Publications
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Research & Commentary: Extreme Weather
Publication -Research and Commentaries -For more than two decades the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has supported the model-based narrative that carbon dioxide (CO2)-induced global warming will cause (or is already causing) more extreme weather, including -
Research & Commentary: The Cryosphere
Publication -Research and Commentaries -One of the most common claims made by those who warn of an anthropogenic global warming crisis is that increases in temperature have led to unusual melting in mountain glaciers, Arctic sea ice, and polar icecaps. -
Research & Commentary: The Hydrosphere and Oceans
Publication -Research and Commentaries -People concerned that manmade greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon dioxide (CO2), may be causing dangerous climate change worry such a change may disrupt the hydrosphere, which comprises all of the water on Earth and in its atmosphere. -
Scientific Critique of IPCC’s 2013 ‘Summary for Policymakers’
Publication -Policy Briefs -The Summary for Policymakers released in September by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is filled with concessions that its past predictions were too extreme and misleading and unscientific language, according to a team of -
Research & Commentary: Solar Forcing of Climate
Publication -Research and Commentaries -In its series of assessment reports reviewing the latest climate science, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded solar forcings (the changes in the average amount of solar energy absorbed per square meter of -
Research & Commentary: Temperature Observations
Publication -Research and Commentaries -One of the central premises behind the concern that manmade greenhouse gas emissions may be causing dangerous global warming is that global temperatures have increased over the last century in concert with human carbon-dioxide production. -
Research & Commentary: Forcings and Feedbacks
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Many scientists, policymakers, and engaged citizens have become concerned over the possibility that manmade greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon dioxide (CO2), may be causing dangerous climate change. -
Research & Commentary: Global Climate Models and Their Limitations
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Many scientists, policymakers, and engaged citizens have become concerned over the possibility that manmade greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon dioxide (CO2), may be causing dangerous climate change. -
Research & Commentary: Social Cost of Carbon
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The Obama administration recently increased the federal government’s estimated social costs for carbon emissions. -
Statement to the Environment and Public Works Committee of the United States Senate
Publication -Testimony -Dr. Roy Spencer's testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hosted by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California). -
Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. Hearing on Climate Change: It’s Happening Now
Publication -Testimony -To the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the United States Senate Hearing on Climate Change (July 18, 2013), Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. -
Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. Hearing on Climate Change: It’s Happening Now
Publication -Testimony -To the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the United States Senate Hearing on Climate Change (July 18, 2013), Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. -
Tip Sheet: Climatism
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -ProblemFor the past decade, billions of dollars have been spent in an effort to fight climate change. First, taxpayers subsidize green policies. The production tax credit for wind energy will cost more than $12 billion the year alone. -
Chinese Translation of Climate Change Reconsidered
Publication -Books -A workshop on climate change issues was held in Beijing on June 15, 2013, at which four of the authors presented their findings to members of the Chinese climate science community. -
Pricewaterhouse Coopers’ ‘Too Late’ Report: Poor Science, No Practical Solutions
Publication -Policy Briefs -A new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), titled Too Late for Two Degrees? -
Research & Commentary: Carbon Tax Swaps
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Carbon taxes have regained traction with several prominent Republican lawmakers and political leaders publicly voicing support for a “revenue-neutral” carbon tax in exchange for tax cuts on capital or investments. -
Research & Commentary: Sea-Level Rise in North Carolina
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The North Carolina House is considering a bill that would reassess how state agencies extrapolate data on future rates of sea-level rise affecting coastal communities. -
Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report
Publication -Books -The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), already under severe criticism for violating the requirements of academic peer review and relying on secondary sources, comes under attack again in a new report co-produced by three -
You Call This Consensus?
Publication -Policy Briefs -Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast writes a 2011 paper examining the common sound bites surrounding the idea that there is a scientific "consensus" surrounding the idea that humans are the primary cause of catastrophic climate change. -
Analysis: New International Survey of Climate Scientists
Publication -Policy Briefs -In a September 2010 Heartland Institute Policy Brief, Heartland President Joseph Bast examines an international survey of climate scientists conducted by German scientists Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch, and finds scientific opinion to be deeply divided. -
The Economic Impact of Regulating U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under the Clean Air Act
Publication -Policy Studies -The imposition of greenhouse gas permitting requirements on stationary sources will negatively impact U.S. investment, job growth and economic competitiveness during the next several years and beyond. -
Saving Science after ClimateGate
Publication -Policy Briefs -Billions of dollars are being spent each year on publicly funded scientific research in the U.S. -
Climate Change Reconsidered
Publication -Books -This 880-page rebuttal of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), three years in the making, was released in June 2009 by The Heartland Institute. Coauthored and edited by S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. -
No. 102 – Greenhouse Gas Control: Implications for Agriculture
Publication -Policy Studies -Legislation is being considered at the federal and state levels to slow the onset or ameliorate the effects of global warming.