Publications
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Research & Commentary: The Limitations of Solar Power
Publication -Research and Commentaries -For more than a century, mankind has sought ways to convert the sun’s heat and light into electricity. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, enough energy from the sun hits Earth every hour to power the planet for an entire year. -
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 Leaflet – Wireless Taxes for Water Skiing
Publication -The Leaflet -Wireless Taxes for Water Skiing For years state wireless and cell phone taxes have grown steadily without raising any significant alarm. This is surprising given that wireless taxes in many states are up to three times higher than the state sales tax. -
Research & Commentary: Net Metering
Publication -Research and Commentaries -In 43 states and the District of Columbia, utility customers who purchase their own generation source (also called distributed generation, most often a rooftop solar panel) can sell any excess electricity they produce to a utility for resale to other -
Testimony of James Taylor – Washington State Senate Energy, Environment & Telecommunications Committee
Publication -Testimony -Heartland Senior Fellow for Environment Policy James Taylor testifies before the Washington Senate Energy, Environment, and Telecommunication committee during a January 2014 work session to discuss solar power. -
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. -
Research & Commentary: Pennsylvania Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Pennsylvania state Rep. Tommy Sankey has introduced a proposal that would repeal the state’s alternative energy portfolio standard (AEPS), which mandates utilities obtain a specified percentage of their power from renewable sources by a certain date. -
Tip Sheet: Hydraulic Fracturing
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -ProblemHydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a decades-old well stimulation technique that recently has been combined with horizontal drilling and computer-assisted underground monitoring to make extracting from vast reserves of oil and natural gas more -
Research & Commentary: E15 and Ohio
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Ohio currently does not require gasoline be blended with renewable fuel, but ethanol is still frequently blended with the state’s motor gasoline in compliance with the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which mandates 36 billion gallons of renewable -
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. -
Hydraulic Fracturing a Game-Changer for U.S. Energy and Economies
Publication -Policy Studies -Vast reserves of oil and natural gas have been known to exist in shale formations throughout the United States for decades, but extracting these resources was not economically viable until the advent of “smart drilling” technology – the combination of -
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. -
Tip Sheet: Ohio Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -ProblemOhio is ranked 23rd highest in electricity prices.1 Although this is due to many reasons, a big reason is the state’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS), signed into law in May 2008. -
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 -
Tip Sheet: Ohio Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -ProblemOhio is ranked 23rd highest in electricity prices.1 Although this is due to many reasons, a big reason is the state’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS), signed into law in May 2008. -
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: Pennsylvania Plastic Bag Tax
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Under a proposal by state Sen. Daylin Leach (D-Wayne), Pennsylvania would become the first state to impose a statewide tax on the use of plastic bags. -
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: Coal Power
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Coal, a black or brownish rock made from highly compressed plants that lived and died hundreds of millions of years ago, is the most plentiful fossil fuel in current use.
