Environment and Climate News Podcast
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Texas Flood: The Truth – The Climate Realism Show #164
Podcast -The tragedy on the Guadalupe River in Texas is as shocking and sad as it gets. A flash flood took the lives of at least 100 people, including many children, at a popular Christian summer camp held in the floodplain. Climate alarmists and ghoulish politicians were quick to blame both climate change and budget and […] -
Physicists Debunk Net Zero: No Dangerous Warming from CO₂ – The Climate Realism Show #163
Podcast -Two of the most prestigious physicists in America have written a new paper explaining why greenhouse gases (GHG) produced by human activity — namely carbon dioxide — cannot cause dangerous warming on the planet. Based on their findings, Dr. Will Happer and Dr. Richard Lindzen urge Congress to repeal all Net Zero subsidies, all laws […] -
Surviving the Coming Heat Wave (will be easy) – The Climate Realism Show #162
Podcast -The corporate climate-alarmist media is already turning up the heat—on your TV, not outside—by hyping a summer warm spell as a “heat dome” threatening “dangerous heat and humidity” across much of America next week. Yes, it’s going to be hot. It’s summer. But the data tell a different story: there’s no long-term trend showing an […] -
Hurricane Season Preview with guest Stan Goldenberg – The Climate Realism Show #161
Podcast -Hurricane season has begun, and while it’s quiet so far, what kind of year can we expect? The Heartland Institute welcomes back Stanley Goldenberg—one of America’s leading hurricane forecasters—to find out. We’ll also tackle the week’s Crazy Climate News: Greta Thunberg’s latest publicity stunt, a proposal to nuke the ocean floor for “carbon capture,” Trump […] -
Hurricane Season Preview with guest Stan Goldenberg – The Climate Realism Show #161
Podcast -Hurricane season has begun, and while it’s quiet so far, what kind of year can we expect? The Heartland Institute welcomes back Stanley Goldenberg—one of America’s leading hurricane forecasters—to find out. We’ll also tackle the week’s Crazy Climate News: Greta Thunberg’s latest publicity stunt, a proposal to nuke the ocean floor for “carbon capture,” Trump […] -
Straight Talk: Climate Q&A Marathon with guest Chris Martz – The Climate Realism Show #160
Podcast -We get so many great questions in each episode of The Climate Realism Show that we decided to dedicate a whole episode to it. Well, all of it but our coverage of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, of course. UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling (again) for the censorship of climate realists, another […] -
Climate Realism Gains Ground in Europe – Live from Budapest! – The Climate Realism Show #159
Podcast -The Heartland Institute and Heartland UK/Europe have been in Poland and Hungary this week, meeting with leaders of the conservative movement and top politicians. Opposition to Net Zero in Europe is real—and growing. Just a few years ago, even right-leaning public figures were reluctant to publicly oppose the Big Green agenda, and hardly ever spoke […] -
Climate and Energy in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill – The Climate Realism Show #158
Podcast -Donald Trump achieved a major political and policy victory on Thursday when the U.S. House of Representatives passed what he calls his “Big Beautiful Bill.” The less-creative name is the budget reconciliation bill, which presidents for years have used to implement large parts of their agenda. (That’s how we got “Obamacare.”) The bill includes many […] -
SHOCK CLIMATE REPORT! Urban Heat Islands Responsible for 65% of Global Warming — The Climate Realism Show #157
Podcast -A new study from the University of Alabama in Huntsville addresses the question of how much the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is responsible for the higher temperatures at weather stations across the world. Dr. Roy Spencer and Dr. John Christy have spent several years developing a novel method that quantifies, for the first time, […] -
A Critique of the Climate Apocalypse with Dr. Judith Curry — The Climate Realism Show #156
Podcast -A new paper by Dr. Judith Curry, one of the world’s most prominent scientists skeptical of a looming human-caused climate catastrophe, and economist Harry DeAngelo cautions investors and the public that “the apocalyptic climate narrative is a seriously flawed guide for public policy.” Why? “Because it radically overstates the risks to humanity from continued global […] -
The Pain in Spain Is Renewably Insane – The Climate Realism Show #155
Podcast -In mid-April, Spain’s socialist government bragged that, for the first time, the nation was powered by 100 percent “renewable” energy—mostly solar and wind. One week later, Spain, Portugal, parts of France, and several other countries suffered the largest peacetime blackout in their histories. Net Zero came to Europe all right—as in zero energy. We were […] -
US Exiting the Climate Alarm Cabal — The Climate Realism Show #153
Podcast -In news that has climate alarmists in an even greater panic, the Trump administration is ending funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the panel that produced the federal government’s National Climate Assessment every four years. Several officials in the office have reportedly been fired, and Trump’s NASA has canceled the contract with the […] -
Checking in on Net Zero in the UK — The Climate Realism Show #152
Podcast -The Net Zero project in Great Britain, so the country does it’s part to stop climate change, has a true believer behind it in leftist Prime Minister Keir Starmer. But recent opinion polls show the public is starting to turn dramatically against it, especially when the economic costs become increasingly real. A London Times poll […] -
The Sun and Climate Change (Guest: Dr. Willie Soon) — The Climate Realism Show #151
Podcast -Why does the sun always get short shrift when it comes to the causes of climate change? Dr. Willie Soon is on the pod to explain. -
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The High Cost of Climate Scams in Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act
Podcast -The other day, Donald Kendall, director of the Glenn C. Haskins Emerging Issues Center at the Heartland Institute, was a guest on the Shawn Thompson Show on AM 560 The Answer in Chicago. Donald is a regular guest on Sean’s show and was invited on this time to talk about a new heartlands to paper […] -
Obama’s Climate Agenda: R.I.P. — The Climate Realism Show #149
Podcast -The new EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, dropped the Mother of All Bombs this week on the radical environmental agenda that has dominated Washington, DC since the start of the Obama administration. If it holds, the impact will be devastating. The Heartland Institute’s Sterling Burnett and Jim Lakely are joined by SPECIAL GUESTS Matthew M. […] -
Backbone of Climate Agenda Endangered – The Climate Realism Show #147
Podcast -Big news this week as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has reportedly told the White House it should officially abandon the ruling that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health and welfare. The so-called “endangerment finding” for carbon dioxide and methane emissions forms the backbone of government regulations to “fight climate change” by heavily regulating […] -
Is it Over for the MSM? – In The Tank #485
Podcast -The FBI is investigating an alleged “honeypot” operation against the 2016 Trump campaign, in which Comey’s FBI may have planted female agents to try to compromise Trump. It has been a tough week for our mainstream media elites—multiple MSM personalities were fired or retired, and Jake Tapper is pretending he wasn’t involved in covering up […] -
The Truth About Climate Change and “Green” Energy: C. Michael Hogan, Ph.D.
Podcast -Physicist C. Michael Hogan says the evidence shows that we do not face a climate crisis and that there is no existential threat. Instead, now, as throughout history, a warmer world is improving life. Attempts to fight climate change by forcing wind, solar, and battery power onto the grid are undermining the nation’s electric power […] -
Exposing the Climate Grift – The Climate Realism Show #146
Podcast -Elon Musk's DOGE crew continues to shine a light on how our federal government operates, and it is exposing more climate grift than even the most cynical among us could have imagined. -
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EPA Returning ‘Gold Bars’ to Taxpayers – The Climate Realism Show #145
Podcast -The good news for climate realists and better governance in the Trump administration is piling up so fast it is difficult to keep up. As we covered on this show on December 6, a bit of undercover journalism by Project Veritas exposed a left-wing staffer at the Environmental Protection Agency admitting that he and others […] -
Unleashing American Energy: Restoring Sanity to U.S. Energy Policy
Podcast -Join us as we dive into President Trump’s bold “Unleashing American Energy” executive order—a decisive move to free America’s most valuable resources, from coal and oil to natural gas and nuclear power. In this episode, we contrast this strategic shift with policies favoring costly, unreliable renewable alternatives, and explore how a return to sensible energy […] -
The Trump Effect on the Global Climate Agenda – The Climate Realism Show #144
Podcast -President Trump has struck the Biden administration’s climate and energy policy like a hurricane – from increasing energy exploration and extraction, to letting 1,000 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency know they could be fired at any time, to taking all mentions of climate change from the website of the Department of Agriculture, and more. […] -
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Trump’s Blizzard of Climate and Energy Orders
Podcast -Heartland's Sterling Burnett talks about President Trump withdrawing the US from the Paris Climate Agreement and other executive orders.