Cornwall Alliance

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https://www.desmog.com/2015/11/19/evangelical-christian-zeal-behind-marc-morano-s-climate-denial-documentary-climate-hustle/

The Evangelical Christian Climate Deniers Behind Marc Morano’s Climate Hustle Documentary

By 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 andthen 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 theNewsBusters 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.

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https://www.desmog.com/cornwall-alliance-stewardship-creation/

cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation

Background

The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, formerly the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance (ISA) is an evangelical Christian group founded in 2006 by Calvin Beisner that claims environmentalism is “one of the greatest threats to society and the church today.” [16], [17],

The Cornwall Alliance’s founder, Calvin Beisner, has been described as “the most influential evangelical anti-environmentalist in the United States.” Calvin Beisner and the Cornwall Alliance believe that “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. Earth’s climate system is no exception.” [30]

The Cornwall Alliance’s founding documents include the “Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming” which states “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human contribution to greenhouse gases is causing dangerous global warming.” [2]

TheInterfaith Stewardship Alliance (:{ISA:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:) was formed in November 2005 when they first adopted the Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship as their founding document. The ISA changed its name to the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation in May, 2007, to “better reflect [their] founding document,” the Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship. [12]

The Cornwall Declarationmakes three key points:[1]

1. Humans are “producers andstewards” [NOTE CO-OPT HIJACK] of the environment, and should not be viewed as “consumers and polluters” because “the application of human and material capital are integral to environmental improvement.”

It is “humanstewardshipthat unlocks the potential in creation for all the earth’s inhabitants as good.”

3. Some environmental concerns are “without foundation or greatly exaggerated.” Examples of unfounded concerns “include fears of destructive manmade global warming, overpopulation, and rampant species loss.” ALARMISM

The Cornwall Alliance is a project of the :{US:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: James Partnership. The James Partnership, like the Cornwall Alliance, chooses not to disclose its funding sources. However, Conservative Transparency records that more thanhalf of the James Partnership’s $340,000 of income in 2012 camefrom the “dark money”funding group known as**Donors Trus**t (:{DT:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:).:{[18:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::{]:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:, [19], [20]

As :{Thinkprogress:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: reported in 2010, Chris Rogers, who also ran the James Partnership, heads a media and PR firm titled CDR Communications. CDR also collaborates with David Rothbard, the founder and president of the Committee for Constructive Tomorrow (:{CFACT:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:). Rogers has also worked in the past for the Bush administration and for the secretive conservative group, Council for National Policy. [4]

According to public 990 forms, CDR Communications has been registered to the same address as both the James Partnership and Cornwall Alliance, as well as the “Resisting the Green Dragon”website. [4]

Stance on Climate Change

Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming

Here are some of the key points in the Cornwall Alliance’s “Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming”: [2]

“There is no convincing scientific evidence that human contribution to greenhouse gases is causing dangerous global warming.”

“We deny that alternative, renewable fuels can, with present or near-term technology, replace fossil and nuclear fuels, either wholly or in significant part, to provide the abundant, affordable energy necessary to sustain prosperous economies or overcome poverty.”

3. “We deny that carbon dioxide—essential to all plant growth—is a pollutant.Reducing greenhouse gases cannot achieve significant reductions in future global temperatures, and the costs of the policies would far exceed the benefits.”

“We deny that such policies, which amount to a regressive tax, comply with the Biblical requirement of protecting the poorfrom harm and oppression.”

Based on these points, the Alliance “call[s] on Christian leaders to understand the truth about climate change and embrace Biblical thinking, sound science, and careful economic analysis in creationstewardship.”

Additionally, the alliance calls on politicians “to adopt policies that protect human liberty, make energy more affordable, and free the poor to rise out of poverty, while abandoning fruitless, indeed harmful policies to control global temperature.”

Energy Poverty

The Cornwall Alliance often argues that conventional energy sources are needed to fight against poverty in the developing world. For example, this is the perspective of the Cornwall Alliance’s Research Associate for Developing Countries, who describescoal as a “clean: energy source:

“In light of the astronomical changes to energy policies that are being proposed, and with regard to the Christian voice that needs to be heard within policymaking bodies, the most loving deed we Christians can do is to advocate for the environmentally safe policies that will address the livelihood of the poor and the marginalized of the world, including those in the developed West.

As a Christian student of environmental science, I believe clean conventional energy sources (such as coal and nuclear energy) are the lifeline of our civilization. Do coal-based energy sources pose an imminent threat to the globe by increasing temperature levels? Real-world observations, instead of computer climate models, suggest that the answer is no.” (Emphasis added). [25]

Regarding the Paris climate summit in 2015, Calvin Beisner made the following comments:

“The ‘Commitments’ made in the Paris agreement are voluntary and unenforceable,” Beisner said, “which means most nations will not comply. EU nations said They would make binding Commitments only if all major emitters did-and They Did not. So the EU‘s ‘Commitments’ lose all substance.”

“‘That’s perfectly understandable. Risks from poverty are far greater than from climate change, so whatever slows economic growth means greater harm than global warming.” [31:{]:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:

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Funding

The James Partnership

The Cornwall Alliance is a project of the :{US:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: James Partnership. Conservative Transparency records that more than half of the James Partnership’s $340,000 of income in 2012 camefrom the “dark money” funding group known as Donors Trust (:{DT:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:). [34]

The following is based on data the Conservative Transparency Project complied for the James Partnership. Note that not all individual funding values have been confirmed by DeSmogblog. View the attached spreadsheet for additional information on:{James Partnership/Cornwall Alliance funding by year (.xlsx):(style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600"):}:. :{[18:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::{]:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:, [19], [20]

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Key People

Cornwall Alliance Key Staff (2016) [24]

Dr. E. Calvin Beisner — Cornwall Alliance Founder and National Spokesman

Megan Toombs — Cornwall Alliance Advisory Board

Senior Fellows (2016) [24]

Name Title

Craig Vincent Mitchell Ph.D., Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX

Daniel R. Heimbach Ph.D., Senior Professor of Christian Ethics, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; Research Institute Fellow, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention

David Legates Ph.D., Professor of Climatology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

G. Cornelis van Kooten Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Research Chair in Environmental Studies and Climate, University of Victoria, BC, Canada

James A. Wanliss Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC

Kenneth Chilton Ph.D., Senior Environmental Fellow, Institute for the Study of Economics & the Environment, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO

Peter Jones Ph.D., Executive Director, truthXchange, and Emeritus Professor of New Testament, Westminster Theological Seminary, Escondido, CA

Roy W. Spencer Ph.D., Principal Research Scientist, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, and Lead Scientist, NASA Aqua AMSR-3 Satellite Remote Sensing Program

Timothy Terrell Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC

Vishal Mangalwadi Ph.D., Theologian and Author, Founder, RevelationMovement.com, Pasadena, CA

Wayne Grudem Ph.D., Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies, Phoenix Seminary, Phoenix, AZ

Fellows

Name 2015[10] 2016[24] Title

Barrett Duke Y Y Ph.D., Vice President, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention, Washington, DC

Ben Phillips Y Y Ph.D., Associate Dean, Havard School of Theological Studies, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX

Neil L. Frank N Y Ph.D. (Meteorology), the longest-serving Director of the National Hurricane Center (1974–1987) and retired Chief Meteorologist of KHOU–TV, Houston (1987–2008), Fulshear, TX

Shawn Ritenour Y Y Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Grove City College, Grove City, PA

Stephen Livesay Y Y Ph.D., President, Bryan College, Dayton, TN

Tracy C. Miller Y Y Associate Professor of Economics, Grove City College, Pennsylvania

Adjunct Scholars (2016) [24]

Name Title

Chris Skates M.S., Plant Chemistry Supervisor, Electric Energy Inc., Joppa, IL

Gordon Evans M.S., Environmental Manager, Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX

Jamieson C. Keister Ph.D., (Ret.) Pharmaceutical Research Specialist, 3M Company, Lakeville, MN

Kevin Alan Lewis Ph.D., Professor of Theology and Law, Biola University, La Mirada, CA

Mark Brandly Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI

Michael Salazar Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, Union University, Jackson, TN

Steven Hayward Ph.D., Thomas Smith Distinguished Visiting Professor, Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio; Secretary of Energy & Interior under President Ronald Reagan; author of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators

Board of Advisors

Name 2011[8] 2016[24] Title

Alan W. Gomes Y Y Ph.D., Professor of Systematic Theology,Talbot School of Theology, La Mirada, CA

Alan Wisdom Y N independent writer and consultant, former Vice President, Institute on Religion & Democracy

Barrett Duke Y Y Ph.D., Vice President, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention, Washington, DC

Charles H. Dunahoo Y Y Coordinator of Christian Education & Publication, Presbyterian Church in America

Colonel V. Doner Y N Chairman, Children’s Hunger Relief Fund

D. James Kennedy (deceased) Y Y Founding & Senior Pastor, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church; Founder & President, Evangelism Explosion, Coral Ridge Ministries, & Knox Theological Seminary, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Daniel R. Heimbach N Y Ph.D., Senior Professor of Christian Ethics, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; Research Institute Fellow, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention

David A. Williams Y N President, L.D. Advantage, Inc; Former Representative on NAE Social Action Commission

David Barton Y N Founder and President, Wallbuilders

David W. Hall Y N Senior Minister, Midway Presbyterian Church (PCA), Powder Springs, Georgia

Dennis G. Bennett Y N Bible Institute of South Africa

Douglas E. Daugherty Y N Project Manager, The Maclellan Foundation, Chattanooga, TN

E. Calvin Beisner Y N Cornwall Alliance Founder and National Spokesman

Frank J. Smith Y N Editor, Presbyterian International News Services

Garry J. Moes Y N Director, Murphys Christian Camp; former political reporter/editor, The Associated Press

George Grant Y Y Ph.D., Teaching Pastor, Christ Community Church (PCA), Principal, Kings Meadow Study Center, Nashville, TN

George Khushf Y Y Humanities Director, Center for Bioethics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Gregory Lee Robertson Y N Interim Pastor, Loving Savior of the Hills Lutheran Church (LCMS), Chino Hills, California

Gretchen Passantino Y N M.Div. (Apologetics), Director & Co-founder, Answers In Action

Harry V. Wiant, Jr. Y Y Ph.D., Ibberson Chair in Forest Resources, Penn State University

Henry Krabbendam Y Y Ph.D., President, Africa Christian Training Institute, (Ret.) Professor of Biblical Studies, Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, GA

Herbert Schlossberg Y Y Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Ethics & Public Policy Center

Howard Ball Y Y National Director, ChurchLIFE, Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ)

Irfon Hughes Y N Pastor, Hillcrest Presbyterian Church (PCA), Volant, Pennsylvania

J. Ligon Duncan III Y Y Senior Pastor, First Presbyterian Church (PCA), Jackson, MS, and President, Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

James A. Wanliss N Y Ph.D., Associate Professor ofPhysics, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC

Jay Grimstead Y N Director, Coalition on Revival

Jay W. Richards Y N Author, contributing editor to The American

Jeff Myers Y N Associate Professor, Bryan College, Tennessee

Jerry Newcombe Y N Senior Producer, Coral Ridge Ministries-TV, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Jerry O’Neill Y Y Ph.D., President, Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Jim Tonkowich Y N Scholar,Institute on Religion and Democracy

Joel Belz Y Y (Ret.), Founder and Publisher, World MagazIne

Joey Pipa Y Y Ph.D., President, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

John Khushal Y Y Associate Director, CRU, North India

John Michael Beers Y N Ph.D., S.S.L., Dean of the Pre-Theologate, Ave Maria University, Florida

Kenneth Chilton Y Y Ph.D., Senior Environmental Fellow,Institute for the Study of Economics & the Environment, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO

Kenneth G. Talbot Y N President, Whitefield Theological Seminary, Florida

Kevin Alan Lewis Y Y Ph.D., Professor of Theology and Law, Biola University, La Mirada, CA

Louis P. Sheldon Y Y Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition

Madre Antonia Becerra Y N Caritas Charities, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Marvin Olasky N Y Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, World Magazine

Michael Cromartie Y Y Vice President, Ethics & Public Policy Center, Director, Evangelicals in Civic Life

Michael E. Bauman Y N Ph.D., Professor of Theology & Culture, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI

Paul D. Kooistra Y Y Ministry to the World, Presbyterian Church in America

Peter J. Hill Y Y Ph.D., (Ret.), George F. Bennett Chair of Economics, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL

Peter Jones N Y Ph.D., Executive Director, truthXchange, and Emeritus Professor of New Testament, Westminster Theological Seminary, Escondido, CA

Ralph Weitz Y Y Stewardship Pastor, Immanuel Bible Church, Springfield, VA

Richard Dougherty Y N Associate Professor, Politics Department, University of Dallas, Texas

Robert Royal Y N President, Faith and Reason Institute

Robert Sirico Y N President, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty

Ron D. Petitte Y N D.P.A., Director, Honors and Political Science Programs, Bryan College, Tennessee

Roy W. Spencer Y Y Ph.D., Principal Research Scientist, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, and Lead Scientist, NASA Aqua AMSR-3 Satellite Remote Sensing Program

Stephen Livesay Y Y Ph.D., President, Bryan College, Dayton, TN

Steven Hayward Y Y Ph.D., Thomas Smith Distinguished Visiting Professor, Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio; Secretary of Energy & Interior under President Ronald Reagan; author of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators

Ted Baehr Y Y President, Christian Film and Television Commission

Timothy Terrell Y Y Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC

Tracy C. Miller Y Y Associate Professor of Economics, Grove City College, Pennsylvania

Wayne Grudem Y Y Ph.D., Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies, Phoenix Seminary, Phoenix, AZ

William L. Anderson Y N AssociateProfessor of Economics, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD

Gary Kass Y N President, Reclaiming America for Christ

Daniel Lapin Y N President, Toward Tradition

Gary Perras Y N Temple Israel, Daytona Beach, Florida

Phillip DeVous Y N Chaplain, Thomas More College, Kentucky

Richard John Neuhaus (deceased) Y N President, Institute on Religion and Public Life

Contributing Writers

Name 2015[10] 2016[24] Title

Alan Wisdom Y Y independent writer and consultant, former Vice President, Institute on Religion & Democracy

Anthony J. Sadar Y Y M.S., Adjunct Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Statistics, Air Pollution, Meteorology, & Engineering, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA

Anthony Lupo Y Y Ph.D., Department Chair and Professor of Atmospheric Science,University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

ArthurEberle Y Y M.S., President, Compliance Assurance, Harvest, AL

Ashley Thorne Y Y Director of Communications, National Association of Scholars, Princeton, NJ

Barrett Duke Y Y Ph.D., Vice President,Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention, Washington, DC

Ben Phillips Y Y Ph.D., Associate Dean, Havard School of Theological Studies, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX

Bill Flax Y Y Columnist, Forbes,Cincinnati, OH

C. Ben Mitchell Y Y Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy, Union University, Jackson, TN

Charles Clough Y Y Ph.D., Atmospheric Physicist (Ret.), Adjunct Professor, Chafer Theological Seminary, Bel Air, MD

Charles Van Eaton Y Y Ph.D., Professor of Economics (Ret.), Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MICATN

Chris Skates Y Y M.S., Plant Chemistry Supervisor, Electric Energy Inc., Joppa, IL

Craig Vincent Mitchell Y Y Ph.D., Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX

David Legates Y Y Ph.D., Professor of Climatology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

David Shormann Y Y Ph.D., Marine Chemist and Limnologist, President, DIVE (Digital Interactive Video Education), Houston, TX

Douglas E. Daugherty Y Y Project Manager,The Maclellan Foundation, Chattanooga, TN

Edward Krug Y Y Ph.D., (Ret.) Soil and Water Scientist, Illinois State Water Survey and National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, Urbana, IL

G. Cornelis van Kooten Y Y Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Research Chari in Environmental Studies and Climate, University of Victoria, BC, Canada

Gordon Evans Y Y M.S., Environmental Manager, Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX

James A. Wanliss Y Y Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC

Jamieson C. Keister Y Y Ph.D., (Ret.) Pharmaceutical Research Specialist, 3M Company, Lakeville, MN

John Sparks Y Y Ph.D., Dean of Humanities, Grove City College, Grove City, IL

John Swayze Y Y Ph.D. (Ret.), Organic, Medicinal, and Agricultural Chemist, Carmel, IN

Kenneth Chilton Y Y Ph.D., Senior Environmental Fellow, Institute for the Study of Economics & the Environment, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO

Mark Coppenger Y Y Ph.D., Professor of Christian Apologetics, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY

Mark Musser Y Y M.D., Pastor, Grace Redeemer Bible Church, Olympia, WA

Michael E. Bauman Y Y Ph.D., Professor of Theology & Culture, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI

Michael Salazar Y Y Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, Union University, Jackson, TN

Neil L. Frank N Y Ph.D. (Meteorology), the longest-serving Director of the National Hurricane Center (1974–1987) and retired Chief Meteorologist of KHOU–TV, Houston (1987–2008), Fulshear, TX

Peter Jones Y Y Ph.D., Executive Director, truthXchange, and Emeritus Professor of New Testament, Westminster Theological Seminary, Escondido, CA

Richard S. Courtney Y Y Expert Reviewer, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Methodist Preacher, Cornwall, UK

Ronald Marks Y Y Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, North Greenville University, Greenville, SC

Shawn Ritenour Y Y Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Grove City College, Grove City, PA

Stephen Vantassel Y Y Ph.D., Wildlife Control Consultant, Project Coordinator, Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Terry Lovell Y Y Ph.D., Professor of Business, Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ

Timothy Terrell Y Y Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC

Todd Pedlar Y Y Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics,Luther College, Decorah, IA

Tracy C. Miller Y Y Associate Professor of Economics, Grove City College, Pennsylvania

William A. Mundhausen N Y B.A., Chairman, Orion Center, Linn Creek, Missouri

William D. Balgord Y Y President, Environmental & Resources Technology, Inc., Middleton, WI

William L. Anderson Y Y Associate Professor of Economics, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD

Actions

May 17, 2017

The Cornwall Alliance is set to release a new documentary titled “**Convicted:**How Climate Alarmism Harms the World’s Poor” (working title) as the sequel to “Where the Grass is Greener: Biblical Stewardship vs. Climate Alarmism.” [48]

According to event description, the film would “delves into the deadly impacts of climate alarmism on people in developing countries, and what Biblical Stewardship requires of us: ‘To seek justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God.’” [48]

The event would be co-hosted with the Heritage Foundation, featuring E. Calvin Beisner and Becky Norton Dunlop.[48]

The Convicted trailer is available on Vimeo, from CDR Communications. Those featured in film include Tom Harris, Tim Ball, S. Fred Singer,Leighton Steward, Patrick J. Michaels, David Legates, among others. [48]

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May 17, 2017

Convicted: How Climate Alarmism Harms the World’s Poor

Co-Hosted by The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation

Learn why top experts risk their jobs, funding, and public reputations to oppose the politicization of science.

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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

The Heritage Foundation

Allison Auditorium

214 Massachusetts Ave NE

Washington, DC

20002

RSVP FOR THIS EVENT

Co-Hosted by

E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D.

Founder and National Spokesman, The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation

Becky Norton Dunlop

Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow

Description

The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation presents its latest documentary, Convicted: How Climate Alarmism Harms the World’s Poor (working title). As the sequel to Where the Grass is Greener: Biblical Stewardship vs. Climate Alarmism, Convicted delves into the deadly impacts of climate alarmism on people in developing countries, and what Biblical Stewardship requires of us: “To seek justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God.”

Learn why top experts risk their jobs, funding, and public reputations to oppose the politicization of science and the use of scientific theories to push social, economic, and political agendas. The science is not settled, watch Convicted: How Climate Alarmism Harms the World’s Poor to know more.

View the trailer at https://vimeo.com/216242322

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May 1–12, 2017

The Cornwall Alliance’s Calvin Beisner was hosted by the group Reformed Perspective (RP) for a Spring Speaking Tour in Canada titled “The Grass is Greener: Biblical Stewardship in an Age of Climate Alarmism.” The event description on the RP website reads as follows:[46]

“If CO2 reductions, intended to fight future global warming, end up increasing heating costs now, should Christians be for or against them? And if these same CO2 reductions increase food costs, how will that impact the world’s poorest? Why don’t we hear environmentalists talking about the negative impact of their climate change plans? Is that because there aren’t any? And how does biblical stewardship differ from environmentalism in the way each views Man? Does having a Reformed perspective on the environment really matter? You bet it does!” [46]

Reformed Perspective describes itself as a “A Canadian-based monthly Christian magazine and website that looks at society and culture from a Calvinist viewpoint.”A recent issue of the :{RP:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: magazine includes articles voicing concern over the inclusion of same-sex couples in the children’s magazine Hlighlights,and another article on what to do when a family member says they are gay. “The powerful, aggressive, LGBTQ lobby has been very successful in its efforts to normalize the homosexual lifestyle in our society,” the article reads, which also mentions a DVD resource on the topic. [47]

May 8, 2017

The Cornwall Alliance, represented by E. Calvin Beisner, is listed on an open letter to President Donald J. Trump urging him “to withdraw fully from the Paris Climate Treaty and to stop all taxpayer funding of UN global warming programs.”[43]

DeSmog reported that the 40 groups represented in the letter, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), The Heartland Institute, and the Heritage Foundation, have received a combined total of millions of dollars from the Koch Brothers, ExxonMobil, and other industry groups. [44]

Analysis also showed that the groups accepted about $80 million through Donors Capital Fund and Donors Trust, two groups that have been confirmed is a key financial source for key U.S-based climate change denial groups. [45]

January 5, 2017

The Cornwall Alliance wrote anopen lettersupporting Scott Pruittfor EPA Administrator under the Trump administration. [40]

“Mr. Pruitt has also demonstrated understanding of and open-mindedness toward scientific insights crucial to the formulation and implementation of environmental regulation. He is prepared to hear all sides in debates over the risks and benefits of various activities that come under the purview of the EPA,” reads the letter.

On January 12, 2017,Senate Democrats raised conflict of interest concerns regarding Scott Prutt’s fossil fuel ties. Pruitt had spent years working to combat the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. [41]

In an open letter to the Office of Government Ethics, members of the Senate’s environmental panel commented:

“During his tenure as Attorney General of Oklahoma, Mr. Pruitt has blurred the distinction between official and political actions, often at the behest of corporations he will regulate if confirmed to lead EPA,” the letter said. “Public reporting based on documents produced by Freedom of Information Act requests illustrate how Mr. Pruitt and members of his staff have worked closely with fossil fuel lobbyists to craft his office’s official positions.”

Pruitt was further grilled on his fossil fuel ties at his confirmation hearing on January 18. [42]

Some notable signatories of the Cornwall Alliance letter, as of January 5, 2017, included:

June 10, 2016

The Cornwall Alliance released an open letter written by Calvin Beisner to U.S. attorneys general about climate change. [37]

The letter responds to recent investigations by U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and members of Attorneys General United for Clean Power into what ExxonMobil knew about climate change and when, started by a coalition of attorneys general in the US.[38], [39]

Beisner writes that the attorneys generals’ actions are “a dead giveaway that you’re ignorant about climate science and related climate and energy policy.”

“[U]nlike in the case of tobacco’s health risks, there are innumerable and enormous holes in the case (not for human contribution to global warming but) for manmade global warming dangerous enough to justify spending trillions of dollars reinventing the world’s energy system to mitigate it, particularly when competing use of those trillions might bring far greater benefit,” Beisner addresses the attorneys general. And you, intelligent and learned all, are ignorant of those enormous holes.” [37]

Signatories of the Cornwall Alliance’s open letter include: [37]

E. Calvin Beisner
Charles Clough
Colonel John A. Eidsmoe
Christopher Essex
Neil L. Frank
Victor Goldschmidt
Rev. Peter Jones
Madhav Khandekar
Jamieson C. Keister
Kevin Lewis
Anthony R. Lupo
Vishal Mangalwadi
Tracy Miller
Ben Phillips
Shawn Ritenour
Chris Skates
Roy W. Spencer
Timothy Terrell
James Wanliss
Anthony Watts

February 25, 2016

Responding to a petition at the University of Chicago for the Board to divest from fossil fuel companies, Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance said that the University would “violate their obligations” if they acted on the open letter:

“For the trustees to make decisions based on politically correct ideology rather than on the actual financial wisdom of the investment is actually for them to violate their obligations for looking after the financial well-being of the institution,” he asserts.

“We can get far more energy from the use of far less land by fossil fuels than by wind and solar and other renewables,” he adds. “Furthermore, not only do fossil fuels help to protect the natural environment that way, they also lift people out of poverty.” [27]

Theoriginal Faculty Open Letteris reproduced below: [26]

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO,

We, the undersigned faculty at the University of Chicago, urge the University to divest from the fossil fuel industry. We believe that profiting from these industries conflicts with the paramount social value of avoiding significant and permanent degradation of our planet that, if left unchecked, will adversely affect all of us, personally and as an institution. Because of the universal and existential nature of the threat climate change poses, we are not only compliant with but compelled by the Kalven Report to take action.

November, 2015

The Cornwall Alliance sent an email to over 2,900 faculty members of colleges and universities across the country asking them to endorse their “Open Letter on Climate Change to the People, their Local Representatives, the State Legislatures and Governors, the Congress, and the President of the United States of America.” [33]

September 11-14, 2015

The Cornwall Alliance published a series of videos online as part of a series titled “Greener On the Other Side: Climate Alarmism—Facts, Not Fear” featuring prominent climate change skeptics, and reiterating many previously debunked points regarding climate change.

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Featured Speakers:

H. Leighton Steward — “Earth is getting greener, and greener, and still greener as Earth’s CO2 level builds up:
Walter Cunningham — “On the Apollo Space Craft […] the alarm would go off if [CO2 levels] got to three thousand parts per million.”
Thomas Wysmuller — “Temperature has swung up…temperature has swung down.”
Roy W. Spencer — “If anything, there’s going to be net benefits, especially considering the fact life on earth requires CO2 and we’re already seeing evidence that more CO2 is causing global greening.”

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Featured Speakers:

Thomas P. Sheahen— “God was the inventor of science. God invented mathematics. He invented logic.”
David Legates — “To be a true Christian means you have to believe and understand what we are being taught through the Bible and through God’s work.”
Jay Richards — “Fundamentally there is no conflict between Christian theology and science.”

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Featured Speakers:

Anthony Watts — “The Earth has experienced large swings in climate in the past.”
David Legates— “CO2 has been much higher than it is today. […] CO2 and things that have changed in the past haven’t resulted in completely destroying the planet.”
Walter Cunningham— “The climate has been much, much more variable than anyone alive today has ever felt. […] All life on the planet developed by adapting to the climate. […] It’s not an issue of whether the climate has been changing or not. It’s been changing for 3.8 billion years. The question is what impact do humans have on that change—and it is trivial.”
Robert M. Carter — “We’ve now spent 25 years, several hundred billion dollars, trying to measure the impact of human carbon dioxide emissions on planetary temperature. We cannot detect it.”

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Featured Speakers:

H. Leighton Steward— “We all learned in the third grade that CO2 is what plants eat. […] That the EPA administrator called CO2 a pollutant is scientifically embarrassing.”
Harold H. Doiron — ”CO2 is a very special chemical that is here to sustain all life.”
Robert M. Carter — “Carbon dioxide is a trace gas in the atmosphere, and it is the elixir of life.”
S. Fred Singer — “The idea that there might be some climate effect from CO2 is very natural. The question is can you measure it. Is it large enough to be measureable? From what we know now, the answer is it’s hardly measureable.”
Anthony Watts— “If you look at the figures from satellites from the last decade, you’ll see that the Earth has actually been greening due to the increased CO2 in the atmosphere.”
Patrick J. Michaels — “Carbon dioxide warms the surface temperature up a little bit and it makes plants grow a lot better.

September 9, 2015

The Cornwall Alliance created a petition titled “For the Sake of the Poor, Don’t Fight Global Warming!” According to the petition, global warming is a “non-problem” and fighting it will harm the poor and elderly. Signatories can be viewed here. [14], [15]

The petition was later re-titled “Forget ‘Climate Change’, Energy Empowers the Poor!” however the text remains unchanged.

April, 2015

Calvin Beisner is one of a group of “experts” who appeared at a press conference at the Hotel Columbus in Rome, and later delivered deliver lectures at the Palazzo Cardinal Cesi on climate change. Beisner delivered a “Message to Pope Francis” regarding the encyclical on the environment. [32]

“Adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere isn’t going to cause dangerous global warming, but it sure will enhance all life on earth—including human life, especially among the poor,” Beisner claimed.

“CO2‘s impact on global temperature is real but so tiny as to be insignificant,” says Beisner. “Trying to reduce our emissions will neither protect the earth nor dignify humanity.”

[…] “Pope Francis, a long-time defender of the poor, needs to understand this before he issues a planned encyclical on the environment and climate change,” Beisner added. “We and the climate scientists and other scholars meeting in Rome will do our best to make it clear.” [32]

March 17, 2015

Calvin Beisner, founder and national spokesperson for the Cornwall Alliance, authored an article in the Opinion section of the Christian Post where he criticized a video series by the Christian Reformed Church titled “Climate Conversation: Kenya.” The video series documented first-hand the impacts of climate change on East Africa.[29]

John Elwood writes that “What we discovered was absolutely staggering. In farms, village churches and government offices, Kenyans from all walks of life told us a familiar story: Climate patterns were changing radically, destroying food supplies and family farms, spreading hunger, and driving migration into squalid urban slums.” :{[28:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::{]:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:

He also writes that “we weren’t surprised” to find Calivin Beisner’s rebuttal:

“‘The relevant facts in Kenya don’t support these claims,’ Beisner said. And to support his rebuttal, he presented data from a World Bank website indicating that for Kenya as a whole, neither average monthly temperature nor rainfall had changed materially over the last century. ‘Are poor Kenyans suffering from water shortages?’ asked Beisner. ‘Yes. Is that because of global warming—manmade or natural? No. Is fighting global warming the solution? No.’

We suspect that Beisner’s article might have sounded persuasive and pragmatic to many readers, but not to us. And that’s because he cited country-wide data to invalidate the experience of people living in microclimates which are experiencing massive changes – obvious to us when we went to look for ourselves.” [28]

June 17, 2015

Calvin E. Beisner released a statement regarding Pope Francis’s Encyclical on the Environment, posted in a press release at the Heartland Institute website:

“Sad to say, despite Pope Francis’s best intentions, the policies he recommends to mitigate global warming would make it far more difficult to overcome poverty. And, ironically, by prolonging and even spreading poverty, those policies would put more of the natural environment at risk.

“People worried about putting food on the table, clothes on the back, and a roof over the head can’t afford to care or do much about air, water, and solid waste pollution. Gathering enough twigs and branches to cook tonight’s measly meal and heat a miserable hut take precedence over any concerns about deforestation, soil erosion, and biodiversity loss.

“Wealth enables people to afford better environmental stewardship. Pope Francis should champion economic development as a solution both to poverty and to environmental degradation. Unfortunately, at least as regards climate change, the leaked draft of the new encyclical does the opposite.” [7]

April, 2015

The Cornwall Alliance published “An Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change,”claiming that the science is not settled on whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to global warming.

The open letter advocates having no restrictions on fossil fuel use:

“Truly, ‘The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork’ (Psalm 19:1). By using fossil fuels to generate energy to lift billions of God’s precious children out of poverty, we liberate from the tomb of the earth the carbon dioxide on which plants and therefore all the rest of life depend. This beautifully reveals the Creator’s wisdom and care for all of His creation—people, animals, plants, and the earth itself.” [:{11]:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:

September 17, 2014

The Cornwall Alliance published “Ten Reasons to Oppose Harmful Climate Change Policies,” inviting signatories to endorse the declaration and “call on political leaders to abandon fruitless and harmful policies to control global temperature.” The “10 reasons” are reproduced below: [13]

As the product of infinitely wise design, omnipotent creation, and faithful sustaining (Genesis 1:1–31; 8:21–22), Earth is robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting. Although Earth and its subsystems, including the climate system, are susceptible to some damage by ignorant or malicious human action, God’s wise design and faithful sustaining make these natural systems more likely—as confirmed by widespread scientific observation—to respond in ways that suppress and correct that damage than magnify it catastrophically.
Earth’s temperature naturally warms and cools cyclically throughout time, and warmer periods are typically more conducive to human thriving than colder periods.
While human addition of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), to the atmosphere may slightly raise atmospheric temperatures, observational studies indicate that the climate system responds more in ways that suppress than in ways that amplify CO2’s effect on temperature, implying a relatively small and benign rather than large and dangerous warming effect.
Empirical studies indicate that natural cycles outweigh human influences in producing the cycles of global warming and cooling, not only in the distant past but also recently.
Computer climate models, over 95% of which point toward greater warming than has been observed during the period of rapid CO2 increase, do not justify belief that human influences have come to outweigh natural influences, or fears that human-caused warming will be large and dangerous.
Rising atmospheric CO2 benefits all life on Earth by improving plant growth and crop yields, making food more abundant and affordable, helping the poor most of all.
Abundant, affordable, reliable energy, most of it now and in the foreseeable future provided by burning fossil fuels, which are the primary source of CO2 emissions, is indispensable to lifting and keeping people out of poverty.
Mandatory reductions in CO2 emissions, pursued to prevent dangerous global warming, would have little or no discernible impact on global temperatures, but would greatly increase the price of energy and therefore of everything else. Such policies would put more people at greater risk than the warming they are intended to prevent, because they would slow, stop, or even reverse the economic growth that enables people to adapt to all climates. They would also harm the poor more than the wealthy, and would harm them more than the small amount of warming they might prevent.
In developed countries, the poor spend a higher percentage of their income on energy than others, so rising energy prices, driven by mandated shifts from abundant, affordable, reliable fossil fuels to diffuse, expensive, intermittent “Green” energy, will in effect be regressive taxes—taxing the poor at higher rates than the rich.
In developing countries, billions of the poor desperately need to replace dirty, inefficient cooking and heating fuels, pollution from which causes hundreds of millions of illnesses and about 4 million premature deaths every year, mostly among women and young children. To demand that they forgo the use of inexpensive fossil fuels and depend on expensive wind, solar, and other “Green” fuels to meet that need is to condemn them to more generations of poverty and the high rates of disease and premature death that accompany it.

November 10, 2010

The Cornwall Alliance released a campaign titled “Resisting the Green Dragon.”[17]

The DVD series portrays the entire green movement as a “false religion,” and part of a conspiracy to create a “global government.”

According to the Alliance, “it not only refutes the scientific case for dangerous manmade warming and other ‘crises,’ but also exposes how environmental organizations use sophisticated media campaigns and even seek increased global governance to promote their agenda among policy makers, religious leaders, and youth.”

Calvin Beisner, Cornwall Alliance founder and national spokesperson, said that “One of the greatest threats to society and the church today is the multifaceted environmentalist movement.” [5]

James Wanliss, a senior fellow with the Cornwall Alliance, wrote the similarly-titled book The Green Dragon: Is Global Warming a Religion,also published by the Cornwall Alliance. Wanliss is also the author of a 2011 book adaptation of the :{DVD:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: series. [6]

March 8 – 10, 2009

The Cornwall Alliance was a co-sponsor of the Heartland Institute’s 2009 International Conference on Climate Change.

July 25, 2006

Hosted a panel discussion with The Heritage Foundation surrounding the ISA“s “Call to Truth, Prudence and the Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Response to Global Warming.”

According to the event description, “The ISA paper lays forth solid scientific, economic, ethical, and theological arguments against mandatory carbon-emissions reductions called for by the ECI to mitigate global warming.” [3]

Speakers included David R. Legates, E. Calvin Beisner, and Kenneth Chilton. The event was hosted by Becky Norton Dunlop.

Cornwall Alliance Contact & Address

As of May, 2016, the Cornwall Alliance’s contact and phone number were listed as follows: [35]

The Cornwall Alliance

9302-C Old Keene Mill Road

Burke, VA 22015

Ph: 703-569-4653

Email

Stewards@CornwallAlliance.org — Office

Megan@CornwallAlliance.org — Megan Toombs, Communications and Outreach Coordinator

James Partnership Contact

Notably, the above contact address and phone number is identical to that of the James Partnership, according to a charity registration search. “Other Names Used” by the James Partnerhsip are listed as follows: [36]

1Voice Films
Advent Filmmakers
Churches And Villages Together
Cornwall Alliance

Related Organizations

:{Interfaith Stewardship Alliance (:{ISA:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:) :(style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600"):}:— Previous name for the Cornwall Alliance.

The James Partnership

The Cornwall Alliance appears to be a creation of the James Partnership, a nonprofit group run by Chris Rogers and Peter Stein. According to the James Partnership’s website, their “principal projects” include The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, Churches and Villages Together, and 1Voice Films. [4], [18]

The James Partnership’s Chris Rogers runs a media and public relations firm called CDR Communications, and has worked with David Rothbard, theco- founder and Presidentof the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (:{CFACT:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:). [21], [22], [4]

As of 2010, *Thinkprogress* reported that the following entities have all been registered to the same physical address at 9302-C Old Keene Mill Road Burke, VA 22015, an office park in suburban Virginia: [4]

CDR Communications
The James Partnership
The Cornwall Alliance
The “Resisting the Green Dragon” website

According to public tax records, approximately one quarter of The James Partnership’s income was spent on hiring Calvin Beisner, the founder and spokesperson for the Cornwall Alliance, for “contract services” ($98,030 in 2013). [23]

Council for National Policy (CNP)

Joyce Neslon writes that the Cornwall Alliance is a “ key member of the Council for National Policy (:{CNP:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:) – a secretive organization that is considered one of the pillars of the New Right in the US.” [30]

“According to author/activist Chris Hedges, the CNP brought together dominionist Evangelicals and the ‘right-wing industrialists willing to fund them.’ The CNP meets in utmost secrecy three times per year and gives billions of dollars to right-wing Christian organizations. Its membership and donor lists are not disclosed, and its events are closed to the public and the press. The Council for National Policy is known, however, to have given an award to the billionaire Koch Brothers, who are heavily involved in the tar sands and in funding the Fraser Institute,” he writes. [30]

Publications

The Cornwall Alliance listed the following “Landmark Documents” on their website as of July, 2015:

Resources

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2010

https://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/an-evangelical-backlash-against-environmentalism/

over the last decade, many evangelical Christians have embraced the doctrine called creation care, 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 declared in a 2006 statement on climate change.

But while a growing number of local and national nonprofit groups have formed 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, “Resisting the Green Dragon,” 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 Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas and Mike Huckabee, the former presidential candidate and Arkansas governor, who have advocated for action 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 unsettledon 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 designand 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 declaration reads. “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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Burke, VA, January 5, 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.

Signed by over 100 evangelical, mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish scientists, economists, legal scholars, policy experts, and religious leaders, the Open Letter calls for President-Elect Trump to stand by this outstanding nominee.

As Oklahoma Attorney General, Mr. Pruitt has demonstrated his legal expertise in successful litigation to require corporations—including the energy corporations so prominent in his state’s economy—to abide by environmental laws and regulations. He has publicly expressed his conviction that the EPA’s role is not to create law through regulations that exceed the scope of enabling legislation but to implement the intent of that legislation and nothing more.

The signers of the Open Letter recognize that some radical environmentalists and religious activists oppose Mr. Pruitt because he does not embrace their exaggerated fears of human-induced global warming—fears that go well beyond the empirical evidence crucial to genuine science—or their antipathy to the development of the abundant, reliable, affordable energy indispensable to lifting and keeping whole societies out of poverty and the disease and premature death that invariably accompany it.

Signers therefore urge President-Elect Trump to stand firmly behind his nominee, as they commit themselves to supporting him in the confirmation process that lies ahead. Signers include:

Neil L. Frank, Ph.D. (Meteorology), former Director, National Hurricane Center (1974–1987), Chief Meteorologist, KHOU-TV Houston (1987–2008);
David Legates, Ph.D. (Climatology), Professor of Climatology and Geography, University of Delaware;
Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Emeritus, MIT;
Willie Soon, Ph.D. (Aerospace Engineering), independent scientist, Cambridge, MA;
Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. (Meteorology), Principal Research Scientist, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, and Lead Scientist, NASA Aqua AMSR-3 Satellite Remote Sensing Program;
James A. Wanliss, Ph.D. (Physics), Professor of Physics, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC;
Anthony Watts, American Meteorological Society-certified television and radio meteorologist (retired), owner of WattsUpwithThat.com, Chico, CA

“Senate Democrats, at the beck and call of environmental activists, are determined to prevent Mr. Pruitt’s confirmation, painting him as a ‘science denier’ or a ‘climate-change denier’, said Cornwall Alliance Founder and National Spokesman Dr. E. Calvin Beisner. “He is neither. He’s a solid, common-sense attorney general who will bring much-needed reform to the EPA.”

Media contact: Megan Toombs, Director of Communications, Megan@CornwallAlliance.org, 703-569-4653

January 5, 2017

David Legates was a signatory to a Cornwall Alliance open letter supporting Scott Pruitt for EPA Administrator under the Trump administration. [58]

“Mr. Pruitt has also demonstrated understanding of and open-mindedness toward scientific insights crucial to the formulation and implementation of environmental regulation. He is prepared to hear all sides in debates over the risks and benefits of various activities that come under the purview of the EPA,” reads the letter.

On January 12, 2017,Senate Democrats raised conflict of interest concerns regarding Scott Prutt's fossil fuel ties. Pruitt had spent years working to combat the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan. [59]

In an open letter to the Office of Government Ethics, members of the Senate's environmental panel commented:

“During his tenure as Attorney General of Oklahoma, Mr. Pruitt has blurred the distinction between official and political actions, often at the behest of corporations he will regulate if confirmed to lead EPA,” the letter said. “Public reporting based on documents produced by Freedom of Information Act requests illustrate how Mr. Pruitt and members of his staff have worked closely with fossil fuel lobbyists to craft his office's official positions.”

Pruitt was further grilled on his fossil fuel ties at his confirmation hearing on January 18. [60]

Some notable signatories of the Cornwall Alliance letter, as of January 5, 2017, included:

December 8, 2016

http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/11/19/evangelical-christian-zeal-behind-marc-morano-s-climate-denial-documentary-climate-hustle

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.

Cornwall has been posting preview clips under the banner “Greener on the other Side: Climate Alarmism – Fact, Not Fear” on its YouTube page.

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.

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).

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”.

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.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/28/1354520/-A-Koch-hack-tells-the-Pope-to-back-off-on-climate-change

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The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation is the global warming skeptic group formerly known as the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance; it was renamed in 2007.^[1]

As of December 2009 its Board of Advisors included Roy Spencer, Kenneth Chilton and group spokesman E. Calvin Beisner.^[2]

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According to its website, the ISA is “ a coalition of religious leaders, clergy, theologians, scientists, academics, and other policy experts committed to bringing aproper and balanced Biblical view of stewardshipto the critical issues of environment and development.”

In July 2006, the ISA published a report criticising another religious organization called the Evangelical Climate Initiative or ECI (whose website is at :{http://tinyurl.com/je9ca:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}:) for its support for action to reduce CO₂ emissions.

The ISA report was entitled A Call to Truth, Prudence and Protection of the Poor: an Evangelical Response to Global Warming (downloadable from :{http://tinyurl.com/2z9zfe:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}:). The authors of the ISA report were :{Roy Spencer:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}:, Calvin Beisner, :{**Paul Driessen**:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}:and Ross McKitrick,all of whom are well known global warming critics, all of whom have worked for fossil fuel industry–funded lobby groups (see ExxonSecrets::{http://tinyurl.com/28n384:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}:), and only one of whom is a scientist (Roy Spencer). The report has had extensive press and blog coverage (see :{http://tinyurl.com/24qw48:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}: and :{http://tinyurl.com/39kb7q):(style="background-color:#fff200"):}:.

A letter of endorsement (at :{http://tinyurl.com/2jc7oc:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}:, PDF) of the ISA report was signed by representatives of various organizations, including six that are funded byExxonMobil, such as the *:{Competitive Enterprise Institute:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}:* and the *:{Congress of Racial Equality:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}:* (see Ethics Daily: :{http://tinyurl.com/2goge4:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}:).

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Beisner: Environmentalists' Objective Is To Kill 95% Of Humanity

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

Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance spoke to Bryan Fischer yesterday on American Family:{ Radio:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}: 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 tastes” of God’s judgment**. 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**calling global warming a “patently absurd,” liberal plot**.

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.”

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Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 12/16/2011 6:00 pm

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 “about 95% of the human race.”

Beisner is especially concerned about growing calls for environmental protection made by evangelical Christians, and has went out of his way to attack groups like the Evangelical Environmental Networkfor calling on public officials to clamp down on mercury poisoning. Beisner’s outburst against his fellow evangelicals should come as no surprise, as he has even gone after a Koch-financed studywhich actually confirmedthe science behind climate change. He joined Focus on the Family’s political arm CitizenLink, whose head Tom Minnery appeared in Beisner’s *Green Dragon* video series, to disparage the EEN for thanking both Republican and Democratic politicians who supported efforts to reduce mercury emissions:

According to the EEN, one of every six American babies is born with harmful blood mercury levels, “which causes permanent brain damage in the unborn and infants.” Therefore, the 12 federal legislators EEN is thanking with radio, TV and billboard ads for supporting the EPA restrictions are “pro-life.”

In truth, only one in every 1,000 American babies is exposed to harmful doses of mercury, and the slight delays in cognitive development it may cause generally disappear by age 7, says Beisner. Moreover, all 12 of the federal legislators EEN is supporting are among the most pro-abortion Congress has to offer.

“Calling this ‘pro-life’ is quite a misnomer, but it will result in a lot of people being confused about who’s really pro-life and who’s not,” Beisner said. “Some of these people have 100 percent pro-abortion voting records in Congress, so people need to know they’re really getting the wool pulled over their eyes if they fall for this.”

But the Center for Disease control did in fact find that one in six newborns, or 630,000 of the 4 million babies born annually, are “at risk for developmental disorders because of mercury exposure in the mother's womb,” which PBS described as mercury levels “so high that they are potentially at risk for learning disabilities and motor skill impairment and short-term memory loss.”

This attack on evangelical environmentalists comes at a time when Focus on the Family head Jim Daly pledged to take the organization in a different direction than his predecessor James Dobson, and Christianity Today reported that CitizenLink recently launched “an effort to reach young adults on issues related to sex trafficking, poverty, and the environment.” It also puts the group at odds with the long list of evangelical leaders who signed the “Evangelical Call to Stop The Mercury Poisoning of the Unborn.”

But apparently for Focus on the Family, being “pro-life” does not entail protecting newborns from mercury poisoning.

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The Climate Strategies Watch describes itself as "a coalition of clergy, theologians, religious leaders, scientists, academics, and policy experts committed to bringing a balanced Biblical view of stewardship to the critical issues of environment and development. The Cornwall Alliance fully supports the principles espoused in the Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship, and is seeking to promote those principles in the discussion of various public policy issues including population and poverty, food, energy, water, endangered species, habitat, and other related topics."^[1]

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In 2009 the group was a co-sponsor of theHeartland Institute's 2009 conference for climate change skeptics.^[2]

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E. Calvin Beisner, National Spokesman

Website:http://www.cornwallalliance.org

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↑ Heartland Institute, "International Conference on Climate Change: Global Warming: Was It Ever Really a Crisis?", March 8-10, 2009, page 32.
↑ Heartland Institute, "Co-Sponsors", Heartland Institute website, March 5, 2009.

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Meanwhile, a conservative Christian group is now going after the Scholastic for another item in its collection: The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge. The Magic School Bus series is among its most popular, but the Cornwall Alliance argues that the book is promoting "global warming alarmism" in schools. The group also uses this as an opportunity to promote their own video series about how environmentalists are pushing "anti-Christian" views. Perhaps they'd prefer that Scholastic keep the lessons sponsored by Big Coal?

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David Barton, WallBuilders

Dr. Michael Farris, Home School Legal Defense Assn.

Bryan Fischer, American Family Association

Pastor Jack Hibbs, Calvary Chapel Chino Hills

Bishop Harry Jackson, Hope Christian Church

Dr. Richard Land, Southern Baptist ERLC

Tom Minnery, Focus on the Family

Dr. David Noebel, Summit Ministries

Janet Parshall, National Radio Host

Tony Perkins, Family Research Council

Dr. Frank Wright, National Religious Broadcasters

Wendy Wright, Concerned Women for America

Registrant Name: E. Calvin Beisner

Registrant Organization: E. Calvin Beisner

Registrant Street: 9302-C Old Keene Mill Road

Registrant City: Burke

Registrant State/Province: VA

Registrant Postal Code: 22015

Registrant Country: US

Registrant Phone: +1.7035694653

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**Glenn Beck Brings ExxonMobil-Linked Religious Front Group To Tell Christians Not To Believe In Climate Change**

BY LEE FANG OCTOBER 15, 2010

In June, ThinkProgress published an exclusive investigation into the Cornwall Alliance — a corporate front designed to deceive evangelicals into doubting the science underpinning climate change. Today, Fox News hate-talker Glenn Beck brought on a representative from the group to tout Cornwall’s new DVD, “Resisting the Green Dragon,” which claims the climate change movement is a “false religion,” and a nefarious conspiracy to empower eugenicists and create a “global government.” The DVD, which Cornwall is distributing to evangelical churches around the country, seems to be designed perfectly for Beck’s world view, and unsurprisingly, the Cornwall guest and Beck exchanged bizarre conspiracy theories. Watch it:

The Cornwall Alliance appears to be a creation of a group called the James Partnership, a nonprofit run byChris Rogers and Peter Stein, according to documents filed with the Virginia State Corporation Commission. Rogers, who heads a media and public relations firm calledCDR Communications, collaborates with longtime oil front group operative David Rothbard, the founder and President of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) andJacques Villarreal, a lower level staffer at CFACT, for his James Partnership group. In the past, Rogers’ firm has worked for the Bush administration and for the secretive conservative planning group, the Council for National Policy.

According to public records, the following entities are all registered to the same address, 9302-C Old Keene Mill Road Burke, VA 22015, an office park in suburban Virginia:

– Rogers’ consulting firm, CDR Communications

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In late 2005, evangelical leaders like Rick Warren joined a drive to back a major initiative to fight global warming, saying “millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors.” To counter this historic shift in the evangelical community, a group called the “Interfaith Stewardship Alliance” (ISA) was launched to oppose action on carbon emissions and to deny the existence of climate change. One of the men guiding this group wasPaul Driessen, a consultant for ExxonMobil, the mining industry, and for CFACT.

For “stream lining” reasons, ISA relaunched as the Cornwall Alliance in 2006. With the new name came a redesigned website, web videos, and an organized network of churches to distribute climate change denying propaganda to hundreds of pastors around the country. The branding for the Cornwall Alliance is derived from the “Cornwall Declaration,” a 1999 document pushing back against the creation-care movement in the evangelical community. The Declaration “stressed a free-market environmental stewardship and emphasized that individuals and private organizations should be trusted to care for their own property without government intervention.” CFACT President Rothbard has been hailed as the “driving force” behind the Cornwall Declaration public relations effort.

CFACT is a gimmicky right-wing organization that does everything it can to try to discredit the science underpinning climate change. For instance, staffers from the group traveled to the Copenhagen conference on climate change to stage silly press conferences with Rush Limbaugh’s former producer and stunts aimed at mocking Greenpeace.

But who is the “driving force” behind CFACT?According to disclosures, CFACT is funded by at least $542,000 from ExxonMobil, $60,500 from Chevron, and $1,280,000 from Scaife family foundations, which are rooted in wealth from Gulf Oil and steel interests.

CFACT and the Cornwall Alliance, according to disclosures filed with the Washington State Secretary of State’s office, share a common fundraising firm, ClearWord Communications Group. ClearWord has helped raise millions of dollars not only for CFACT and Cornwall, but also for infamous polluter front groups like FreedomWorks, the Institute for Energy Research, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Last year, Cornwall produced a video with former Sen. George Allen(R-VA) attacking clean energy legislation as part of a campaign by the ExxonMobil-funded “American Energy Freedom Center.”

In a call to the Cornwall Alliance’s media office, spokesman Quena Gonzalez said Cornwall has no relationship to CFACT and said CFACT President Rothbard has no official capacity with his group. Gonzalez said that in “several years of working” at Cornwall, he had never heard any questions about working with CFACT, and instructed ThinkProgress to contact Calvin Beisner, the national representative for Cornwall. Beisner is a board member of CFACT.

Rothbard had a central role in sparking the founding of Cornwall and is currently a partner with Chris Rogers, the man who runs Cornwall and CDR Communications. Nevertheless, under his capacity as CFACT President, Rothbard’s anti-Greenpeace publicity stunts arereported regularly on the Cornwall blog as breaking news,without any acknowledgement of Rothbard’s relationship with Cornwall.

Gonzalez also said he had never heard of CDR Communications. But according to his own LinkedIn profile, Gonzalez works for CDR Communications as the “Director for Religion and the Environment” at the firm. ThinkProgress contacted Chris Rogers on Monday, who contradicted Gonzalez and said his firm CDR Communications provides “support” for Cornwall but did not clarify.

It appears that Cornwall attempts to carefully hide its backers. Not only did Gonzalez refuse to provide much information, but Cornwall’s website is registered with a special service to hide the identity of the person or group who purchased the domain address.

http://www.cornwallalliance.org/author/craig-rucker/

CFACT – Special Report from Conference in Bali

CRAIG RUCKER / DECEMBER 27, 2007

When the U.N. convened its 13th annual Conference of the Parties (COP) on climate change in steamy Bali in December, it held high expectations that the international community would be united over what course of action should be taken to curb the buildup of greenhouse gases. The event was carefully orchestrated from beginning to end, […]

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Fruitful Dominion: Time for a New Environmental Ethic?

DAVID ROTHBARD AND CRAIG RUCKER / OCTOBER 31, 2005

Responsible stewardship can bring prosperity to all of the earth’s inhabitants Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis […]

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Watching from afar how the environmental debate plays out in the US can be perplexing for many onlookers. Arguably, nowhere is the so-called "culture war" between left and right so heavily fought.

What is often not fully absorbed by onlookers, though, is the underlying role that religious doctrine – or "pulpit power" - plays in the environmental debate in the US. On the one hand, you have the "Creation Care" movement which is prevalent in some quarters of the Christian Church. On the other, particularly among evangelicals, you often see a vitriolic reaction aimed towards environmentalism.

Just last month, a survey of 1,000 Protestant pastors found that 41% strongly disagreed with the statement: "I believe global warming is real and manmade." The survey also found that 52% of the pastors address the issue of the environment with their churches once a year or less, with evangelical pastors speaking less often on the environment than mainline pastors.

When, in 2007, I interviewed the Bishop of London in the midst of his "fast" from flying, I asked him about this issue. He was scornful of evangelicals who "justify and sanctify irresponsible, anti-social behaviour" though a very literal interpretation of the Old Testament's "mythological language".

Much of this debate seems to centre on the interpretation of one of the most contentious verses in the Bible – the so-called Dominion Mandate, or Genesis 1:28:

And God blessed them [Adam and Eve], and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the Earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the Earth.

An organisation in the US called the Cornwall Alliance has intentionally and prominently positioned itself at the very heart of this debate. It describes itself as "a coalition of clergy, theologians, religious leaders, scientists, academics, and policy experts committed to bringing a balanced Biblical view of stewardship to the critical issues of environment and development". Its board of advisors features many religious leaders and thinkers, but includes scientists such as the climate sceptic Dr Roy Spencer. Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, its spokesman, is a prominent media figure in the US, appearing on shows such as Fox News' Glenn Beck, where he dispenses his harsh criticism of environmentalism.

To better understand this mindset, I recently approached Beisner with an interview request. He agreed, but said that he wanted me to first read the Cornwall Alliance's latest book called Resisting the Green Dragon: Dominion not Death. Written by James Wanliss, who describes himself as a "Christian physicist", the book is built on the premise that "without doubt one of the greatest threats to society and the church today is the multifaceted environmentalist movement". It's hard to summarise any book in a few sentences, but here are a few snippets to give a flavour of the book's tone:

The Litany of the Green Dragon provides some certainty for people without God, who drift steadily from their rational moorings, and for whom there is an increasing sense of separation anxiety...

We humans are special creatures, in a class of our own, quite separate from, and superior to, trees and animals...

The Green Dragon must die…[There] is no excuse to become befuddled by the noxious Green odors and doctrines emanating from the foul beast...

This slimy jade road…is paved with all kinds of perverted and destructive behaviours, leads to death itself, and finally, to the pains of hell forever…No Hollywood celebrity bunnies draped over its foul form can deny its native evil...

It is no coincidence the rise of environmentalism as a significant political entity tracks the rising political clout of modern feminism...

Savage wolveshave come to be among the church…No one can serve two masters...

The first few chapters in the Book of Genesis are an infinite mine to plumb for riches. All the world has no wisdom that is greater...

So-called "natural" or wilderness areas are not hospitable to man, and God does not consider this a good or natural state...

The fruits of the Green Dragon are not good, but evil…Humans are urged to surrender as many liberites as judged fit to save the world, which is pretty much all liberty that makes life worth living...

Christians must resist Green overtures to recast true religion, nor allow themselves to be prey for teachers of pagan heresies...

So having read the book – and watched some of the lectures on the accompanying DVD set – I began by asking Beisner why the Cornwall Alliance chooses to attack environmentalism with the kind of harsh, strong language – "foul beasts", "native evil" etc - expressed in the book:

We look at the environmental movement as a whole and particularly at the kinds of positions espoused by the top leadership of the largest environmental NGOs around the world. What I would say is that those definitely tend to be un-Christian in their world view – either secular and atheistic on the one hand, or spiritual, but not Christianly spiritual, and pantheistic on the other hand. There is a clear rejection of Biblical teaching that humanity should have dominion. And sin tends to get defined by environmentalism as our use, or abuse, of the Earth far more than in terms of our violation of the revealed laws of God in, say, the Ten Commandments. The solution to human problems tends to be "don't touch this, don't handle that", which is precisely the kind of thing that the Apostle Paul warned, rather than pointing to the gospel of redemption through the atoning death of Christ of the Cross. Environmentalism, as a movement, is an alternative world view and a substitute for Christianity.

My principal concern about environmentalism is a religious, logical, ethical concern. My secondary concern is that its science and economics are often flawed in ways that would point us towards policies that are especially destructive and harmful to the world's poor and, secondarily, everyone else.

I then asked Beisner why, in his view, the Dominion Mandate appears to take precedence over all else:

There are two reasons. One positive and the other negative and apologetic. The positive reason is simply the placement of that sentence in the overall text of scripture. Genesis 1:28 comes at the climax of the first chapter where we read of God creating the Heaven and the Earth, light and darkness, sea creatures, land creatures, and, finally, humanity made in His own image. And then He gives humanity this mission, this stipulation, as to its purpose on Earth. Its placement there makes it, hermeneutically, a very important verse for our understanding of the role of Mankind from the beginning of scripture. And you see that point being picked up again and again at various points in scripture.

But I also mentioned a negative reason. Lynn White's 1967 article, The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis, is probably one of the half dozen most important articles for laying the foundations of the modern environmental movement. It has been cited thousands of times. The thesis of the article is, because of Genesis 1:28 claiming that God instructed Man to subdue and rule the Earth, Judeo-Christian religion, and, in fact, all Abrahamic religion, has promoted an exploitative, no-responsible attitude of humanity towards the Earth and its resources; that we can use it any way we please without regard to the harm to fellow Man and other living creatures. White argued in that article that we would deliver the Earth from ravaging exploitation only by means of a thorough repudiation of that heritage. That has made dominion a major issue in environmental theorising.

What I find ironic is that White didn't present any proof that any Christian or Jewish scholar ever interpreted it in that way. So part of the task of Biblical theologians applying scriptural teaching to environmental stewardship issues is to correct White's misrepresentation of the Christian Church and the verse, and to point out that coming as it does, where it does, in Genesis, we need to learn from God's own example what dominion and rule entails. Man's dominion over the Earth should reflect God's dominion over the Earth so as to glorify God and to give benefit to our fellow human beings and, indeed, all the rest of life on Earth. As God went through creation week, He created abundance, beauty and flourishing life. That's the kind of thing humanity ought to be doing.

Throughout the book, the concept of "growth" is always spoken of in positive terms. I asked Beisner whether everything can just "keep growing", say, human population, without any form of restriction?

That straight away is terribly anachronistic as population shrinkage is going to be the next big challenge and begin around 2050. In and of itself, the total size of population is irrelevant ethically. You are certainly going to face challenges from either a growing or shrinking population. Where environmentalists start off as fundamentally mistaken is their vision of human beings. They see human beings as, primarily, consumers and polluters. Whereas the Bible teaches that humans, who are made in God's image, are producers and stewards. Obviously, it's not automatic. There needs to be education and moral commitment, and those things are furthered in my understanding through people being reconciled to God through the atoning work of Christ on the Cross and their faith in Him. As the late Julian Simon used to put it: "Every mouth that is born into this world is accompanied by two hands and, far more importantly, a mind." Those two hands and a mind are capable of producing far more than that mouth can consume. That's why, over the past several hundred years, each generation has also been wealthier on a per capita basis. We produce more wealth than we can consume. And that's a good thing.

I put it to Beisner that the book uses disparaging, negative terms when speaking of socialism, Obama, Democrats etc. Only Adam has more citations in the book's index than Al Gore, who has more than Satan. I asked him whether he aligns himself more along Republican lines, either politically or ideologically:

I'm pretty disgusted with all political parties. They're all gutless, pandering to people's desires to have the state meet their needs rather than through their own efforts. That would apply equally to big businesses rent-seeking and lobbying, trying to get governments to give them a competitive advantage over competitors, as it would to those people who want government handouts of, say, housing or food support. From my Christian understanding – and I understand that I have brothers and sisters of Christ who don't share my views – God ordained the state, which by its nature is a monopoly of legalised force, to enforce justice. And justice means rendering impartially to everyone his due, according to the righteous standard of God's moral law. He did not ordain the state to dispense grace. That's the role of the Church. When the state starts trying to dispense grace it necessarily transgresses the bounds of justice and winds up doing more harm than good. This is the very beginnings of my theological foundation of my reasoning in support of a much more free-market approach to economics, as opposed to a governmentally managed, centrally planned, neurotically arranged market.

We concluded the interview by talking about the Cornwall Alliance's source of funding and support. It is often accused of being a front group for fossil-fuel interests. A report by The Wonk Room examined these claims more closely last year. It noted that the Cornwall Alliance has close personal connections to a right-leaning "public policy organisation" called Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), which has received funding from oil companies in the past. (Beisner is on CFACT's board of advisors.) CFACT is probably best known now for promoting and funding the climate sceptic Marc Morano and his noisy website ClimateDepot (of which I have written about before). In one of Beisner's lectures on theDVD set, Morano can be seen listening attentively in the audience. So I asked Beisner to put it on the record, once and for all, how the Cornwall Alliance is funded:

We're supported primarily by individual donations. Some of those come via a cheque made out directly to us. Here in the US, for a variety of different reasons, you can make a donation to one charitable foundation via another foundation and the receiving foundation does not know who you are. Sometimes it's just as simple as, 'Hey, Jesus, said don't let the left hand know what the right it doing.' Some people don't want credit, or anyone trumpeting their name. Or they might want to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. But we make sure that I, as the spokesman, don't know where these types of donations come from. For that reason, I don't have to feel beholden to any donors.

The largest cheque we've ever had from an identifiable person is, I think, $5,000. There have been no corporate donations and certainly no oil money. [Laughs.] I wish. But, frankly, if an oil corporation was to offer us money I would turn it down because it would automatically compromise our ability to have public integrity. We are championing causes simply because we believe they are true. We're actually in the process of working out a statement for our website that says all this. But, frankly, we're very small. I'm the only full time person. The latest accounts of the James Partnership, the Cornwall Alliance's parent organisation, can be viewed [here as a PDF.] Probably the most important support we get is from the generosity of our chairman Chris Rogers who provides so much staff and equipment for which he doesn't charge. He's a very dedicated Christian man who gives sacrificially of himself. David Rothbard [CFACT's president] and I became friends in the early 1990s with a mutual interest in these issues. And, essentially, we think very similarly and we help each other out with information and recommend each other to others. CFACT is not a financial donor, though.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/cornwall-alliance

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Santorum and the 'Green Dragon': Faith-Based Attacks on Environmentalism Nothing New from the Religious Right

Submitted by Miranda Blue on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 1:13pm

Republican presidential frontrunner Rick Santorum raised a lot of eyebrows this weekend when he attacked environmentalism as anti-Biblicaland 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 wide use among the Religious Right.

In 2010, People For the American Way looked at the concerted right-wing effort to frame environmentalism as anti-Biblical in a Right Wing Watch: In Focus report, The ‘Green Dragon’ Slayers: How the Religious Right and the Corporate Right are Joining Forces to Fight Environmental Protection. The report took its title from a right-wing “documentary” called “Resisting the Green Dragon,” which featured major Religious Right figures including the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer and faux historian David Barton. Kyle put together a highlight reel:

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The Religious Right’s relatively new antipathy to environmentalism is largely the result of the hard work of E. Calvin Beisner, a purveyor of dominion theology and the leader of The Cornwall Alliance, a group with financial ties to the oil industry. The Cornwall Alliance’s sole purpose is to convince the Religious Right to buy into the Corporate Right’s climate change denialism and help them demonize environmentalists. The RWW report details the growing partnership:

In the last decade, as evangelical Christian leaders increasingly became involved in conservation, “creation care” and taking action against global climate change, the alarms went up in corporate America that many traditional members of the conservative coalition were becoming advocates for environmental protection. To counter the rise of the faith-based environmentalist Evangelical Climate Initiative, the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance emerged. The ISA, propped up by business interests including Exxon Mobil, has peddled misleading and false claimsto make the case that climate change is a myth. In 2007, the ISA was renamed the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creationand became more belligerent and zealous in its anti-environmental activities.

The Cornwall Alliance is led by E. Calvin Beisner, who believes that since God granted humans “dominion” over the earth, humans have a right to exploit all natural resources. As Randall Balmer writes in Thy Kingdom Come, Beisner “asserts that God has placed all of nature at the disposal of humanity.” Balmer quotes Beisner’s own summary of his dominion theology: “All of our acquisitive activities should be undertaken with the purpose of extending godly rule, or dominion.” As Balmer notes, “the combination of dominion theology from the Religious Right and the wise use ideology of corporate and business interests has created a powerful coalition to oppose environmental protection.”

According to a report by *Think Progress*, the Cornwall Alliance is a front group for the shadowy James Partnership. Both the James Partnership and the Cornwall Alliance are closely linked to the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), an anti-environmental group that is “funded by at least $542,000 from ExxonMobil, $60,500 from Chevron, and $1,280,000 from Scaife family foundations, which are rooted in wealth from Gulf Oil and steel interests.” CFACT is also part of a climate change denialist network funded by the ExxonMobil-financed Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Beisner is a CFACT board memberand an “adjunct fellow” of the Acton Institute, which is primarily fundedby groups like ExxonMobil, the Scaife foundations and the Koch brothers. Beisner is also an adviser to the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, which is financed bythe oil-backed Earthart Foundation, the Koch brothers, and ExxonMobil.

In fact, Beisner is not a scientist and has no scientific credentials. Despite claiming to be an authority on energy and environmental issues, he received his Ph.D. in Scottish History.

Beisner has been extraordinarily successful in convincing the Religious Right that environmentalism presents a threat to Christianity. Earlier this month, he told Fischer that the EPA is violating the separation of church and state by helping to promote the upcoming film version of “The Lorax.” Why? Because he claims that environmentalism is itself a religion. This is rhetoric that Santorum, in saying that Obama’s theology is influenced by “radical environmentalists,” has swallowed whole.

Also active in the effort to recruit the Religious Right to the Corporate Right’s view of environmentalism has been David Barton,:{ self-proclaimed historian and all-purpose fake expert. In 2010, he }:{ along with Beisner explain that environmentalists want us to “live in fear”:}:

Barton -- who is no more a historian than Beisner is a scientist – is a widely influential figure in the Right, cited by prominent figures including Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann and Mike Huckabee, and who has even been invited to testify before the Senate about climate change.

Santorum’s remarks were so shocking because this is the first time they have been heard on the national political stage – but his talking points on environmentalism and progressive faith have already been polished and accepted as gospel by the movement the Religious Right.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/10/16/206882/glenn-beck-cornwall-alliance-exxonmobil-climate-change/

Video: Glenn Beck brings ExxonMobil-linked religious front group to tell Christians not to believe in “man-caused” climate change

By Joe Romm on Oct 16, 2010 at 8:56 am

“How is it we’ve had ice ages — and yet there were no SUVs?”

In June, ThinkProgress published an exclusive investigation into the Cornwall Alliance “” a corporate front designed to deceive evangelicals into doubting the science underpinning climate change. Yesterday, Fox News hate-talker Glenn Beck brought on a representative from the group to tout Cornwall’s new DVD, “Resisting the Green Dragon,” which claims the climate change movement is a “false religion,” and a nefarious conspiracy to empower eugenicists and create a “global government.” TP’s Lee Fang has the story.

The DVD, which Cornwall is distributing to evangelical churches around the country, seems to be designed perfectly for Beck’s world view, and unsurprisingly, the Cornwall guest and Beck exchanged bizarre conspiracy theories. Watch it:

The Cornwall Alliance appears to be a creation of a group called the James Partnership, a nonprofit run by Chris Rogers and Peter Stein, according to documents filed with the Virginia State Corporation Commission. Rogers, who heads a media and public relations firm called CDR Communications, collaborates with longtime oil front group operative David Rothbard, the founder and President of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and Jacques Villarreal, a lower level staffer at CFACT, for his James Partnership group. In the past, Rogers’ firm has worked for the Bush administration and for the secretive conservative planning group, the Council for National Policy.

According to public records, the following entities are all registered to the same address, 9302-C Old Keene Mill Road Burke, VA 22015, an office park in suburban Virginia:

Rogers’ consulting firm, CDR Communications

Rogers’ nonprofit hub, the James Partnership

The Cornwall Alliance

The new “Resisting the Green Dragon” website

In late 2005, evangelical leaders like Rick Warren joined a drive to back a major initiative to fight global warming, saying “millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors.” To counter this historic shift in the evangelical community, a group called the “Interfaith Stewardship Alliance” (ISA) was launched to oppose action on carbon emissions and to deny the existence of climate change. One of the men guiding this group was Paul Driessen, a consultant for ExxonMobil, the mining industry, and for CFACT.

The oily operators behind the religious climate change disinformation front group, Cornwall Alliance

By Climate Guest Blogger on Jun 19, 2010 at 7:27 am

Watch their absurdly paranoid video asserting environmentalism is “without doubt one of the greatest threats to society” today

Defenders of the dirty energy status quo, particularly the lobbyists and politicians associated with the oil and coal industry, have repeatedly trotted out a group of evangelical leaders known as the Cornwall Alliance to counter the growing sentiment in the evangelical community that anthropogenic climate change is a threat to God’s creation. Cornwall declares that true Christians believe “there is no convincing scientific evidence that human contribution to greenhouse gases is causing dangerous global warming.” In this repost, Wonk Room exposes the Big Oil funding behind the Cornwall Alliance

On Friday, at the polluter-funded Heritage Foundation, Cornwall rolled out its latest campaign called “Resisting the Green Dragon.” Billed as “a Biblical response to one of the greatest deceptions of our day,” the video series claims the entire climate change movement is a “false religion,” a nefarious conspiracy to empower eugenicists and create a “global government.” Watch the absurd trailer here, which portrays the idea of climate change as akin to the Lord of the Rings villain Sauron:

Thus far, Cornwall has been able to masquerade as a legitimate, independent group of pastors and religious leaders opposed to addressing climate change. However, ThinkProgress investigated the group and found deep ties to the oil industry, as well as with longtime right-wing operatives orchestrating the climate science denial machine.

The Cornwall Alliance appears to be a creation of a group called the James Partnership, a nonprofit run by Chris Rogers and Peter Stein, according to documents filed with the Virginia State Corporation Commission. Rogers, who heads a media and public relations firm called CDR Communications, collaborates with longtime oil front group operative David Rothbard, the founder and President of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and Jacques Villarreal, a lower level staffer at CFACT, for his James Partnership group. In the past, Rogers’ firm has worked for the Bush administration and for the secretive conservative planning group, the Council for National Policy.

According to public records, the following entities are all registered to the same address, 9302-C Old Keene Mill Road Burke, VA 22015, an office park in suburban Virginia:

Rogers’ consulting firm, CDR Communications

Rogers’ nonprofit hub, the James Partnership

The Cornwall Alliance

The new “Resisting the Green Dragon” website

In late 2005, evangelical leaders like Rick Warren joined a drive to back a major initiative to fight global warming, saying “millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors.” To counter this historic shift in the evangelical community, a group called the “Interfaith Stewardship Alliance” (ISA) was launched to oppose action on carbon emissions and to deny the existence of climate chance. One of the men guiding this group was Paul Driessen, a consultant for ExxonMobil, the mining industry, and for CFACT.

For “stream lining” reasons, ISA relaunched:{ as the Cornwall Alliance in 2006. With the new name came a redesigned website, }:{ web videos, and an organized }:network:{ of churches to distribute climate change denying propaganda to hundreds of pastors around the country. The branding for the Cornwall Alliance is derived from the “}:Cornwall Declaration:{,” a 1999 document pushing back against the creation-care movement in the evangelical community. The Declaration “stressed a free-market environmental stewardship and emphasized that individuals and private organizations should be trusted to care for their own property without government intervention.” }::{CFACT President Rothbard has been hailed as the “driving force” behind the Cornwall Declaration public relations effort.}:

But who is the “driving force” behind CFACT? According to disclosures, CFACT is funded by at least $542,000 from ExxonMobil, $60,500 from Chevron, and $1,280,000 from Scaife family foundations, which are rooted in wealth from Gulf Oil and steel interests.

CFACT and the Cornwall Alliance, according to disclosures filed with the Washington State Secretary of State’s office, share a common fundraising firm, ClearWord Communications Group. ClearWord has helped raise millions of dollars not only for CFACT and Cornwall, but also for infamous polluter front groups like FreedomWorks, the Institute for Energy Research, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Last year, Cornwall produced a video with former Sen. George Allen (R-VA) attacking clean energy legislation as part of a campaign by the ExxonMobil-funded “American Energy Freedom Center.”

In a call to the Cornwall Alliance’s media office Monday afternoon, spokesman Quena Gonzalez said Cornwall has no relationship to CFACT and said CFACT President Rothbard has no official capacity with his group. Gonzalez said that in “several years of working” at Cornwall, he has never heard any questions about working with CFACT, and instructed ThinkProgress to contact Calvin Beisner, the national representative for Cornwall. Incidentally, Beisner is a board member of CFACT.

Rothbard had a central role in sparking the founding of Cornwall and is currently a partner with Chris Rogers, the man who runs Cornwall and CDR Communications. Nevertheless, under his capacity as CFACT President, Rothbard’s anti-Greenpeace publicity stunts are reported regularly on the Cornwall blog as breaking news, without any acknowledgement of Rothbard’s relationship with Cornwall.

It appears that Cornwall attempts to carefully hide its backers. Not only did Gonzalez refuse to provide much information, but Cornwall’s website is registered with a special serviceto hide the identity of the person or group who purchased the domain address.

Calvin Beisner, Evangelical Christian, Claims Environmentalism Great Threat To Civilization

The Huffington Post | By Meredith Bennett-Smith

Posted: 03/21/2013 11:33 am EDT

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.

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 environmentalism is "the greatest threat to Western civilization."

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 Cornwall Alliance 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 climate change is caused by human activity, a 2011 poll found that Tea Party members and white evangelicals, such as Beisner, were statistically less likely to believe in evolution and climate changethan 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 "catastrophic consequences for the climate" 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, who has a doctorate in Scottish history, was also featured in Bill Moyers' 2006 documentary "Is God Green?"

During interviews for the special, Beisner said that Genesis dictates 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 Young Evangelicals for Climate Action take the stance that it is a Christian's duty to protect the planet.

(h/t Right Wing Watch)

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

Remember ‘The Story of Stuff’? It was a cartoon that the progressives put together to convince our kids that America is evil and that we’re destroying the planet..it’s now taught in 5,000 schools nation wide. Well- now, they are using that same ‘Story of Stuff’ message and heading into our churches and synagogues with a spin-off production called ‘Let There Be Stuff?’ It is a curriculum that in their words will help kids ‘explore their relationship between their consumption, their faith- and the health of the planet.’ What is the relationship… It is radical stuff!

The Story of Stuff – Wikipedia

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(November 10, 2010, Washington, DC) – At a critical moment in the global environmental debate, many of America’s top Christian leaders have joined with the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation to produce an explosive new 12-part DVD series, Resisting the Green Dragon, which begins shipping today both in the United States and abroad. The series sounds the alarm about dangerous environmental extremism and brings a Biblical viewpoint on environmental issues and creation stewardship to evangelical churches, ministries, and schools.

Here is a video from the Glen Beck show with members of the Cornwall Alliance here. Good information and we recommend the DVD series for Churches and small groups that want to understand why everything is going “Green”. What is behind it

The new video series – excerpts of which can be seen atwww.ResistingTheGreenDragon.com – comes at a time when environmental advocacy groups are frustrated that their top priority for the past two decades—a global treaty to curtail fossil fuel use to fight alleged catastrophic global warming—is losing steam

Attributing their trouble to politics and public relations campaigns rather than mounting scientific discoveries that undermine their theory, supporters of drastic reductions in carbon emissions recently persuaded the American Geophysical Union to try to revive the message by asking members to speak out in a “rapid response” media effort

Resisting the Green Dragon is therefore particularly timely because it not only refutes the scientific case for dangerous manmade warming and other “crises,” but also exposes how environmental organizations use sophisticated media campaigns and even seek increased global governance to promote their agenda among policy makers, religious leaders, and youth

“One of the greatest threats to society and the church today is the multifaceted environmentalist movement,” says Cornwall Alliance founder and national spokesman Dr. E. Calvin Beisner. “There isn’t an aspect of life that it doesn’t seek to force into its own mold.”

Many well-known Christian leaders agree. Focus on the Family’s Tom Minnery joined Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission’s Richard Land, Concerned Women for America’s Wendy Wright, Home School Legal Defense Association’s Michael Farris, National Religious Broadcasters’ Frank Wright, WallBuilders’ David Barton, and radio talk-show host Janet Parshall in filming introductions and commentary for the 12-part DVD series, which rolled out today.

“Resisting the Green Dragon is the result of Cornwall’s efforts in studying the environmental movement, analyzing its errors and identifying expert speakers who could address them with outstanding authority and grace,” Beisner said. The 12-part DVD series, and bonus 33-minute documentary, unite an impressive array of respected evangelical experts in science, theology, economics, and the environment. It includes a discussion guide, practical suggestions for small group projects, and other print and broadcast resources.

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“Today’s environmentalism isn’t a neutral set of ideas that can be tacked onto the Christian faith without theological compromise,” Beisner said. “Instead, it promotes its own worldview and its own doctrines of God, creation, humanity, sin, and salvation. And those doctrines aren’t Biblical.”

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Resisting the Green Dragon is a major, innovative education initiative that helps churches, schools, and other ministries to understand the difference between Biblical creation stewardship and both secular and religious environmentalism.

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“It’s important that churches ‘test all things, hold fast what is good,’ as the Apostle Paul put it,” says Beisner. “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.”

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Even when evangelical “creation care” is not theologically at fault, it often uncritically accepts claims of crisis that aren’t well supported by science, or offers solutions that are more harmful than beneficial. Since 2005, the Cornwall Alliance has warned evangelicals of this concerted, well-funded effort to infiltrate churches. The Resisting the Green Dragon DVD series provides evangelical churches with Biblically accurate resources on creation stewardship.

The 12 lectures include “The False World View of the Green Movement” and “Threats to Liberty and the Move toward a Global Government,” with Beisner; “Rescuing People from the Cult of the Green Dragon” and “Advancing the Gospel in a World Permeated by Environmentalism,” with Dr. Peter Jones; “Logos vs. Mysticism: Environmentalism’s Flight from Reason,” with Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi; “From Captain Planet to Avatar: The Seduction of Our Youth,” with Dr. Michael Farris; “A Brief History of Environmental Exaggerations, Myths, and Downright Lies,” with Dr. StevenHayward; “Putting Out the Dragon’s Fire on Global Warming,” with Dr. David R. Legates; “How ‘Going Green’ Impoverishes You, Your Church, and Your Society,” with Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop; “Ravaging the World’s Poor” and “A Biblical Guide to Genuine Creation Stewardship,” with Dr. James Tonkowich; and “The Green Face of the Pro-Death Agenda: Population Control, Abortion and Euthanasia,” with Dr. Charmaine Yoest.

Online: www.ResistingtheGreenDragon.com

The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation is a network of clergy, theologians, religious leaders, scientists, economists, and policy experts committed to bringing a balanced Biblical view of stewardship to the critical issues of environment and development. Since 2005, the Cornwall Alliance has been the leading evangelical voice on environmental stewardship and development.

* A note from Amos37, the YouTube account that hosts this propaganda piece of Radical Environmentalism. YouTube – psychetruth’s Channel You will note this huge emphasis on “SELF”. We just want to contrast a biblical worldview of responsible stewardship of our resources in Creation with that of a radical Pantheistic view like in the movie “Avatar” which promotes Animism.

http://amos37.com/2010/11/12/radical-stuff/

Cornwall Alliance Scholars

(*indicates also serves as a Contributing Writer; ^indicates also serves on the Advisory Board.)

Senior Fellows

Kenneth Chilton,*^ Ph.D., Senior Environmental Fellow, Institute for the Study of Economics & the Environment, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO
Wayne Grudem, Ph.D.,^ Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies, Phoenix Seminary, Phoenix, AZ
Daniel R. Heimbach,^ Ph.D., Senior Professor of Christian Ethics, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; Research Institute Fellow, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention
Peter Jones,*^ Ph.D., Executive Director, truthXchange, and Emeritus Professor of New Testament, Westminster Theological Seminary, Escondido, CA
David Legates,* Ph.D., Professor of Climatology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Vishal Mangalwadi, Ph.D., Theologian and Author, Founder, RevelationMovement.com, Pasadena, CA
Craig Vincent Mitchell,* Ph.D., Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX
Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D.,^ Principal Research Scientist, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, and Lead Scientist, NASA Aqua AMSR-3 Satellite Remote Sensing Program
Timothy Terrell,*^ Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC
G. Cornelis van Kooten,* Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Research Chair in Environmental Studies and Climate, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
James A. Wanliss,*^ Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics, Presbyterian College,Clinton, SC

Fellows

Barrett Duke,*^ Ph.D., Vice President, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention, Washington, DC
Stephen Livesay,^ Ph.D., President, Bryan College, Dayton, TN
Tracy Miller,*^ Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics, Grove City College, Grove City, PA
Ben Phillips,* Ph.D., Associate Dean, Havard School of Theological Studies, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX
Shawn Ritenour,* Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Grove City College, Grove City, PA

Adjunct Scholars

Mark Brandly, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI
Gordon Evans,* M.S., Environmental Manager, Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX
Steven Hayward,*^ Ph.D., Thomas Smith Distinguished Visiting Professor, Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio; Secretary of Energy & Interior under President Ronald Reagan; author of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators
Jamieson C. Keister,* Ph.D., (Ret.) Pharmaceutical Research Specialist, 3M Company, Lakeville, MN
Kevin Alan Lewis, Ph.D., Professor of Theology and Law, Biola University, La Mirada, CA
Michael Salazar,* Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, Union University, Jackson, TN
Chris Skates,* M.S., Plant Chemistry Supervisor, Electric Energy Inc., Joppa, IL

Contributing Writers

William Anderson, Associate Professor of Economics, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD
William D. Balgord, President, Environmental & Resources Technology, Inc., Middleton, WI
Michael E. Bauman, Ph.D., Professor of Theology & Culture, Hillsdale College,Hillsdale, MI
Kenneth Chilton,^ Ph.D., Senior Environmental Fellow, Institute for the Study of Economics & the Environment, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO
Charles Clough, Ph.D., Atmospheric Physicist (Ret.), Adjunct Professor, Chafer Theological Seminary, Bel Air, MD
Mark Coppenger, Ph.D., Professor of Christian Apologetics, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY
Rev. Richard S. Courtney, Expert Reviewer, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Methodist Preacher, Cornwall, UK
Doug Daugherty, Project Manager, The Maclellan Foundation, Chattanooga, TN
Barrett Duke,^ Ph.D., Vice President, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention, Washington, DC
Arthur Eberle, M.S., President, Compliance Assurance, Harvest, AL
Gordon Evans, M.S., Environmental Manager,Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX
Bill Flax, Columnist, Forbes, Cincinnati, OH
Steven Hayward,^ Ph.D., Thomas Smith Distinguished Visiting Professor, Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio; Secretary of Energy & Interior under President Ronald Reagan; author of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators
Peter Jones,^ Ph.D., Executive Director, truthXchange, and Emeritus Professor of New Testament, Westminster Theological Seminary, Escondido, CA
Jamieson C. Keister, Ph.D., (Ret.) Pharmaceutical Research Specialist, 3M Company, Lakeville, MN
Edward Krug, Ph.D., (Ret.) Soil and Water Scientist, Illinois State Water Survey and National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, Urbana, IL
David Legates, Ph.D., Professor of Climatology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Terry Lovell, Ph.D., Professor of Business, Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ
Anthony Lupo, Ph.D., Department Chair and Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Ronald Marks, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, North Greenville University, Greenville, SC
Tracy Miller,^ Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics, Grove City College, Grove City, PA
C. Ben Mitchell, Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy, Union University, Jackson, TN
Craig Vincent Mitchell, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX
Rev. Mark Musser, M.D., Pastor, Grace Redeemer Bible Church, Olympia, WA
Todd Pedlar, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics, Luther College, Decorah, IA
Ben Phillips, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Havard School of Theological Studies, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX
Shawn Ritenour, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Grove City College, Grove City, PA
Anthony J. Sadar, M.S., Adjunct Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Statistics, Air Pollution, Meteorology, & Engineering, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA
Michael Salazar, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, Union University, Jackson, TN
David Shormann, Ph.D., Marine Chemist and Limnologist, President, DIVE (Digital Interactive Video Education), Houston, TX
Chris Skates, M.S., Plant Chemistry Supervisor, Electric Energy Inc., Joppa, IL
John Sparks, Ph.D., Dean of Humanities, Grove City College, Grove City, IL
John Swayze, Ph.D. (Ret.), Organic, Medicinal, and Agricultural Chemist, Carmel, IN
Timothy Terrell,^ Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC
Ashley Thorne, Director of Communications, National Association of Scholars, Princeton, NJ
Charles Van Eaton, Ph.D., Professor of Economics (Ret.), Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI; Pepperdine University, Santa Monica, CA; Bryan College, Dayton, TN
G. Cornelis van Kooten, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Research Chair in Environmental Studies and Climate, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Stephen Vantassel, Ph.D., Wildlife Control Consultant, Project Coordinator, Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
James A. Wanliss,^ Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
Alan Wisdom, independent writer and consultant, former Vice President, Institute on Religion & Democracy

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PREAMBLE

As governments consider policies to fight alleged man-made global warming, evangelical leaders have a responsibility to be well informed, and then to speak out. *A Renewed Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Examination of the Theology, Science, and Economics of Global Warming*demonstrates that many of these proposed policies would destroy jobs and impose trillions of dollars in costs to achieve no net benefits. They could be implemented only by enormous and dangerous expansion of government control over private life. Worst of all, by raising energy prices and hindering economic development, they would slow or stop the rise of the world’s poor out of poverty and so condemn millions to premature death.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

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. Earth’s climate system is no exception. Recent global warming is one of many natural cycles of warming and cooling in geologic history.
We believe abundant, affordable energy is indispensable to human flourishing, particularly to societies which are rising out of abject poverty and the high rates of disease and premature death that accompany it. With present technologies,fossil and nuclear fuels are indispensable if energy is to be abundant and affordable.
We believe mandatory reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, achievable mainly by greatly reduced use of fossil fuels, will greatly increase the price of energy and harm economies.
We believe such policies will harm the poor more than others because the poor spend a higher percentage of their income on energy and desperately need economic growth to rise out of poverty and overcome its miseries.

WHAT WE DENY

We deny that Earth and its ecosystems are the fragile and unstable products of chance, and particularly that Earth’s climate system is vulnerable to dangerous alteration because of minuscule changes in atmospheric chemistry. Recent warming was neither abnormally large nor abnormally rapid. There is no convincing scientific evidence that human contribution to greenhouse gases is causing dangerous global warming.
We deny that alternative, renewable fuels can, with present or near-term technology, replace fossil and nuclear fuels, either wholly or in significant part, to provide the abundant, affordable energy necessary to sustain prosperous economies or overcome poverty.
We deny that carbon dioxide—essential to all plant growth—is a pollutant.Reducing greenhouse gases cannot achieve significant reductions in future global temperatures, and the costs of the policies would far exceed the benefits.
We deny that such policies, which amount to a regressive tax, comply with the Biblical requirement of protecting the poor from harm and oppression.

A CALL TO ACTION

In light of these facts,

We call on our fellow Christians to practice creation stewardship out of Biblical conviction, adoration for our Creator, and love for our fellow man—especially the poor.
We call on Christian leaders to understand the truth about climate change andembrace Biblical thinking, sound science, and careful economic analysis in creation stewardship.
We call on political leaders to adopt policies that protect human liberty,make energy more affordable, and free the poor to rise out of poverty, while abandoning fruitless, indeed harmful policies to control global temperature.

ENDORSEMENT

While our signatures express our endorsement only of this Declaration and do not imply agreement with every point in A Renewed Call to Truth, we believe that document provides ample justification for it. We call on scholars and experts to join us in signing this Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming

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