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Climate Change Weekly # 536 — Budget-Busting Climate Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act Must Go
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
Trump Truth Bombs ‘Green’ Energy (Five EOs)
Opinion -On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed five wide-ranging executive orders that radically change United States energy and climate policy. -
Climate Change Weekly #531 – Suggestions for the New Executive Agency Heads
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. -
Climate Change Weekly #530 – Are Net Zero’s Days Numbered?—Heartland Comes to Europe
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. -
Research & Commentary: Two New Reports Mirror EPA Findings of Significant Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions from the Oil and Gas Industry
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Two reports from oil and gas industry groups released in November detail the voluntary greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction efforts led by the industry and highlight the progress being made on that front. The annual progress report of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), a coalition of 12 of the world’s largest oil and […] -
Research & Commentary: New EPA Data Show 44 Percent Drop in Methane Emissions to Go Along with Record Oil and Gas Production
Publication -Research and Commentaries -New data released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows that methane emissions at the nation’s largest oil and gas-producing basins are continuing to fall significantly, even with record-setting production. EPA has made available the 2023 data from its Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), a program requiring the reporting of “greenhouse gas (GHG) data […] -
Climate Change Weekly #519: Climate Negotiations on Hold, Pending U.S. Elections
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -No matter how big China’s economy has become, the United States is still the straw that stirs the drink on climate policy. -
Research & Commentary: New Report Shows Great Lakes States Could See Electricity Generation Shortfalls by 2027 Thanks to “Net Zero” Energy Plans
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A new report from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy details how “net zero” plans are threatening energy reliability for seven states in the Great Lakes region—Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. “Net zero” refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere and the amount removed from […] -
Research & Commentary: Report Shows Oil & Gas Industries’ Emissions Continue to Fall as Production Increases
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The recently released annual report from The Environmental Partnership (TEP), a voluntary collective of oil and gas companies “committed to continuously improving the industry’s environmental performance,” details the serious progress the industry has made in emissions reductions, especially in reducing flare intensity. TEP describes its mission as “to continuously improve the industry’s environmental performance by […] -
Climate Change Weekly #516: Hunga Tonga Eruption Behind “Record” Warming
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -I and other Heartland Institute scholars have written before about the bird, bat, and marine mammals that industrial wind is killing around the world. -
Climate Change Weekly #514: 🦇 Evidence Mounts that Green Tech Is Wiping Out Species 🐦
Opinion -I and other Heartland Institute scholars have written before about the bird, bat, and marine mammals that industrial wind is killing around the world. -
Climate Change Weekly #502: Climate Change Is Not Causing Inflation
Opinion -Climate change is not causing inflation. It can’t, because inflation is a product of monetary and fiscal policy, which climate has no control over. -
Climate Change Weekly #496: Proposed Climate Reporting Rule Is Foolish and Outside of SEC’s Mission, Study Shows
Opinion -The SEC's proposed climate accounting and disclosure rules fall well outside its legal mission to protect investors from fraud and the markets from insider trading and manipulation. -
The AI Revolution Is Bad News for Net Zero
Opinion -Total data center power requirements will increase by at least a factor of six and maybe by as much as 10 times by 2029. Greenhouse gas emissions from AI data centers will increase by similar amount. -
Insane Crackdown on Farming and Cow Farts
Opinion -What little climate change is taking place is definitely not the result of farming and cows. -
Climate Change Weekly #462: Green Technologies Are Dangerous, Not Ready for Prime Time
Opinion -With the recent spate of articles discussing fires caused by EV batteries and atop wind turbines, it seems the mainstream media is only now catching on to what we at The Heartland Institute, the airlines, and actual green technology users have long reported: green tech can be dangerous. -
Climate Change Weekly #457: Coalition Provides 2022 Climate Fact Check
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate alarmists and their media allies once again made a slew of claims about natural disasters being caused by man-made emissions in 2022. And once again, these claims clashed with reality and science. -
Politically Connected Piggies at the Trough for ‘Inflation’ Bill
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #443 -
Woke Investing Gets Well-Deserved Pushback
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #436 -
Be Grateful for Global Warming
Opinion -Editorial -Human and climate history reveal that we should welcome the warmth and fear the cold, quite the opposite of the story the Climate Industrial Complex peddles. -
Biden’s $3.5 Trillion “Make Big Government Even Bigger” Plan
Opinion -Editorial -President Biden's Build Back Better Plan will only serve to build up government power over its citizens to an even greater degree. -
Climate Targets Are Built on Magical Thinking, Not Reality
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #412 -
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Masks, and the Deadly Falsehoods Surrounding Them
Opinion -Editorial -Unsurprisingly, the use of face masks for COVID-19 mitigation has little basis in scientific evidence, and can cause a host of deleterious health problems. -
IPCC Report Shows Desperation, Not Climate Catastrophe
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #408
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