The Heartland Institute

Heartland Policy Advisor Norm Rogers recently visited the California Academy of Sciences, which, he notes, " occupies a new building located in San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Park. Perhaps it should not be called a building, but a palace. The cost of the project was $488 million or about $1,200 per square foot. The money ...

Global warming is rapidly increasing Northern Hemisphere temperatures, as it does every summer, but alarmists in the media are doing their best to make it seem like summer heat waves never occurred before. They are also misleading people into believing hot temperatures kill more people than cold temperatures. An article in the ...

The liberal media this morning is trumpeting a new study claiming global warming will cause millions of Mexicans to illegally cross the border into the U.S. as a result of warming-related crop failure. The message being peddled is that conservatives who want to control our borders should therefore rally behind costly global ...

Speaking at a public forum Thursday evening, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) predicted the Arctic ocean will lose all its ice within five or 10 years. Here are Kerry s exact words: The Arctic ice is disappearing faster than was predicted. And instead of waiting until 2030 or whenever it was to have an ice-free Arctic, we re going ...

This morning s Nashville Tennessean reports that according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, The Southeast is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change. This assertion is rather odd. A quick Google search for global warming and particularly vulnerable shows a plethora of states, regions, and groups all alleged ...

Global warming raises water shortage risks in one-third of U.S. counties, blares a July 20 headline in USA Today . But don t rush to fill and stockpile canteens, because this scare has as little merit as the dozens of other global warming crises that never lived up to their billing. First, consider the source for the scare ...

According to Heartland Policy Advisor Norm Rogers, The Franklin Institute's " Our Changing Earth" exhibit " pushes alarmist environmental buttons, not just on global warming and energy, but on other issues too, such as water and land use." The Franklin Institute, in Philadelphia, is a large and well-known museum that emphasizes ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to round up enough votes to pass a counterpart to the House's Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill that would impose an 83 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Proponents of the restrictions, which would require the average U.S. citizen to emit no more carbon dioxide than the ...

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has taken another credibility hit as the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (NEAA) a branch of the Dutch government released a report showing IPCC overstated grossly overstated sea level rise and that the IPCC report as a whole tend[s] to single out ...

Chicago's lakefront, with its beautiful parks and spectacular museums, is one of the wonders of the urban world. So how could the esteemed Field Museum, its crown jewel, come up with such a wonderfully bad exhibit on climate change? It opened June 25. The Field enjoys a fantastic reputation for intellectual stimulation, which ...

Anybody wondering why the dinosaur media is losing readers and credibility should read Time magazine s June 17 article, Hot Times in Antarctica. Time s Hot Times in Antarctica article states, the western edge of the Antarctic Peninsula is especially steamy. Over the past 50 years, winter temperatures have shot up by an almost ...

Global warming is not a crisis and should not be treated as one. Congress s pending cap and trade bills would do much more economic harm than environmental good, just as the Environmental Protection Agency s recent global warming regulations are bound to do. Such measures kill jobs and impose high costs on the American people ...

The National Academy of Sciences Thursday reasserted its opinion that the Earth s climate has warmed to crisis levels and that human activity the burning of fossil fuels is the primary cause. In its 869-page report, the NAS, a group of American researchers that advises the U.S. government, urged Congress to adopt specific ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has rejected opposition from environmental activist groups and approved extensive field tests of genetically modified eucalyptus trees in the Southeastern U.S. Eucalyptus trees, which grow much faster than native pines and therefore have greater value for wood and biofuel production, are currently ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) declared last week that he is making global warming the Senate s top priority. With legislation likely to impose monumental costs on the nation s economy while accomplishing no real-world climate benefits, this is a fitting conclusion for a Congress intent on bankrupting the nation through ...

Land use planners need to prepare for higher temperatures and more prevalent drought as a result of increasing greenhouse gas emissions, speakers from various government agencies told an audience primarily composed of government land use managers at the Great Basin and Mojave Desert Climate Change Workshop last week in Las Vegas ...

This week I am attending the Great Basin and Mojave Desert Climate Change Workshop, sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, among other groups. A federal scientist began his presentation by asserting, Human beings have cancelled out the next two ice ages, the way it s looking. So ...

John Cook, a former student of physics in Australia, has constructed an interesting website trying to attack the opinions of climate skeptics: Skeptical Science: Getting skeptical about global warming skepticism. Lubo Motl says It s been in my climate bookmarks for quite some time but no one really cared about it so I didn ...

The Gulf Stream shows no sign of slowing down, scientists at NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory report in the peer-reviewed Geophysical Research Letters , putting to rest assertions that global warming could trigger the next ice age by shutting down the oceanic conveyor belt. Al Gore and other global warming alarmists received prominent ...

This past decade set a record for largest average global snow extent, according to the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab, slightly exceeding the prior records set in the 1960s and 1970s. The new snow record is an embarrassing blow to global warming alarmists who have gone on record claiming global warming is causing a decline ...