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  • Exposing the Global Warming Fraud

    Published July 2, 2013
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    Last week President Obama announced a far-reaching plan to require reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, mandate increased vehicle mileage, and authorize more subsidies for solar and wind power.

  • Plant Life Prospers: Alarmists Complain about Pollen

    Published July 1, 2013
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    Global warming is delivering multi-faceted benefits to plant life yet global warming alarmists are doing their best to make the worst of the situation.

  • Party Time for Corporations Who Love the Regulatory Favoritism Game

    Published July 1, 2013
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    President Obama’s speech last week that re-emphasized his commitment to reduce US carbon dioxide emissions brought dismay to those who appreciate affordable energy, but it sparked a celebration among corporate types who have long sought caps and taxes

  • Obama’s Climate Action Plan: Emphasize What Won’t Work; Penalize What Works

    Published July 1, 2013
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    For months President Obama has been in the uncomfortable position of straddling a barbed-wire fence—does he appease his ardent environmental supporters or advocate for economic growth that will help all of America?

  • Court Rules Indiana Ethanol Plants Exceeded Pollution Limits

    Published June 28, 2013
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    Two ethanol plants in Indiana violated federal pollution limits, an Indiana appellate court ruled.

  • Climate Scientist Christy Presents Data Showing No Crisis

    Published June 28, 2013
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    Climate Change Weekly #96Climate scientist John Christy presented a series of charts and data at a global warming conference showing warming is proceeding at a modest pace and not causing significant harm.

  • President Obama’s Climate Initiative—The Bad News and Good News

    Published June 27, 2013
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    In his speech at Georgetown University on Tuesday, President Obama announced, “So today…I’m directing the Environmental Protection Agency to put an end to the limitless dumping of carbon pollution from our power plants and complete new pollution

  • Obama’s Words on Carbon Dioxide, Drilling Contradict His Actions

    Published June 27, 2013
    By Paul Chesser
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    In his much-hyped speech Tuesday, President Obama promised executive action – including greater regulations on the coal industry and approval of the Keystone Pipeline only if its “net effect on our climate” is not significant – to reduce the emissions of

  • Minnesota Implements Solar Power Mandate

    Published June 27, 2013
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    Minnesota residents will have to purchase 1.5 percent of their electricity from expensive solar power under legislation signed by Gov. Mark Dayton.

  • Heartland Institute Statement on Chinese Edition of ‘Climate Change Reconsidered’

    Published June 27, 2013
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    (June 27, 2013) -- A division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has translated and published a Chinese edition of Climate Change Reconsidered, one of The Heartland Institute’s many publications on the topic of global warming.

  • Obama’s Climate Plan: A Costly Solution Looking for a Problem

    Published June 26, 2013
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    President Barack Obama yesterday announced a new effort to impose harsh restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions. President Obama claimed the restrictions are necessary to address global warming.

  • Obama, not ‘Skeptics,’ Serve as President of the ‘Flat-Earth Society’

    Published June 26, 2013
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    I’m loath to even write about President Obama’s banal speech yesterday on his climate change/energy agenda — to be executed via fiat, of course, and not through a Constitutional legislative process he finds so frustrating.

  • Cooling Looms As Earth’s True Climate Calamity

    Published June 26, 2013
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    Although we have been enmeshed in a long debate over global warming and climate change, this controversy has been politically motivated, not a response to actual global warming, as there has been no warming for 16 years.

  • Modeling Climate Feedbacks Based on Short-Term Climate Variations

    Published June 26, 2013
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    What does the process reveal about the current status of the climate-modeling enterprise? That in the case of cloud feedback, it is difficult to come to “any firm conclusion” ... even on the sign of the feedback...

  • Obama’s Climate Obsession

    Published June 26, 2013
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    The bond market suffered a mini-crash following President Obama’s ill-considered words all but firing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke during a television interview with Charlie Rose.Unemployment has been stuck over 7.

  • Climate Alarmism’s 10,000 Commandments

    Published June 26, 2013
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    The United States will “do more,” before it’s “too late” to prevent “dangerous” global warming, President Obama told Berliners last week.

  • What Consists of Well-Being? The Non-Study Study

    Published June 26, 2013
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    The Social Science Research Center has posted a lengthy report on what consists of good human development & well-being (read happiness) in the states.

  • Michigan Governor Seeks to Raise Renewable Energy Mandate

    Published June 25, 2013
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    Michigan Governor Rick Snyder announced he wants to increase the state’s renewable energy mandate, a 2008 law that requires utilities to produce at least 10 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2015.

  • Heartland Institute Experts React to Obama’s Climate Change Speech

    Published June 25, 2013
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    President Barack Obama today delivered a speech laying out his energy and environment agenda for his second term – a plan that includes tighter regulations on power plants, mandates to increase vehicle mileage, and increased subsidies for solar and wind

  • IPCC Lead Author Says Climate Models Are Failing

    Published June 24, 2013
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    United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author Hans von Storch told Der Spiegel that climate models are having a difficult time replicating the lack of global warming during the past 15 years.

  • Greedy Africans are Starving Our Cars

    Published June 24, 2013
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    “You’ve heard of Live Aid? Well, this is Drive Aid,” an ardent young man says, as he approaches London pedestrians. “Greedy people in developing nations are eating huge amounts of food that could easily be turned into biofuel to power our cars.

  • Global Warming Prevented Several Recent Weather Disasters

    Published June 24, 2013
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    Global warming may have prevented several deadly weather disasters from striking the United States during the past year, according to an analysis conducted by climate scientist Chip Knappenberger.

  • Inglis Puts Stringent Conditions on Support for Carbon Tax

    Published June 21, 2013
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    Climate Change Weekly #95Former Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC), the most prominent advocate for a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, placed several important conditions on his support for a carbon tax during a debate in Washington, DC.

  • The Effect of Elevated CO2 on Tomato Plant Lateral Root Growth

    Published June 21, 2013
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    Elevated CO2 increased both the number and length of the roots, and with more and longer lateral roots in a future CO2-enriched atmosphere, tomato plants (and likely other plants as well) should be better equipped to take up both major and micro

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