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  • Heartland Institute Fellows, Policy Advisors React to Final Presidential Debate

    Published October 23, 2012
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    The following statements about Monday night’s final presidential debate from policy experts at The Heartland Institute – a free-market think tank – may be used for attribution.
  • Antarctic Sea Ice Expands to New Record

    Published September 21, 2012
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    Legacy Climate Change Weekly -
    Climate Change Weekly #63Antarctic sea ice set another record this past week, registering the most amount of ice ever recorded on day 256 of the calendar year (September 12 of this leap year).
  • Climatism Is Driven by Money, but Truth Will Prevail

    Published September 8, 2012
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    Review of The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism, by Steve Goreham (New Lenox Books, 2012), 312 pages, ISBN- 978-0982499627There is big money in saving the planet, says author Steve Goreham in his new book, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism.
  • Hurricane Inactivity Defies Alarmists

    Published September 7, 2012
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    Legacy Climate Change Weekly -
    Climate Change Weekly #61When Hurricane Isaac made landfall in southern Louisiana, the storm provided a rare break in one of the longest periods of hurricane inactivity in U.S. history.
  • Minority of Americans Believe in Manmade Global Warming Crisis

    Published August 3, 2012
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    Less than half of Americans believe global warming is occurring and is primarily caused by humans, a newly published Angus Reid public opinion poll reports.
  • Skeptic Magazine Needs to be More Skeptical of Man-Made Global Warming

    Published July 21, 2012
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    A quarterly magazine called Skeptic published a cover story a few weeks back by Donald Prothero titled "How We Know Global Warming is Real and Human-Caused." That struck us here at The Heartland Institute as rather strange.
  • The Tyrannical Agenda of Environmental Activists

    Published July 5, 2012
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    Review of Eco-Tyranny: How the Left’s Green Agenda Will Dismantle America, by Brian Sussman (WND Books, 2012), 315 pages, ISBN- 978-1936488506The United States has more energy resources than Saudi Arabia, but for some strange reason we are not allowed to
  • Michael Mann Presentation Illustrates Flawed Warming Claims

    Published June 29, 2012
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    Legacy Climate Change Weekly -
    Climate Change Weekly #55Climategate central figure Michael Mann gave a talk in Orange County, California last month that perfectly illustrates how global warming alarmists spread myths and misinformation to further their agenda.
  • Michael Mann’s Hissy Fit Shows Why Global Warming Alarmists Fear Debate

    Published June 27, 2012
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    Last month I received a worried telephone call from a government official in California.
  • Heartland Institute Sets Schedule for Seventh International Conference on Climate Change

    Published May 15, 2012
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    Addresses by Vaclav Klaus, Rep.
  • ‘Do You Still Believe in Global Warming?’ Billboards Hit Chicago

    Published May 3, 2012
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    May 3, 2012 – Billboards in Chicago paid for by The Heartland Institute point out that some of the world’s most notorious criminals say they “still believe in global warming” – and ask viewers if they do, too.
  • Polar Sea Ice Reaches Another Milestone

    Published April 27, 2012
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    Legacy Climate Change Weekly -
    Climate Change Weekly #48Polar sea ice reached another milestone this week, with both the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extent meeting or exceeding the 1979–2012 average.
  • Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner Joins Speaker List for Heartland Institute Climate Conference

    Published April 25, 2012
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    Vice-Chairman of House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology to Deliver Plenary AddressThe Heartland Institute is pleased to announce Rep.
  • Former NASA Scientists, Astronauts to Attend Heartland Institute Climate Conference

    Published April 18, 2012
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    Signed Recent Letter Critical of NASA’s ‘Advocacy of an Extreme Position’ on Climate Science Two Apollo-era astronauts and two prominent former NASA scientists will speak at The Heartland Institute’s Seventh International Conference on Climate Change
  • Czech President Vaclav Klaus to Speak at Heartland Institute Climate Conference

    Published April 12, 2012
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    Major event taking place in Chicago immediately following the NATO SummitThe Heartland Institute today announced Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, will be the first dinner speaker at the Seventh International Conference on Climate Change
  • Heartland Institute to Host Seventh International Conference on Climate Change

    Published April 6, 2012
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    Peter Gleick ‘Fakegate’ Scandal, Debateson Latest Climate Science Featured What: Seventh International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-7) Theme: Real Science, Real Choices Where: Hilton Chicago, 720 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL When: Monday, May
  • EPA Shuts down Coal, Blames Global Warming

    Published March 30, 2012
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    Legacy Climate Change Weekly -
    Climate Change Weekly #44The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions that would effectively ban the construction of coal-fired power plants.
  • Fakegate Illustrates Collapsing Global Warming Alarmism

    Published February 24, 2012
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    Legacy Climate Change Weekly -
    Climate Change Weekly #39Why would a prominent scientist/global warming activist commit acts of fraud and theft against global warming skeptics and then send to the media a forged document containing fictitious, over-the-top schemes that would embarrass
  • Heartland Institute Comments on “Fakegate”

    Published February 20, 2012
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    FEBRUARY 20, 2012 - What began as the theft of documents from The Heartland Institute has become a major scandal involving DeSmogBlog, ThinkProgress, and the Huffington Post in which many other figures in the global warming movement are complicit.
  • Peter Gleick Slammed for Attacks on Skeptics

    Published January 13, 2012
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    Legacy Climate Change Weekly -
    Climate Change Weekly #34Global warming activist Peter Gleick is taking a beating for authoring a column in Forbes.
  • Four Pinocchios for WashPost Fact Checker

    Published January 9, 2012
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    The Washington Post Fact Checker gave Rick Perry four Pinocchios for his August 17 denunciation of alarmist global warming science. Here’s what we think.Below is the WashPost Fact Checker’s article—our comments are in bold brackets.
  • Penn State Professor Launches Ethics Attack on Skeptics

    Published January 5, 2012
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    Legacy Climate Change Weekly -
    Climate Change Weekly #33Pennsylvania State University Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics Donald Brown is accusing skeptics of “ethically abhorrent” behavior in the latest in a series of attack papers he is posting on the Penn State University
  • Climate Change Predictions for 2012

    Published December 30, 2011
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    Legacy Climate Change Weekly -
    Climate Change Weekly #32Out with the old and in with the new. Yet it is funny how the new has a tendency to look a lot like the old. Regardless, some things do change, and the year 2011 provided quite a few climate change wrinkles.
  • Global Warming Benefiting Africa’s Sahel Region

    Published December 15, 2011
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    Legacy Climate Change Weekly -
    Climate Change Weekly #31Global warming activists are sounding four-alarm fire bells over a new study claiming global warming is causing drought and killing trees in the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa.