2>Affiliations</h2>

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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cornwall_Alliance">The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation </a>— Founder and National Spokesperson. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/calvin-beisner#s7">[7]</a>

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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_for_a_Constructive_Tomorrow">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)</a> — Advisory Board member. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/calvin-beisner#s8">[8]</a>

</li>

</ul>

<h2>Publications</h2>

Although Beisner has not written any peer-reviewed papers on the subject of climate change, he has written many articles criticizing the science of global warming in the context of the Evangelical faith, including:

<ul>

<li>"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cornwallalliance.org/articles/read/global-warming-why-evangelicals-should-not-be-alarmed/">Global Warming: Why Evangelicals Should Not Be Alarmed</a>" and</li>

<li>"<a target="_blank" href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:qEAA6ebCg1gJ:www.ecalvinbeisner.com/freearticles/DeepEcol%26GlobalWarming.pdf+Deep+Ecology,+Neo-paganism,+and+the+Irrationalism+of+Global+Warming+Hysteria&hl=en&gl=ca&sig=AHIEtbSbtdk0vfbq0SPXxuWkadWh8F0k5A">Deep Ecology, Neo-paganism, and the Irrationalism of Global Warming Hysteria</a>."</li>

</ul>

A full list of his publications is available <a target="_blank" href="http://ecalvinbeisner.com/">on his website</a>.

In 2005, Beisner <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ecalvinbeisner.com/freearticles/DoverIDRuling.pdf">wrote an article (PDF)</a>  criticizing a judicial ruling barring intelligent design from a biology class curriculum. He wrote: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/calvin-beisner#s9">[9]</a>

[t]he aggressive, extreme secularism that would reject all reference in biology studies to intelligent design of irreducibly complex structures is more patently unscientific and more obviously religious than what most people have encountered in discussing evolution and creation. Perhaps a few more will waken now to the fact that the public schools are the enemy, not the friend, and not even a neutral party to Christians, and therefore (a) remove their kids from them and (b) stop working with them." (emphasis added)

In 1990, Beisner <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ecalvinbeisner.com/freearticles/AidsandRationality.pdf">wrote a piece</a> criticizing the need for further federal spending on AIDS research, treatment and education. In the article Beisner asks, "...is it rational to allocate $3.5 billion dollars to fight a disease that is almost 100 percent self-inflicted by people intent on immoral and irrational behavior?" (emphasis added) [10]

Beisner goes on to claim that the "simple fact is that militant homosexuals have a potent lobby on Capitol Hill and at the White House. They know how to get politicians' attention. Only that can explain the irrational policies that have prevailed toward AIDS..." (emphasis added).

<h2>Resources</h2>

<ol>

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<a name="s1" id="s1"> </a>"E. CALVIN BEISNER, PH.D." (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ecalvinbeisner.com/bio.pdf">PDF</a>), ecalvinbeisner.com.

</li>

<li>

<a name="s2" id="s2"> </a>Testimony of Dr. E. Calvin Beisner to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the United States House of Representatives, Wednesday, March 25, 2009 (<a target="_blank" href="http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090325/testimony_beisner.pdf">PDF</a>).

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<a name="s3" id="s3"> </a>"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jHm-RxNO07RCipnASPBI9hdSiCuQ">Climate change debunkers take stage in US Congress</a>," AFP, Mar 25, 2009.

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<li>

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=231" name="s4" id="s4">ExxonSecrets Factsheet: E. Calvin Beisner</a>.

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<a name="s5" id="s5"> </a>"4th International Conference on Climate Change" (<a target="_blank" href="http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/LGOULD/Heartland%20Fourth%20International%20Conf_FullConferenceProgram.pdf">PDF</a>), The Heartland Institute. Retrieved from University of Hartford web server, March 1, 2012.

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<li>

<a name="s6" id="s6"> </a>"<a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E.Calvin_Beisner">E. Calvin Beisner</a>," SourceWatch.

</li>

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<a name="s7" id="s7"> </a>"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cornwallalliance.org/blog/item/prominent-signers-of-an-evangelical-declaration-on-global-warming/">Prominent Signers of An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming</a>," Cornwall Alliance, January 14, 2010.

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<a name="s8" id="s8"> </a>"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cfact.org/about/1551/CFACT-Board-of-Advisors">CFACT Board of Advisors," CFACT</a>. Accessed November 29, 2011.

</li>

<li>

<a name="s9" id="s9"> </a>E. Calvin Beisner. "Aggressive Secularism Evident in Judge’s Ruling Barring Intelligent Design from Dover Schools’ Biology Curriculum" (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ecalvinbeisner.com/freearticles/DoverIDRuling.pdf">PDF</a>), ecalvinbeisner.com.

</li>

<li>

<a name="s10" id="s10"> </a>E. Calvin Beisner. "AIDS and Rationality" (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ecalvinbeisner.com/freearticles/AidsandRationality.pdf">PDF</a>), ecalvinbeisner.com.

</li>

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"<a target="_blank" href="http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/news/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6912">Press Release: Mankind Always Adapts to Climate, Barton Says</a>," House Energy & Commerce Committee, March 25, 2009.

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"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cornwallalliance.org/about/board-of-advisors/">Board of Advisors,</a>" Cornwall Alliance. Accessed November 29, 2011.

</li>

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E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. is a theologian, historian and spokesperson for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Cornwall_Alliance_for_the_Stewardship_of_Creation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation (page does not exist)">The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation</a>. According to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute">Heartland Institute</a>, Beisner is "well-versed in the science of global warming as well as in how the issue gets handled in religion and politics. ... In October 2006, he debated the primary author of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Evangelical_Climate_Initiative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Evangelical Climate Initiative (page does not exist)">Evangelical Climate Initiative</a>'s 'Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.'" <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E.Calvin_Beisner#cite_note-0">[1]</a> Beisner's speech at the Heartland Institute's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/2008_International_Conference_on_Climate_Change" title="2008 International Conference on Climate Change" class="mw-redirect">2008 International Conference on Climate Change</a> was titled, "Scientific Orthodoxies, Politicized Science, and Catastrophic Manmade Warming: Challenges to Evangelicals Navigating Rough Waters in Science and Policy." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E.Calvin_Beisner#cite_note-1">[2]</a>He is also a former Professor of Social Ethics at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Knox_Theological_Seminary&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Knox Theological Seminary (page does not exist)">Knox Theological Seminary</a> and a lead organizer of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Interfaith_Stewardship_Alliance" title="Interfaith Stewardship Alliance" class="mw-redirect">Interfaith Stewardship Alliance</a> (ISA), a group of clergy skeptical of climate change. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E.Calvin_Beisner#cite_note-2">[3]</a> Beisner is known in some circles as the "leading evangelical climate-change skeptic," although he has no climatology background or experience. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E.Calvin_Beisner#cite_note-3">[4]</a>

<ul>

<li>Advisory Board, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_for_a_Constructive_Tomorrow" title="Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E._Calvin_Beisner#cite_note-4">[5]</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E._Calvin_Beisner#Beisner_and_the_ISA">1 Beisner and the ISA</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E._Calvin_Beisner#International_Conference_on_Climate_Change">2 International Conference on Climate Change</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E._Calvin_Beisner#SourceWatch_resources">3 SourceWatch resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E._Calvin_Beisner#References">4 References</a></li>

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<h2>Beisner and the ISA</h2>

Beisner, along with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roy_Spencer" title="Roy Spencer">Roy Spencer</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_Driessen" title="Paul Driessen">Paul Driessen</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ross_McKitrick" title="Ross McKitrick">Ross McKitrick</a>, co-authored a report for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ISA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ISA (page does not exist)">ISA</a> in July of 2006, "refuting the work of an opposing religious organization called the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Evangelical_Climate_Initiative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Evangelical Climate Initiative (page does not exist)">Evangelical Climate Initiative</a>." Along with the report was "a letter of endorsement signed by numerous representatives of various organizations, including 6 that have recieved a total of $2.32 million in donations from oil-giant <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil" class="mw-redirect">ExxonMobil</a> over the last three years. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E._Calvin_Beisner#cite_note-5">[6]</a>

<h2>International Conference on Climate Change</h2>

Beisner was a speaker at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Conference_on_Climate_Change%282009%29" title="International Conference on Climate Change (2009)" class="mw-redirect">International Conference on Climate Change (2009)</a> organized by the conservative think tank the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute">Heartland Institute</a>. His presentation was titled "Human Health Effects of Warming and Cooling." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E.Calvin_Beisner#cite_note-6">[7]</a>

<h2>SourceWatch resources</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global_warming_skeptics" title="Global warming skeptics">Global warming skeptics</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SourceWatch:Project:Creating_Articles_on_Sponsors_and_Speakers_at_The_2008_International_Conference_on_Climate_Change" title="SourceWatch:Project:Creating Articles on Sponsors and Speakers at The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change">SourceWatch:Project:Creating Articles on Sponsors and Speakers at The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute">Heartland Institute</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_2008_International_Conference_on_Climate_Change" title="The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change" class="mw-redirect">The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change</a></li>

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<h2>References</h2>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E._Calvin_Beisner#cite_ref-0">↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heartland.org/NewYork08/ConferenceBios.pdf">Conference speakers: 2008 International Conference on Climate Change (PDF)</a>," Heartland Institute, accessed March 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E._Calvin_Beisner#cite_ref-1">↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heartland.org/NewYork08/ConferenceSchedule.pdf">2008 International Conference on Climate Change (PDF)</a>," Heartland Institute, accessed March 2008</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E._Calvin_Beisner#cite_ref-2">↑</a> Mark Bergin, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://byfaithonline.com/page/in-the-world/global-warming-and-christian-stewardship">"Global Warming and Christian Stewardship"</a>, byFaith Magazine, August 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E._Calvin_Beisner#cite_ref-3">↑</a> David P. Gushee, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1585&Itemid=119">"Opinion: the End of the Hummer Age"</a>, Associated Baptist Press, October 2006</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E._Calvin_Beisner#cite_ref-4">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cfact.org/site/advisors.asp">Advisory Board</a>, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, accessed September 19, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E._Calvin_Beisner#cite_ref-5">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/calvin-beisner">"Calvin Beisner"</a> Desmogblog.com, accessed March, 2009</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E.Calvin_Beisner#cite_ref-6">↑</a> Cal Beisner, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/proceedings.html">"Human Health Effects of Warming and Cooling"</a>, Presentation to the Heartland Institute's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Conference_on_Climate_Change%282009%29" title="International Conference on Climate Change (2009)" class="mw-redirect">International Conference on Climate Change (2009)</a>, March 10, 2009. (A copy of Dunn's presentation is not available).</li>

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=wiki 4 22<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Calvin_Beisner">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Calvin_Beisner</a>ernest Calvin Beisner (born 6 December 1955) is an American Christian interdisciplinary scholar and writer in the fields of theology, Christian apologetics, church history, political philosophy, and environmental ethics and stewardship. He is the founder and national spokesman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall_Alliance" title="Cornwall Alliance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Calvin_Beisner#cite_note-Cornwall-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a>Beisner earned a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies in Religion and Philosophy from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southern_California" title="University of Southern California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Southern California</a> in 1978, an M.A. in Society with Specialization in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_ethics" title="Economic ethics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Economic Ethics</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_College,Los_Angeles" title="International College, Los Angeles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">International College, Los Angeles</a> in 1983, and a Ph.D. in Scottish History with a dissertation on the life and political thought of the 17th-century Scottish Covenanter lawyer and politician Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees (1635-1713) from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_St.Andrews" class="mw-redirect" title="University of St. Andrews" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of St. Andrews</a> in 2003. He taught interdisciplinary studies at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_College" title="Covenant College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Covenant College</a> from 1992 to 2000 and historical theology and social ethics at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox_Theological_Seminary" title="Knox Theological Seminary" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Knox Theological Seminary</a> from 2000 to 2008.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Calvin_Beisner#cite_note-Cornwall-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> He has been a fellow of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_on_Religion_and_Democracy" title="Institute on Religion and Democracy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Institute on Religion and Democracy</a> and an adjunct fellow of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acton_Institute" title="Acton Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Calvin_Beisner#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> Beisner has been an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder(Christianity)" title="Elder (Christianity)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">elder</a> in both the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_in_America" title="Presbyterian Church in America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Presbyterian Church in America</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Presbyterian_Church" title="Orthodox Presbyterian Church" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Orthodox Presbyterian Church</a>, and is a former editor of Discipleship Journal.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cornwallalliance.org/about/what-we-do/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">Beisner believes</a> that environmental stewardship consistent with Christian worldview, theology, and ethics involves people working together to enhance the fruitfulness, the beauty, and the safety of the earth, to the glory of God and the benefit of their neighbors, thus addressing the two Great Commandments to love God and to love neighbor. The Heritage Foundation gave him the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/global-warming-skeptics-receive-awards?source=policybot" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">"Outstanding Spokesperson for Faith, Science, and Stewardship"</a> award at the Heartland Institute's Ninth International Conference on Climate Change in 2014. His <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cornwallalliance.org/about/who-we-are/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">biography at the Cornwall Alliance's website</a> states that he has lectured at universities, seminaries, conferences, and churches in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia; testified as an expert witness on the ethics and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_climate_change" title="Economics of climate change" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">economics of climate change</a> and climate and energy policy before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives; briefed the White House Council on Environmental Policy; and presented a paper to a scholarly colloquium on climate change of the Pontifical Institute for Justice and Peace at the Vatican in Rome in 2007. 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<h1 class="title-news">Calvin Beisner, Evangelical Christian, Claims Environmentalism Great Threat To Civilization</h1>

The Huffington Post  |  By <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/meredith-bennettsmith" rel="author">Meredith Bennett-Smith</a> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/calvin-beisner-environmentalism-greatest-threat-civilization_n_2919756.html?view=print&comm_ref=false#" class="fb-tooltip" style=" display: inline;"> </a> Posted: 03/21/2013 11:33 am EDT

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Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance recently explained why environmentalism is the 'greatest threat to Western Civilization.' Here, Beisner delivers a speech at Biola University in 2009.

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A representative for an evangelical group that doesn't believe in man-made climate change has suggested that the modern environmental movement is harming civilization.

Speaking on the Janet Mefferd Show on March 18, Dr. Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance laid out four reasons why <a href="http://janetmefferdpremium.com/2013/03/18/janet-mefferd-radio-show-20130318-hr-3/" target="_hplink">environmentalism is "the greatest threat to Western civilization."</a>

Environmentalism is insidious, Beisnser explained, and it dangerously "speaks to the inherent spiritual yearnings of human souls and it provides plausible answers to dogged questions." It also incorporates the similarly dangerous threats of utopian Marxism, the secular humanism and the "religious fanaticism of jihad."

Lastly, "environmentalism encompasses all the vague spiritualities that have frankly overwhelmed secular humanism in the West and now threaten the Christian faith."

The <a href="http://www.cornwallalliance.org/" target="_hplink"> Cornwall Alliance</a> is made up of activists that are "committed to bringing a balanced Biblical view of stewardship ?!  to the critical issues of environment and development." According to the group's website, members believe "Recent global warming is one of many natural cycles of warming and cooling in geologic history."

While the majority of climate researchers believe <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/06/04/1003187107.abstract" target="hplink">climate change is caused by human activity</a>, a 2011 poll found that Tea Party members and white evangelicals, such as Beisner, were statistically <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/evangelicals-evolution-climate-change-poll_n_975699.html" target="hplink">less likely to believe in evolution and climate change </a>than most Americans.

Beisner is a popular guest on conservative evangelical shows that promote an anti-climate change agenda.

In November, he told the hosts of the American Family Association "Today's Issues" program that humans could not possibly be causing the "<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-belief-climate-change-insult-god" target="_hplink">catastrophic consequences for the climate</a>" warned by global warming scientists.

"That doesn't fit well with the biblical teaching that the earth is the result of the omniscient design, the omnipotent creation and the faithful sustaining of the God of the Bible. So it really is an insult to God," Beisner said.

The professor, <a href="http://ecalvinbeisner.com/bio.pdf" target="hplink">who has a doctorate in Scottish history,</a> was also <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/arts/television/11gate.html?r=0" target="_hplink">featured in Bill Moyers' 2006 documentary</a> "Is God Green?"

During interviews for the special, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/print/beisner_print.html" target="_hplink">Beisner said that Genesis dictates</a> humans should "Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it." This disproves the opinion of the "anti-population growth" activists, according to Beisner, who adds that pollution is a natural byproduct of reality.

It should be noted that not all evangelical Christians oppose global warming reforms. Groups like the <a href="http://www.yecaction.org/" target="hplink">Young Evangelicals for Climate Action</a> take the stance <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/is-climate-change-a-christian-responsibility-evangelicals-call-obama-and-romney-to-action-83613/" target="hplink">that it is a Christian's duty to protect the planet</a>.

(<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-explains-why-environmentalism-represents-greatest-threat-western-civilization" target="_hplink">h/t Right Wing Watch</a>)

View the video below to hear Calvin Beisner speak at Biola University in 2009:

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<div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-beisner-describe-doctrines-religion-environmentalism">Fischer & Beisner Describe the Doctrines of the Religion of Environmentalism</a></div>

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Friday 06/01/2012, 5:03pm

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<div class="views-field-view-node">On Bryan Fischer's radio program yesterday, Fischer and Cal Beisner discussed how environmentalism was becoming the established religion in America.  How exactly is environmentalism a religion, you ask? Well, as Beisner explained, it has its own doctrines, its own holy day (Earth Day,) its own food taboos, sacrifice rituals (recycling,) paradoxical beliefs, sacred structures (recycling bins,) and it proselytizes.  And, as Fischer added, just like with the early church, heretics (i.e. global warming deniers like Fischer and Beisner) are punished and excommunicated: <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-beisner-describe-doctrines-religion-environmentalism">MORE ></a></div>

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<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-and-green-dragon-faith-based-attacks-environmentalism-nothing-new-religious-right">Santorum and the 'Green Dragon': Faith-Based Attacks on Environmentalism Nothing New from the Religious Right</a>  BIZZARO

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SUBMITTED BY: Miranda Blue, Tuesday 02/21/2012, 1:13pm

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<div class="views-field-view-node">Republican presidential frontrunner Rick Santorum raised a lot of eyebrows this weekend when he attacked environmentalism as anti-Biblical and said that President Obama has a “phony theology” that sides with “radical environmentalists” over the Bible. While it was remarkable to hear these theories coming from a major presidential candidate, the theories themselves are nothing new. Instead, Santorum was drawing from a dual line of attack on environmentalists and progressive people of faith that has recently come into... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-and-green-dragon-faith-based-attacks-environmentalism-nothing-new-religious-right">MORE ></a></div>

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<div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-epa-promoting-lorax-violates-separation-church-and-state">Beisner: EPA Promoting 'The Lorax' Violates the Separation of Church and State</a></div>

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 02/13/2012, 11:07am

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<div class="views-field-view-node">Back in 2010, the Cornwall Alliance released a 12-part DVD series entitled "Resisting the Green Dragon" featuring a who's who of Religious Right leaders attacking environmentalism and warning that it represents a dire threat to Christianity: Calvin Beisner, the founder of the Cornwall Alliance, has become the Religious Right's favorite "expert" in fighting any environmental effort and a regular guest on Bryan Fischer's radio program, despite the fact that his scientific credentials appear to be limited to possessing a Ph.D. in Scottish History. Beisner is now... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-epa-promoting-lorax-violates-separation-church-and-state">MORE ></a></div>

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<div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/according-focus-family-its-not-pro-life-protect-newborns-mercury-poisoning">According to Focus on the Family, it's not 'Pro-Life' to Protect Newborns from Mercury Poisoning</a></div>

<div class="views-field-path">SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Friday 12/16/2011, 6:00pm</div>

<div class="views-field-view-node">Like David Barton, who has no academic training as a historian but is the Religious Right’s point person on American history, Calvin Beinser of the Cornwall Alliance has no scientific credentials but has become the go-to person for right-wing activists on questions of science, particularly climate change. While he lacks any credentials what Beisner does have is close ties to organizations financed by the energy industry and a history of attacking scientists, spreading misinformation, and fueling fears that the environmental movement is a pagan plot to destroy Christianity and kill... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/according-focus-family-its-not-pro-life-protect-newborns-mercury-poisoning">MORE ></a></div>

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<div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-rejects-koch-funded-study-confirming-climate-change-science">Beisner Rejects Koch-Funded Study Confirming Climate Change Science</a></div>

<div class="views-field-view-node">Calvin Beisner is running low on allies in his effort to deny climate change. Beisner, the head of the Cornwall Alliance, is trying to stop other evangelical Christians from supporting efforts to curtail climate change with warnings that scientists are liars and environmental protection will destroy Christianity, promote mass genocide and hurt the poor. But a recent study sponsored by the Charles Koch Foundation that was meant to prove that scientists were twisting data on climate change actually confirmed the science behind climate change. The physicist behind the study, climate skeptic... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-rejects-koch-funded-study-confirming-climate-change-science">MORE ></a></div>

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<div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-attacks-evangelicals-who-want-reduce-mercury-poisoning">Beisner Attacks Evangelicals Who Want To Reduce Mercury Poisoning</a></div>

<div class="views-field-path">SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Wednesday 10/19/2011, 5:00pm</div>

<div class="views-field-view-node">Energy industry apologist Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance appeared on Janet Parshall’s radio show yesterday to once again do the bidding of polluters. As we’ve reported in The Green Dragon Slayers, Beisner has no scientific credentials but is closely tied to energy companies. During the interview, Beisner directed his animus as the Evangelical Environmental Network, which launched a pledge to combat mercury poisoning: One in six babies, over 700,000 each year, are born with harmful levels of mercury in their blood, and coal-burning power plants are the largest source of... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-attacks-evangelicals-who-want-reduce-mercury-poisoning">MORE ></a></div>

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<div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/perkins-warns-government-promotion-same-sex-relations-population-control">Perkins Warns Of Government "Promotion Of Same-Sex Relations" For Population Control</a></div>

<div class="views-field-path">SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Thursday 10/13/2011, 10:40am</div>

<div class="views-field-view-node">Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance appeared on Janet Parshall’s radio show In The Market on Tuesday to discuss the “Green Dragon” film series which was made by Beisner’s group and hosted by Parshall. As we discussed in our report The ‘Green Dragon’ Slayers: How the Religious Right and the Corporate Right are Joining Forces to Fight Environmental Protection, the “Green Dragon” series represents efforts by the Religious Right and the Corporate Right to paint environmentalism as anti-Christian and ungodly: During the radio show, Parshall... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/perkins-warns-government-promotion-same-sex-relations-population-control">MORE ></a></div>

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<div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-environmentalists-objective-kill-95-humanity">Beisner: Environmentalists' Objective Is To Kill 95% Of Humanity</a></div>

<div class="views-field-view-node">Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance spoke to Bryan Fischer yesterday on American Family Radio about the evil plans that environmentalists have in store for humanity. Beisner, who has his PhD in Scottish History and whose group is tied to energy companies, previously worked with Fischer and other Religious Right leaders on the “Resisting The Green Dragon” miniseries which attacked the supposedly anti-Christian, anti-human environmentalist movement. Last time Beisner was on Fischer’s program, Beisner said that the deadly tornadoes in the American South were “little... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-environmentalists-objective-kill-95-humanity">MORE ></a></div>

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cop15And suddenly it's old-home week. Here's the famous Steve Milloy, who turns out to be a youthful guy with a bulldog chest and an air of permanent irony. "He's the godfather," Morano says.Milloy laughs: hahahaha. He has a very distinctive laugh, flat and braying. "We've got an event tomorrow," he says. "We're constructing a wall, the Copenhagen Wall, like the Berlin Wall that divided the free from the slave."The idea is a ten-foot cardboard wall with a picture of a modern city on one side and a primitive one on the other. To illustrate the injustice of rich nations telling poor ones to control their carbon emissions, the college kids are going to spray-paint CO2 = Life across it, Hahahahaha.Morano spots Lord Christopher Monckton, another famous contrarian. He has googly eyes like Marty Feldman and a plummy English accent straight out of Monty Python. He claims to have been a science advisor to Margaret Thatcher, although environmentalists hotly dispute this."I heard you got heckled yesterday," Morano says."Yes, Hitler Youth," Monckton answers. He was giving a speech at an event sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, an event just like this one, when a dozen young Americans rose up and began chanting, "Clean energy makes jobs." He called them Hitler Youth and they got terribly upset. "They said, 'We have the right to free speech,' and I said, 'Yes, but not in our meeting.' ""Hahahahaha."And here's Tom Harris, a thin bearded man who runs the International Climate Science Coalition. He's circulating a petition that demands "OBSERVABLE EVIDENCE" of climate change, a sentiment that has exploded since Climate-gate, he says. "Suddenly I'm getting twenty responses a day, scientists saying, 'Sign me up, sign me up.' They're worried their whole profession will be disgraced."There's more of them — Phelim McAleer, an Irish filmmaker who is planning to protest by dressing up as a polar bear who is not endangered; Cal Beisner, who runs the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation; Craig Rucker of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. They stand around making contrarian small talk, which includes a lot of speculation about the identity of the e-mail hacker — the Saudi intelligence service is a popular suspect — and an endless stream of "I told you so" moments. "Did you hear James Hansen on Letterman?" Morano asks. "He basically said 'bad judgment' — they used 'bad judgment.' ""Hide it better next time," Harris says."And they're also not doing an investigation.""There's a lot of hardcore evidence of corruption."Milloy talks about the theme of his latest book, Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do To Stop Them. They want to tell us what to eat, where to live, how many kids to have, how soft our toilet paper will be. Obama wants to put smart meters on every house so he can control our electricity. "You can't say you're a socialist but you can say you're an environmentalist and have the same goals — it's too bad Joe Stalin missed this one."Morano seems uncomfortable with this line of argument. "I would still argue environmentalism is not his big issue."

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