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Methane From Fracking: Not the Monster Bill McKibben Sniffs Out
Opinion -Editorial -Methane emissions from hydraulic fracturing operations have become the latest target for activists seeking to ban hydraulic fracturing, commonly called “fracking.” -
New York Attorney General’s Shifting Approach to Climate Pro[er]secution
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #223 -
Democrats Now Want To Preemptively Punish Climate Change Pre-Crimes
Opinion -In the Tom Cruise-starring science-fiction-future-flick “Minority Report”: “A special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes.” These were called “Pre-Crimes.” Objection, Your Honor: Assuming facts not yet in evidence. -
From Fracking to Flatulence: The All-out Assault on Methane
Opinion -What is the “biggest unfinished business for the Obama administration?” -
Much at Steak in EPA’s Latest Beef
Opinion -The recent release of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 600-page methane rule was the latest skirmish in the war on methane, but the next battle will be felt at your supermarket. -
Burnett: Donald Trump a wild card as Dems push high-cost energy
Opinion -Donald Trump’s views on climate change and energy production could hardly be more different than the positions taken by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. -
Climate Change Weekly – Battle of the Wall Street Journal
Opinion -Global warming alarmists are up in arms about the Wall Street Journal publishing a letter from 16 scientists explaining there is “no need to panic about global warming. -
Heartland Institute Experts Comment on EPA’s Methane Rule
Opinion -Press Release -The Environmental Protection Agency today released its new standards to cut methane emissions from both new and existing sources in the oil and gas sector. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to President Obama’s Signing of the Paris Climate Agreement on Earth Day
Opinion -Press Release -President Barack Obama plans to sign the controversial Paris climate agreement today, Earth Day. The nonbinding agreement was drawn up and approved by 196 countries at the U.N. -
Obama Orders Pentagon, Generals and Admirals to Make Climate Change Job One
Opinion -Military triumphs and catastrophes have often hinged on how well (or luckily) armies and navies employed, avoided or benefited from weather and other natural events.Severe storms helped the British navy defeat Spain’s Armada in 1588. -
The Politics Behind the Anti-Fossil Fuels Campaign
Opinion -History shows Earth’s climate goes through cycles, long and short, tied to a variety of natural factors. -
Environmental Madness, Government Corruption Exposed
Opinion -Review of Environmentalism Gone Mad: How a Sierra Club Activist and Senior EPA Analyst Discovered a Radical Green Energy Fantasy, by Alan Carlin (Mt. Vernon, Washington: Stairway Press), 565 pp., ISBN-978-1-941071-13-7, ISBN-978-1-941071-92-2; $24. -
Heartland Institute Experts Respond to EPA’s Proposed Methane Regulations
Opinion -President Barack Obama and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy on Tuesday proposed new rules to regulate methane emission. -
Clean Power Plan Means Death for Coal
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #182 In 2008, then presidential candidate Barack Obama remarked, “If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them. -
Leaving the Church of Environmentalism
Opinion -In March 2009 while the Environmental Protection Agency was rushing to fulfill a presidential campaign pledge to document that carbon dioxide (CO2) and five other greenhouse gases endangered public health and the environment, a longtime employee, Alan -
‘My Scientific Adventure’: Renowned Scientist Willie Soon Talks Climate Change
Opinion -Editor’s Note: Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon, Ph.D., is a geo-scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Soon has written papers in a number of peer-reviewed journals examining the relationship between solar phenomena and global climate. -
Is America Still On F.A. Hayek’s “Road to Serfdom”?
Opinion -A little more than seventy years ago, on March 10, 1944, there appeared in Great Britain one of the most amazing and influential political books of the twentieth century, The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. -
UN Global Poll: Climate Change Is Lowest Priority for Action
Opinion -As the UN-sponsored climate change conference in Lima, Peru drew to a close in mid-December, a poll by the United Nations and associated organizations showed millions of respondents around the world had little interest in action to address climate change. -
German Analysis Finds IPCC “Synthesis” Lacks Facts
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #146 The summary for policymakers released in early November by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has once again betrayed the science found in the body of the report. -
Congressional Testimony of Bernard Weinstein to Subcommittee on Energy and Power
Opinion -[The following is the testimony of Prof. Herbert "Bud" Weinstein to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power. -
Opening Remarks by Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast at the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change
Opinion -LAS VEGAS — Below are the prepared remarks by Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast to open the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change on the evening of July 7, 2014 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.The conference runs from 7:45 p.m. -
Microhabitats Enable Animals to Beat the Heat of Global Warming
Opinion -A new study provides some real-world examples of the phenomenon, finding that “assuming uniform increases of 6°C, microhabitats decreased the vulnerability of communities by up to 32-fold, whereas under non-uniform increases of 0.66 to 3. -
Species Range Shifts in a Warming World
Opinion -It is considerably more complex - and conservative - than models have projected. -
America’s New Energy Abundance Can Revive Our Economy
Opinion -Review of Comeback: America’s New Economic Boom, by Charles R.
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