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Climate Change Weekly #520: The Rich Really Are Different When Carbon Footprints Are Calculated
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -The great actual disparity in personal carbon footprints, however, is not accurately reflected in people’s perceptions about their personal and their economic class’s relative contributions of human CO2 to the atmosphere. -
Climate Change Weekly #519: Climate Negotiations on Hold, Pending U.S. Elections
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -No matter how big China’s economy has become, the United States is still the straw that stirs the drink on climate policy. -
Climate Change Weekly #518: The High Cost of the Biden/Harris IRA Climate Rules
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -IN THIS ISSUE: The High Cost of the Biden/Harris IRA Climate Rules The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed on August 16, 2022, contained billions of dollars in spending on green energy initiatives intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to fight climate change. A new analysis of the literature by Tim Benson of The […] -
Climate Change Weekly #468: Fact-Checking Fact-Deprived Fact Checkers
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A funny thing happened on the way to Agence France-Presse’s (AFP) fact check of The Heartland Institute’s Climate at a Glance (CAAG) booklet for teachers and students. They forgot to check any facts. -
Climate Change Weekly #466: New IPCC Report Suggests the Organization May Be Obsolete
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -The main takeaway from the IPCC’s 85-page lament is that we are soon to surpass the dreaded 1.5℃ temperature rise which climate scolds claim will spell doom for the planet. -
Climate Change Weekly #465: [Fill in the Blank Climate Crisis] Season Is Here
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -For the past two decades, every year as winter wanes and spring springs, the media has engaged in its contemporary rite of spring: climate fear. -
Climate Change Weekly #464: Slavery and Child Labor at the Core of Elites’ Green Energy Obsession
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -The much touted green energy economy and the net zero goals it aims to obtain are built upon a dirty little secret: slavery, child labor, and environmental destruction. -
Climate Change Weekly #463: Net Zero: Scientifically Unjustified and Deadly
Opinion -Net Zero—the global movement to eliminate fossil fuels and their emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases—is scientifically invalid and a threat to the lives of billions of people. -
Climate Change Weekly #462: Green Technologies Are Dangerous, Not Ready for Prime Time
Opinion -With the recent spate of articles discussing fires caused by EV batteries and atop wind turbines, it seems the mainstream media is only now catching on to what we at The Heartland Institute, the airlines, and actual green technology users have long reported: green tech can be dangerous. -
Climate Change Weekly #461: Answering the Climate Inquisition
Opinion -Among the most-offensive labels the Climate Inquisition calls climate realists is the term “climate denier.” -
Climate Change Weekly #460: Biden Offshoring Pollution, Environmental Injustice
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -The threat to whales is hardly the only problem with Biden’s plan, as proven by an analysis of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project. -
Climate Change Weekly #459: Remembering Jay Lehr – Scholar, Truth Seeker, Friend, Eternal Optimist
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -With his workload, it is hard to fathom how Jay found time to pursue so many extracurricular passions, but he did. -
Climate Change Weekly #458: Bad Climate Assumptions, Worse Climate Predictions
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -IN THIS ISSUE: Bad Climate Assumptions, Worse Climate Predictions “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” So begins Elizabeth Barret Browning’s famous Sonnet 43. What does that have to do with climate change, you ask? Browning’s poem has parallels to our understanding of the myriad physical mechanisms that drive climate change. “What […] -
Climate Change Weekly #457: Coalition Provides 2022 Climate Fact Check
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate alarmists and their media allies once again made a slew of claims about natural disasters being caused by man-made emissions in 2022. And once again, these claims clashed with reality and science.