Publications
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Research & Commentary: A Summary of the Impacts of Industrial Silica Sand (Frac Sand) Mining
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Isaac Orr, research fellow at The Heartland Institute, and Mark Krumenacher, senior principal and senior vice president of GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. -
Research & Commentary: Washington State Carbon Tax
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A ballot measure currently being considered by the Washington State Legislature could make the state the first in the nation to impose a direct tax on carbon dioxide emitted from fossil fuels. -
Research & Commentary: Oregon Cap-and-Trade Proposals and Renewable Power Mandates
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Legislators in Oregon are now proposing a new carbon dioxide cap-and-trade program. The legislature rejected a proposed cap-and-trade plan in 2015. -
Testimony of John R. Christy Addressing NOAA’s recent temperature claims
Publication -Testimony -This testimony by Dr. John R. Christy, delivered on February 2, 2016, before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, is a fascinating overview of the latest real science regarding climate change. Dr. -
Research & Commentary: Idaho Lawmakers’ Doubts About the Climate ‘Consensus’
Publication -Research and Commentaries -On January 2, the Twin Falls Times-News released a highly deceptive story, “At Idaho Legislature, Many Doubt Scientific Consensus on Global Warming Cause,” containing many dubious assertions about the debate between scientists over the effects of climate -
Research & Commentary: COP21 and the Paris Climate Agreement
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The Paris climate agreement, adopted on December 12 by 195 nations attending the United Nations’ 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21), was called a “turning point for the world” by President Obama and “the best chance to save the one planet that we’ve -
Top 10 Global Warming Lies
Publication -Policy Briefs -It's not unusual for the environmental Left to make false assertions to attract media attention and raise money. But a recent mailer from the Environmental Defense Fund “may have set a new low,” writes Heartland Institute Senior Fellow James M. -
Economic Impacts of Industrial Silica Sand (Frac Sand) Mining
Publication -Policy Studies -Second in a series#137 (May 2015) Environmental Impacs of Industrial Silica Sand (Frac Sand) MiningHydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production has dramatically increased the demand for industrial silica sand, known as “frac sand,” available -
Merchants of Smear
Publication -Policy Briefs -For about two decades we’ve been told the science behind human-caused global warming is settled, and to ignore skeptic scientists because they’ve been paid by industry to manufacture doubt about the issue. -
Statement to the Environment and Public Works Committee of the United States Senate
Publication -Testimony -On June 3, 2014, Climatologist David Legates testified before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on the subject of climate change. -
Research & Commentary: The Myth of a Global Warming Consensus
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Many legislators are told they must enact climate change legislation because an alleged “scientific consensus” holds that man-made climate change requires urgent action. -
Research & Commentary: What the Australian Carbon Tax Means for the United States
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Anti-fossil-fuel activists have long advocated federal and state governments should impose carbon taxes. -
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts
Publication -Books -The newest volume in the Climate Change Reconsidered series, released on April 9, is Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts. One more volume in the CCR-II series, subtitled Human Welfare, Energy, and Policies, is due out in June. -
Research & Commentary: State Carbon Taxes
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Legislators in many states have blamed high-profile regional weather events on anthropogenic global warming and are proposing carbon taxes as a way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and thereby—they hope—to mitigate severe weather. -
Climate Change, Energy Policy, and National Power
Publication -Policy Briefs -Global warming alarmism threatens U.S. national power and national security, say Admiral Thomas B. Hayward, Vice Admiral Edward S. Briggs, and Captain Donald K. Forbes. -
Testimony of James Taylor – Kansas House Standing Committee on Energy and Environment
Publication -Testimony -Senior Fellow James Taylor's written testimony submitted on February 13, 2014 to the Kansas House Energy & Environment committee on a resolution to oppose the Presiden't Climate Action Plan. -
The Other Side of the Global Warming Story
Publication -Testimony -Dr. Jay Lehr, science director of The Heartland Institute and one of the authors of the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, delivered the testimony below to the Washington State Senate in January, 2014. -
AMS Survey Shows No Consensus on Global Warming
Publication -Policy Briefs -In a November 2013 Heartland Institute Policy Brief, Heartland President Joseph Bast examines an American Meteorological Survey of its members which found only 39.5% of those who responded say they believe man-made global warming is dangerous. -
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: 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
