The Heartland Institute

On July 7, Media Matters for America posted a lengthy piece by Jocelyn Fong about The Heartland Institute s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change , which took place in Washington DC the week before. Although Media Matters is known for its liberal partisanship and ad hominem attacks, this article is actually a serious ...

I just finished listening in on the Center for American Progress press call titled, Climate Deniers Congregate in the Nation s Capital. The press call s explicit purpose was to criticize the Heartland Institute s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, taking place tomorrow and Friday in Washington, DC. The presenters ...

A new study by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) claims Greenland is undergoing accelerating ice melt that will cause global sea level to rise much faster than projected by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). According to the report, the accelerating Greenland ice melt will cause ...

The Obama Interior Department has issued a paper claiming global warming will harm water supplies in the western United States. The Obama administration claiming global warming is or will be a bad thing is no more newsworthy than Obama administration claiming higher taxes and more federal spending is a good thing. Nevertheless ...

The University of East Anglia of Climategate fame scene of the embarrassing emails that disgraced the global warming cause has once again been embarrassed, this time through a failed attempt to silence one of the UK s most brilliant and biting global warming sceptics. James Delingpole, a take-no-prisoner blogger with the Daily ...

April and May are the heart of the U.S. tornado season. The U.S. averages 1,200 tornadoes each year, killing an average of 65 people and injuring another 1,500. Damage totals in a single day can exceed $1 billion. Global warming alarmists frequently claim global warming is increasing tornado activity and danger. Al Gore claimed ...

In this Sunshine Week amid revelations that the vow of transparency was not, as George Stephanopoulos famously said about Bill Clinton s truthiness, one of the campaign promises Barack Obama intended to keep I have just filed an administrative appeal with NASA challenging its thoroughly puzzling refusal to release ethics-related ...

Chalk up yet another global warming scare as nothing more than an urban legend. Yesterday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) published a detailed analysis concluding it not likely there was any connection between the heavy mid-Atlantic snowstorms during early 2010 and global warming. Environmental activist ...

In An Inconvenient Truth , Al Gore blames just about everything imaginable on global warming. Moreover, he mentions just about anything possible that could happen, and blames these speculative events on global warming, also. With that in mind, does anybody remember the part where he says global warming causes or will cause ...

The Wall Street Journal has published an interesting article this morning regarding extreme weather. The Journal notes that a group of scientists with the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project has analyzed extreme weather since 1871 and found no increase in extreme weather." In the climate models, the extremes get more extreme ...

Environmental activist Peter Gleick published an article in the Huffington Post yesterday blasting the Heartland Institute for coming to Dr. Harrison Schmitt s defense after University of New Mexico adjunct professor Mark Boslough accused Schmitt of lying about climate data. Gleick s article is no more truthful than Boslough s false ...

Philip Angell of the World Resources Institute had a letter published in the New York Times this week blaming recent floods and droughts on global warming. He talks about a new normal of extreme weather events. Yet floods and droughts have occurred throughout the earth s history, and likely always will. So what evidence do ...

Global warming alarmists are crying wolf again, this time regarding flooding in eastern Australia. Scientific evidence, however, clearly shows the alarmists are playing fast and loose with the facts. Pointing Finger at Global Warming ABC News has published an article this morning titled, Raging Waters in Australia and Brazil Product ...

More than 40,000 Velvet swimming crabs have washed up dead along Britain s east coast this year, killed by this winter s unusually cold conditions. One might expect global warming alarmists to feign ignorance about this one, but EcoWorld Magazine is taking the issue head on. The cold-induced crab deaths, EcoWorld claims in an ...

Unusually cold and snowy conditions across England in the final weeks of autumn are, according to today's London Telegraph , causing train services to grind to a halt and roads to become impassable. Such unusually cold and snowy conditions, simultaneous with the UN climate talks in Cancun, would seem to be occurring at an ...

John Abraham, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, and Scott Mandia, a non-Ph.D. meteorology instructor at a community college in New York, are putting together a climate rapid response team to discredit global warming skeptics whenever they appear in the media, the Los ...

William Connolley, a founding blogger at the alarmist website RealClimate.org, has been banned from altering any Wikipedia biographies or entries related to global warming. Connolley was banned by the unanimous vote of a panel of Wikipedia administrators after he was found to have engaged in repeated misbehavior in altering global ...

The Huffington Post has published a silly article titled, Republican Global Warming Deniers Funded by Energy Industry. Taking aim at U.S. Senate nominee Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, the article leads off by asserting, Trolling Opensecrets.org, HuffPost found Toomey's top contributors include oil and coal giants Koch Industries ($15 ...

The dinosaur mainstream media (aka lamestream media) is dying, which is sending static statists and liberal propagandists into a panic, demanding government bailouts and subsidies for these failed institutions. But while the lamestream media is dying, alternative news sources are thriving. Rather than lobby the government to take ...

When it comes to global warming, the public at large doesn't know what to believe anymore. Global warming alarmists have been hammering at us for years; the media is made up mostly of " true believers" ; and politicians, who, in the absence of understanding and knowledge about climate science have put themselves out on a limb ...