Environment and Climate News Podcast
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Climate Change Policies, Killing the American Dream
Podcast -Climate change policy is often framed as a challenge to personal freedoms and choices, especially when policies seem to impose strict limits on individuals’ lifestyles and economic options. For example, regulations that mandate renewable energy or limit fossil fuel use can feel like a direct restriction on the American dream—the idea that with hard work, […] -
Rhetoric and Reality – The Politics of Climate Change
Podcast -The whole world seems to be nervously awaiting the outcome of the presidential election, which is just 10 days away — perhaps no group more than the global climate cabal. Climate and energy policy is a topic barely mentioned on the campaign trail, and in the debates. But voters are going to decide in November […] -
Climate Alarmist Education – The Climate Realism Show #131
Podcast -What is driving the push for shoving climate alarmism into every academic subject under the sun? -
Breaking Down Hurricane Milton – The Climate Realism Show #130
Podcast -After a slow start to the 2024 Hurricane Season, it seems like Mother Nature wants to make up for lost time. -
Talking Hurricane Milton and Common Climate Myths on the Shaun Thompson Show
Podcast -This week, Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Anthony Watts was a guest on the Shaun Thompson Show on AM 560 the Answer in Chicago. He was asked on the program to talk about Hurricane Milton approaching the Florida Gulf Coast and what Shaun calls the “climate grift.” Anthony debunks a lot of climate myths in just […] -
The Aftermath and Myths of Hurricane Helene
Podcast -Hurricane Helene will go down as one of the most-significant natural disasters (so far) in US History, and certainly of the 21st century. While the Florida panhandle was walloped when it made landfall, the storm did most of its shocking damage far from shore in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. […] -
It’s Climate Week in NYC – The Climate Realism Show #128
Podcast -It’s climate week in New York City, yet another expensive and carbon-intensive gathering of global chicken littles clucking about the end of the world. More than 6,000 attendees from more than 100 countries converged on the Big Apple to coincide with the United Nations General Assembly Meeting, all the better to coordinate efforts to stop climate change by taking your freedom and money. -
Trump Looms Over COP 29 – The Climate Realism Show #127
Podcast -The United Nations’ climate confab (COP 29) in Azerbaijan, of all places, will convene less than a week after America’s presidential election. It will be pretty glum gathering if Donald Trump returns to the White House. The jet-setting climate bureaucrats may be putting on a brave face claiming that “global climate action” isn’t dependent on […] -
Debate Prep for Trump on Climate
Podcast -Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will have their first and probably only debate on Tuesday. Climate is likely to come up as a debate topic, after not being emphasized for a while. How should Trump handle this topic? We have some tips for him to win “bigly” on climate and energy policy. On The Heartland […] -
Mourning Real Environmentalism – The Climate Realism Show #125 (Guest: Matt Wielicki)
Podcast -One could pin the birth of the modern environmental movement to the early 20th century when Theodore Roosevelt’s love of nature led to the creation of America’s beautiful national parks, the preservation of land for future generations, and the beginning of a genuine effort to clean our land, water, and air. That agenda, which enjoyed […] -
Hurricane Season 2024: Were the predictions wrong again?
Podcast -NOAA and other forecasters predicted the 2024 hurricane season would be among the most active in decades. Professional climate alarmist Michael Mann said human-caused global warming would prime the Atlantic Ocean to produce 33 named storms and several major hurricanes to lash the United States. The media, of course, jumped on that to sell gloom […] -
We’re NOT at a Climate Tipping Point – The Climate Realism Show #123
Podcast -The New York Times on Sunday published a special section titled “How Close Are the Planet’s Climate Tipping Points?” The article is heavy on fancy infographics and short on actual references or facts about how many of the Earth’s natural features may be “in danger of collapse.” We will break it down and debunk the […] -
The Real Costs of Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Podcast -Heartland’s H. Sterling Burnett was recently a guest on the Jeanne Ives Podcast. They discussed the recent announcement by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, who touted another “win” as United Airlines committed to purchasing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for O’Hare International Airport, using state tax credits. Burnett questioned the environmental and economic validity of SAF, […] -
The Great British Energy Company – The Climate Realism Show #122
Podcast -The new Labour government in the UK wants to set up the “Great British Energy Company,” supposedly the answer to all of that country’s green energy dreams. -
Debunking Climate Myths
Podcast -Heartland’s H. Sterling Burnett was a guest on the Point of View Podcast. They discussed the accuracy of temperature measurements and the role of urban heat islands, the historical context of climate cycles, and the impact of human activity on global warming. Burnett also challenges predictions about climate disasters and highlights the benefits of increased […] -
‘Green’ Olympics Make Athletes See Red – The Climate Realism Show #121
Podcast -The 2024 Paris Olympics are underway, and it pledged to be the “greenest” games ever. It not only failed, it pissed off many of the athletes. -
Kamala Harris Is Even More Radical on Climate than Joe Biden
Podcast -With Joe Biden handing off the presidency to “a new generation” in Kamala Harris, her record and public statements shows she is even more radical on environment and energy policies than her old boss. For instance, Harris thoroughly endorsed every bit of the radical “Green New Deal,” she pledged to ban all fracking in the […] -
DEI Is Destroying Our Way of Life
Podcast -Climate change is a topic the Globalists have chosen to exploit by teaching junk science brought to us by computer models. -
Climate Policy at the GOP Convention: What a Second Trump Term Could Look Like
Podcast -As the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee comes to a close, we look at the climate and energy platform of the party. Do they differ from Trump’s first-term agenda? What is the stance of VP candidate J.D. Vance on the topic considering Trump has tapped Vance to carry his MAGA agenda forward? To talk about […] -
Climate Lawfare Heats Up
Podcast -The weather is heating up, and so is the "climate lawfare" radicals are using to impose draconian policies that would impoverish the masses, and even put some people in jail. -
10 Questions Climate Doomers Can’t or Won’t Answer
Podcast -Have you ever noticed that when it comes to inconvenient hard facts, climate alarmists either revert to calling you a shill for big oil, or block you because they don’t have the skills or the knowledge to refute your factual challenge? Well, we’ve got a list of 10 very inconvenient questions that they refuse to […] -
Climate Alarmist Messaging Decoded: Lies Work
Podcast -A very telling exposé of a meeting between leading "climate communicators" appeared on Twitter last week. -
Heatwave Alarm Season is Here, Same Old Climate Claims, Different Year – The Climate Realism Show #114
Podcast -Yes, it’s that time again kids, panic the American people over heat waves by blaming them on climate change. -
Creation of “Chief Heat Officers” in Arizona
Podcast -Phoenix is hiring a “Chief Heat Officer,” in response to rising heat related deaths, which the city blames on climate change. The truth is most of those dying are homeless or drug addicts with underlying health conditions, people already in poor health. As far as Phoenix’s heat, that is due, not to climate change but […]