The Heartland Institute

Not 24 hours after the tragic Oklahoma tornado, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) began callously exploiting the tragedy to advance their own political agenda regarding global warming. Not only were they shameless in their politicization of a national tragedy, their global warming arguments are equal ...

What can be learned from a cursory glance at the data? That the CO2 concentration of Earth’s atmosphere appears to have had no consistent impact on July air temperatures in the vicinity of North Lake, Greenland, over the past seven millennia... Read More Divining Future Winter Wheat Yields in the United Kingdom (21 May ...

Anchorage, Alaska set a record last week for its longest snow season on record. The city also set a record for its lowest May 17 maximum temperature. Global warming activists often claim Alaska is among the places most negatively affected by warming temperatures. In his movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore claimed warming ...

Global warming alarmists are breathlessly filling the media with sensationalist reports of carbon dioxide levels approaching 400 parts per million (that’s 4 parts per 10,000, or a 0.0004 share of the atmosphere, versus just under 300 parts per million, or a 0.0003 share of the atmosphere, prior to the Industrial Revolution). The ...

Global warming alarmists are breathlessly filling the media with sensationalist reports of carbon dioxide levels approaching 400 parts per million (that’s 4 parts per 10,000, or a 0.0004 share of the atmosphere, versus 3 parts per million, or a 0.0003 share of the atmosphere, prior to the Industrial Revolution). The central ...

Islands in Tuvalu and other Pacific regions that served as poster children for global warming and sea level rise are actually growing, scientists acknowledge. Scientists report 80 percent of South Pacific islands are either growing or remaining the same size. “Some of those islands have gotten dramatically larger, by 20 or 30 ...

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, whose agency oversees state energy policy, told Rep. Mike Fasano (R-New Port Richey) today he does not have the resources to perform an economic analysis to determine whether a proposed nuclear power plant would end up costing electricity customers more than a new natural gas facility ...

San Jose State University faculty recently decided the best way to address scientific criticisms of alarmist global warming theory was to burn the books containing such criticisms . Pierre Gosselin, administrator of the No Tricks Zone website, pointed out disturbing parallels between the book burning at San Jose State and book ...

Antarctic temperatures are not rising at all and have slightly declined during the past 33 years, satellite data show. Steven Goddard provides a powerful chart on his Real Science website of Antarctic temperatures as measured since 1979 by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) instruments aboard NASA satellites ...

Just about every type of extreme weather event is becoming less frequent and less severe in recent years as our planet continues its modest warming in the wake of the Little Ice Age. While global warming activists attempt to spin a narrative of ever-worsening weather, the objective facts tell a completely different story. New ...

The United States is undergoing its longest stretch in recorded history without a major hurricane strike, with each passing day extending the unprecedented lack of severe hurricanes, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data. It has been more than 2,750 days since a major hurricane struck the United States ...

Fewer tornadoes have struck the United States during the past 12 months than in any other 12-month period in U.S. history, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports . The past 12 months not only broke the previous record, it blew the old record away. During the past 12 months, merely 197 tornadoes struck the ...

How good are the simulations of the most up-to-date climate models? Authors Kim et al. (2012) assessed the seasonal prediction skill for the Northern Hemisphere winter and found a number of biases that have yet to be overcome... Read More Projections of CMIP5 Models: Will They Ever Come Together? (30 Apr 2013) An unfortunate ...

A prolonged decline in solar output will begin sometime around 2040 and subject the Earth to global cooling that will last 200-250 years, scientists at Russia’s Pulkovo Observatory report. "Evidently, solar activity is on the decrease,” explained Pulkovo scientist Yuri Nagovitsyn . “The 11-year cycle doesn’t bring about considerable ...

Sea level is rising at a pace of merely six inches per century, tide gauges at 86 coastal stations in Australia show. Scientists reported the tide gauge data in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science . Importantly, the scientists reported the modest pace of Australian sea level rise is consistent with the modest pace ...

Suzanne Goldenberg displayed the establishment media’s inexcusable ignorance and/or willful distortion of the global warming debate in a Thursday ‘news’ article in the prominent U.K. newspaper The Guardian . Writing about an effort by the Obama administration to politicize the global warming debate and direct public ridicule at ...

Suzanne Goldberg displayed the establishment media’s inexcusable ignorance and/or willful distortion of the global warming debate in a Thursday ‘news’ article in the prominent UK newspaper The Guardian . Writing about an effort by the Obama administration to politicize the global warming debate and direct public ridicule at Republicans ...

The Colorado House of Representatives Transportation and Energy Committee is holding hearings tomorrow on legislation to dramatically increase the amount of expensive renewable power consumers are forced to purchase. Under current law, rural electric customers in Colorado must purchase 10 percent of their electricity from specially ...

Climate models supporting predictions of rapid global warming during the next century have performed miserably predicting global temperatures during the past two decades, according to a just-published comparison of model predictions and real-world temperatures. A spaghetti graph comparing 44 climate models with real-world temperature ...

Opponents of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline are increasingly trumpeting private property rights as a reason people should oppose the pipeline. Drawing upon small-government conservatives’ wariness of the federal government abusing its eminent domain power, environmental activist groups are suddenly presenting themselves as champions ...