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  • Climate Change Predictions for 2012

    Published December 30, 2011
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    Climate Change Weekly #32Out with the old and in with the new. Yet it is funny how the new has a tendency to look a lot like the old. Regardless, some things do change, and the year 2011 provided quite a few climate change wrinkles.
  • Global Warming Benefiting Africa’s Sahel Region

    Published December 15, 2011
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    Climate Change Weekly #31Global warming activists are sounding four-alarm fire bells over a new study claiming global warming is causing drought and killing trees in the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Durban Climate Talks Follow Predictable Path

    Published December 9, 2011
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    Climate Change Weekly #30United Nations global climate talks in Durban, South Africa took a predictable path this week with the European Union and many Third World nations pushing for legally enforceable restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions while
  • The Leaflet – The Amazon tax goes to Congress

    Published December 1, 2011
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    I hope everyone had a fun- and food-filled Thanksgiving! This week, I and a few other Heartland staffers are attending the American Legislative Exchange Council’s State’s and Nation’s Policy Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona.
  • Bombshell Book Documents IPCC Misconduct

    Published October 20, 2011
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    Climate Change Weekly #24Journalist Donna Laframboise has published a new book, The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert: An Expose of the IPCC, that blows the lid off of misconduct within the United Nations
  • Mosquitoes Not Listening to Gore

    Published October 7, 2011
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    Climate Change Weekly #23Global warming is often predicted to cause a devastating increase in the range and frequency of malaria, but somebody forgot to tell the malarial mosquitoes.
  • Heartland Replies to ‘Nature’

    Published July 28, 2011
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    Nature, the well-known British science journal, has a feature story and an unsigned editorial in its latest issue addressing The Heartland Institute’s contribution to the global debate over climate change.
  • Judge Orders Release of Climate Research Documents

    Published June 13, 2011
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    The Prince William Circuit Court in the state of Virginia has ordered the University of Virginia (U.VA.) to publicly disclose climate research-related documents produced by former U.VA. Professor Michael Mann.
  • MEDIA ADVISORY: Sen. James Inhofe to Kick Off Heartland Institute’s 6th Climate Conference in DC

    Published June 9, 2011
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    WHAT: Sixth International Conference on Climate ChangeWHERE: Marriott Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DCWHEN: June 30 and July 1, 2011Sen.
  • Media Advisory: Heartland Institute to Host 6th International Conference on Climate Change in Washington

    Published April 28, 2011
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    What: Sixth International Conference on Climate ChangeWhere: Marriott Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DCWhen: June 30 and July 1, 2011The Heartland Institute will host its sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-6) on June
  • Alarmist Mann Sues over Humorous Insult

    Published April 11, 2011
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    Controversial global warming alarmist Michael Mann, a Pennsylvania State University professor and one of the central figures in the Climategate scandal, is suing prominent skeptic Timothy Ball for making a joke about Mann’s alleged misconduct.
  • Global Warming in 2010: The Heat Came from Politics, Not Mother Nature

    Published January 3, 2011
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    It’s time to review the year’s happenings in the hurly-burly world of global warming. But before we go further, readers should know that global warming has morphed again.
  • French Academy Lays a Warming Egg

    Published November 27, 2010
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    The august French Academy has spoken: After a cursory examination of the issue, a single day of selected testimonies, and some internal discussion among admitted non-experts, their Oct. 28 report concluded global warming is “real and anthropogenic.
  • Heartland Institute Comments on the Post-2010 Midterms Policy Landscape

    Published November 3, 2010
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    The Heartland Institute is a 26-year-old national nonprofit research and education organization based in Chicago. Its mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems.
  • Scientists Reject Royal Society’s Global Warming Position

    Published August 3, 2010
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    The Royal Society of Great Britain, generally considered the nation’s most prestigious scientific society, has announced it will conduct a review of a previous public statement supporting the claims of global warming alarmists.
  • Penn State Exonerates Michael Mann

    Published August 3, 2010
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    Pennsylvania State University recently released a report summarizing its final “investigation” into whether one of its employees had committed scientific misconduct.
  • Wisconsin Legislature Rejects Global Warming Bill

    Published July 13, 2010
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    The Wisconsin legislature declined to take action on a controversial global warming bill, allowing its 2010 session to end without implementing energy restrictions recommended by a global warming task force handpicked by Gov. Jim Doyle.
  • Taking the Tip from Tipper: Divorcing AGW

    Published June 14, 2010
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    Former Vice President Al Gore spent the last decade as a larger-than-life figure, more of a symbol than a living, breathing human being.
  • International Climate Conference Proves “Skeptics” Champion Vibrant Discussion

    Published June 13, 2010
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    Global warming is not a human-induced crisis, reported more than 70 speakers in three days of sessions at The Heartland Institute’s Fourth International Conference on Climate Change, May 16-18 in Chicago.
  • NAS Report: ‘Partisan and Closed Minded’

    Published May 20, 2010
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    The National Academy of Sciences Thursday reasserted its opinion that the Earth’s climate has warmed to crisis levels and that human activity – the burning of fossil fuels – is the primary cause.
  • Opening Climate Conference Gala Proves ‘Skeptics’ No Monolith

    Published May 17, 2010
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    CHICAGO -- Steve McIntyre, whose persistent inquiry into the data supporting an iconic graphic of global-warming disaster called the “hockey stick” led to the scandal known as Climategate, outlined the tell-tale footprints he followed for a
  • Monday Climate Conference Speakers Warn of ‘Meaningless’ Warming, Even Global Cooling

    Published May 17, 2010
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    CHICAGO (May 17, 2010) - Attendees at the Fourth International Conference on Climate Change here who hoped to stock up on ammunition to battle global warming alarmists got locked and loaded Monday.
  • PJTV to Cover Climate Conference Live

    Published May 13, 2010
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    Live coverage of the eight keynote speeches at the fourth International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago will be streamed online by Pajamas Media's PJTV.
  • Economists Cite Flaws in Global Warming

    Published May 6, 2010
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    As the science underlying predictions about global warming unravels amid scandal and contrary data, the economic argument against regulations aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions is gaining traction.