Publications
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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 -
Research & Commentary: Keystone XL Pipeline
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The Keystone XL Project is an approximately 1,661-mile pipeline expansion project that will transport crude oil from Canadian oil sands to U.S. refining markets. -
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. -
Unstoppable Solar Cycles: Rethinking Global Warming
Publication -Books -When Erik the Red first arrived in Greenland, the fertile green land was perfect for farming. But within a few centuries the thriving Viking settlements had been wiped out by global cooling. -
Research & Commentary: Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) of Natural Gas
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Research & Commentary: Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) of Natural GasNew natural gas discoveries in shale rock formations and rapid technological advances to recover the gas have improved the U.S. domestic energy outlook. -
Research & Commentary: Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) of Natural Gas
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Research & Commentary: Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) of Natural GasNew natural gas discoveries in shale rock formations and rapid technological advances to recover the gas have improved the U.S. domestic energy outlook. -
Research & Commentary: The Safety of Nuclear Energy Generation
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan on March 11 caused a series of explosions and fires at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, setting off a storm of media attention and public concern over the safety of nuclear power. -
Research & Commentary: The Price-Anderson Act
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The generation of electricity through nuclear power carries risk. -
Research & Commentary: EPA Guidance on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed guidance for regulating greenhouse gas emissions was released in mid-November and is set to go into effect on January 2, 2011. -
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. -
Global Warming: Nature not Man
Publication -1. Preface Over decades a worldwide movement unparalleled in scope and intensity, has been mobilized to confront the perceived threat of future climate disaster. The asserted threat is that man’s use of energy is forcing the temperature of the Earth to increase, unnaturally. The argument is not about “warming” which has come and gone over […] -
Research & Commentary: Carbon Dioxide Restrictions Will Devastate Environmental Treasures
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Forcing nationwide cuts in carbon dioxide emissions offers only speculative environmental benefits, if any, as a switch to wind and solar power will certainly cause environmental degradation. -
Research & Commentary: President Barack Obama’s Cap-and-Trade Plan
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The Obama administration, with support from the majority party in Congress, is promoting a carbon emissions cap-and-trade plan that could spell disaster for the nation—especially given the current delicate state of the U.S. economy. -
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. -
Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable?
Publication -Books -The stakes in the debate over global warming are high. If human activities are causing a major warming of the earth’s atmosphere, then actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions costing hundreds of billions of dollars would be necessary. -
Climate Change in the Classroom Education or Indoctrination? Part 2: Scientific Critiques of Global Warming Alarmism
Publication -Research and Commentaries -This Research & Commentary collection contains three articles that provide scientific critiques of the global warming alarmism that appears in Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth. -
Testimony on the Future of Nuclear Power
Publication -Testimony -‘It is now completely absurd that the minds of so many remain poisoned against the cheapest, most abundant and safest form of energy on the planet.’ -- Dr. Jay Lehr, Science Director, The Heartland Institute -
Ten Principles of Energy Policy
Publication -Legislative Principles -Why do we need principles of energy policy? -
Climate Change in the Classroom Education or Indoctrination? Part 1: Why Al Gore Doesn’t Belong in the Classroom
Publication -Research and Commentaries -This collection of eight articles and reports on Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth” -
No. 111 – What Climate Scientists Really Say about Global Warming
Publication -Policy Studies -The Heartland Institute has released a study challenging assertions that climate scientists have come to a consensus about global warming. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic Analysis (ppt)
Publication -Policy Studies -Download PowerPoint presentation Presentation to the Pennsylvania House Committee on Environmental Resources and Energy. -
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.
