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1 week ago | 
heartland.org | H. Sterling Burnett |Sterling Burnett
‘Cheap’ Wind and Solar Raise Electricity Prices Climate Change Wildfire Role: Not Statistically Significant Modern Floods Are Hardly Historic, Flooding Was Much Greater During Past Periods Multiple studies have demonstrated wind and solar power remain more expensive than historically traditional sources of electricity, such as coal, natural gas, nuclear, and hydropower, and Energy Information Administration data back that up—disproving claims by renewable energy profiteers and their lobbying...
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1 month ago | 
heartland.org | H. Sterling Burnett |Sterling Burnett
Big Tech Embraces Reliable Energy, Jettisons Wind, SolarSubsidence, Rising Seas, Drive Sinking CitiesOverseas Windfarms Closing EarlyIn late October 2024, The Heartland Institute released a study I coauthored with Heartland President James Taylor and Robinson Center Research Fellow Linnea Lueken describing the high costs utilities are foisting upon ratepayers and taxpayers in their profiteering quest to replace fossil fuels with unreliable so-called renewables.
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1 month ago | 
heartland.org | H. Sterling Burnett |Sterling Burnett
Unreported Conflicts of Interest Rife in Climate Research Climate Agreements Be Damned, Coal Use Continues Growing Japanese, Korean Sea Level Data Show No Climate Change Effect I have written in the past concerning how the mainstream media’s objectivity concerning climate change is being compromised by direct payments from advocacy organizations to cover the “climate crisis.” To take just one example, the Associated Press, arguably the preeminent newswire service, receives millions of dollars...
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1 month ago | 
climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Anthony Watts |Sterling Burnett
No, Axios, Climate Change Is Not Making Atlanta’s Allergy Season WorseBy Anthony Watts and Sterling BurnettAxios Atlanta recently published an article titled “Pollen season in Atlanta is getting worse, thanks to climate change,” claiming that rising temperatures caused by climate change are making allergy season more severe. Axios’ article is misleading at best, and misses a larger point.
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1 month ago | 
climatechangedispatch.com | Thomas Richard |Anthony Watts |Sterling Burnett
Axios Atlanta recently published an article titled “Allergy season is getting longer in Atlanta. Blame climate change,” claiming that rising temperatures caused by climate change are making allergy season more severe. Axios’ article is misleading at best and misses a larger point.
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1 month ago | 
heartland.org | H. Sterling Burnett |Sterling Burnett
Budget-Busting Climate Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act Must GoAtlantic Circulation Not Waning in Response to Climate ChangeCrops Doing Fine, Increase in Social Cost of Carbon Calculation Was UnwarrantedThe (IRA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 16, 2022. The bill was badly mistitled and intentionally so.
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2 months ago | 
heartland.org | H. Sterling Burnett |Sterling Burnett
Paris Climate Treaty Is Going DownMexico’s Emissions CheatWildfire Severity Is Unusually Low, Study Calls It a DeficitWith history as a guide and two months to prepare for the announcement, there was relatively little wailing and gnashing of teeth when President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement (for the second time; the lamentations were much greater in 2017) on his first day back in office.
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2 months ago | 
heartland.org | H. Sterling Burnett |Sterling Burnett
Carbon Capture and Storage Is a Bad Climate PolicyBrazil Is Not Meeting Paris Emission CommitmentsClimate Policies: Dramatically Higher Electricity Costs and Reduced Reliability in New EnglandThe climate “hoax,” as President Donald Trump calls it, and the “green new scam,” also in Trump’s words, have spawned a plethora of bad ideas and policies.
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2 months ago | 
heartland.org | H. Sterling Burnett |Sterling Burnett
Trump’s Energy and Climate EOs Thus Far: Pt. 2New Ice Flow Research Tempers Sea Level Rise ClaimsCCW 532 examined some of the executive orders (EOs) and policy memoranda President Donald Trump issued in the first hours of his administration to advance his goal of making America energy-dominant while creating jobs and shoring up national security. Below I discuss a few more of these actions and the responses so far. Among Trump’s day-one actions was a regulatory freeze pending review.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
heartland.org | H. Sterling Burnett |Sterling Burnett
Energy, Climate Top Agenda Items for Trump’s Busy First Days: Pt. 1Contra NOAA, Antarctic Sea Ice Is Well Within the ‘Range of Observed Variability’There’s a (re)new(ed) sheriff in town. With the swearing in of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States, the nation’s environment, energy, and climate policies took a dramatic shift.
