The Heartland Institute

It has become a truism that environmentalists want alternative energy from wind, sun, water to replace our reliance on fossil fuels. The trouble with this truism is that it isn t true. Yes, in the abstract, environmentalists are all for so-called renewable sources of energy. But when it comes to specific projects it s another ...

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 ...

The Little Ice Age brought human misery and environmental havoc on a terrible scale. Crops failed, human life spans declined, famine and plague became regular events, and the Black Plague inflicted such widespread and painful death that it assaults the human psyche to this day. So why is it that so many people yearn for a ...

The object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the most remarkable instances of those moral epidemics which have been excited, sometimes by one cause and sometimes by another, and to show how easily the masses have been led astray, and how imitative and gregarious men are, even in their infatuations ...

William Happer, the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics at Princeton University, has just published an excellent summary of the important issues regarding human carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. Happer, an avid environmentalist, explains why atmospheric carbon dioxide benefits global plant life and is not posing ...

When the National Research Council, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, released its America s Climate Choices report this week, a quick look at the roster of authors revealed how biased and unqualified the authors were. A little more research shows just how woeful the panel is. Only 23 people served on the panel ...

One of the most often asserted crises associated with global warming is the claim that global warming is causing or will cause snowpack in the western United States to become smaller and to melt earlier in the year. Like so many other asserted global warming crises, however, real-world conditions are contradicting (and some ...

The National Research Council (NRC), a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, has released a new report, America s Climate Choices , claiming humans are primarily responsible for recent climate change that is posing significant risks to the environment and human welfare. The media is having a field day claiming the NRC ...

Catastrophic sea level rise is one of the most valued hole cards played by alarmists in the global warming debate. In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore showed computer generated images of what Manhattan would look like if sea level rose 20 feet. Building on this theme, elevation charts of coastal cities have become a staple ...

With an issue as scientifically complex as global warming, nonscientists can often feel they simply don t know enough about the scientific complexities to make an informed judgment for themselves. The debate over last week s tragic tornado outbreak, however, has given us an unexpected opportunity to present much of the global ...

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 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 ...

On Friday my new paper on climate change science and economics was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, a peer-reviewed journal. The paper is unusual from a number of different perspectives. From a policy perspective, the paper s conclusions include the following: The economic benefits ...

In testimony to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Professor J. Scott Armstrong of the University of Pennsylvania, described research he conducted with Kesten C. Green, University of South Australia, and Willie Soon, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, to determine the ...

The news media are flush with stories claiming global warming is crushing global crop production. According to the media, global warming is putting the hurt on two of our favorite indulgences coffee and beer. For the more globally conscious (or less caffeinated/less inebriated) among us, the media are also focusing attention ...

Japan is grappling with a triple tragedy: earthquake, tsunami and possible nuclear radiation. This has brought rolling blackouts, as authorities strive to meet electricity demands with reduced supplies and crippled transmission lines. However, power cuts and inadequate power are routine in developing countries like India. For them ...

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), cosponsor of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill that the Obama Treasury Department estimates would cost the average U.S. household nearly $3,000 every year, claims you are a science denier if you are skeptical of speculative climate models. Waxman used the science denier label in a March 7 talk at ...

Sitting in on a March 1 Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) press conference regarding global warming and heavy snowfalls, I couldn t help feeling like the chairman of the Senate committee questioning mafia capo Frank Pentangeli in Godfather II. The chairman, listening incredulously as Pentangeli contradicts a sworn written statement ...

The media is flush with articles this morning claiming global warming is the cause of the multitude of heavy snow events the past two winters. The news hook is a March 1 press conference in which the Union of Concerned Scientists presented two scientists making such a claim. A Union of Concerned Scientists press conference ...

In politics, Reagan Democrats provide a good sample for determining whether moderate Democrats are breaking ranks on a particular issue. Clinton Republicans provide the flip side of this equation. In the global warming debate, Judith Curry might fit the bill of a Reagan Warmist (or Clinton Warmist, if you will). Curry, who ...