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Environment & Energy
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The Heartland Institute Applauds President Trump’s Executive Orders on Climate and Energy Policy
Opinion -With a flurry of signatures, Trump wiped out every vestige of his predecessor’s policies. -
Sodom and Gomorrah, California: America Previews the Wages of Arrogance and Incompetence
Opinion -During these past few days, our nation has had a dramatic preview of a community that has entrusted its civic institutions for way too long to arrogant, incompetent ideologues who failed to provide the needed services to protect its citizens. Residents of Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah were punished for their evil ways; voters in the […] -
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. -
15 Questions That Will Put an End to the ‘Climate Scare’ Once-and-for-All
Opinion -To support the growth of health and prosperity worldwide for the 8 billion on this planet in the coming decades, and the increasing demand for electricity, and for the 6,000+ products in our materialistic society, and for the various transportation fuels ⏤ will challenge humanity’s creativity to support the supply chains to meet those growing […] -
America Needs a Subzero Blackout Prevention Program
Opinion -Switching from coal to gas has made us vulnerable to cold weather blackouts. We need a program to address and cure this vulnerability. Action at both the State and Federal levels will be needed. New coal-fired power may be part of the answer. -
Climate Change Weekly # 529 – Bad Estimates of Solar Activity and Temperatures Undermine Climate Change Projections
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. -
Trump Expected to Annihilate California’s ‘Green Mandates’ — the Most Radical in the World
Opinion -President-elect Trump recognizes a key fact that Newsom does not recognize, that there is no known “replacement” to fossil fuels that supports the materialistic demands of the population and economy. Thus, most “green” movements are projected to be obliterated after Trump’s January 20th inauguration. -
The Heartland Institute Solidifies Its Global Impact by Founding ‘Heartland UK/Europe’
Opinion -Press Release -We are officially establishing a beach-head overseas to fight for global freedom with Heartland UK/Europe. -
Time is on Colorado’s Side – No Need to Rush
Opinion -The ultimate “protection” for Colorado and the other Upper Basin states (Utah, Wyoming, and New Mexico) is rigid enforcement of the existing interstate compact, which has governed distribution since 1922. -
Climate Change Weekly # 528 – Farm Groups Fear Losing Climate Subsidies, Not Climate Change Itself
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. -
Stop the ‘Green Hallucinationists’ Plan to Close All 200 Coal Power Plants
Opinion -America continues to subsidize the development of occasionally generated electricity from weather-dependent wind turbines and solar panels to replace coal power plants. -
Trump Administration Energy and Climate Policy Initiatives
Opinion -Donald Trump and JD Vance have a mandate on energy, economic, immigration and other issues that won them 50% of popular, 58% of electoral and 82% of US county votes. -
The California Offshore Wind Environmental Impact Statement Is Full of Holes
Opinion -BOEM is taking comments on a draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for its five floating wind offshore leases off the California coast. -
Climate Change Weekly # 527: Climategate Revisited: 15th Anniversary of Climate Hoax Exposure
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -This month marks the 15th anniversary of “Climategate”—the release of thousands of emails among climate scientists showing them behaving very badly. -
California ‘Purifies’ Its Little Air Bubble at the Expense of Its Residents
Opinion -Driven by California Governor Gavin Newsom’s obliviousness to the reality that the so-called energy transition is only an electricity transition, the State’s 40 million residents continue to bear the expense of his so-called transition from fossil fuels. -
COP 29 Diplomacy Delivers Perfectly Vague Promises a Decade Away
Opinion -In Cop 29’s “Finance agreement” diplomacy is truly the art of agreeing to nothing. There is no agreement of substance here because there is no substance to this agreement. Each side gets its number someday and that is all there is to it. -
Climate Change Weekly # 526: Some Suggestions on Climate and Environmental Policy for the New Sheriff in Town
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. -
Scientists Haven’t ‘Saved’ the Ozone Layer
Opinion -In 2015, scientists at NASA predicted that the Ozone Hole would be half closed by 2020. That hasn’t happened. Other scientists have forecasted that the hole will not begin to disappear until 2040 or later. But the longer the hole persists, the greater the likelihood that the ozone layer is dominated by natural factors, not human CFC emissions. -
Climate Change Weekly #525: Data Indicate Climate Change Won’t Slow Crop Yield Increases
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. -
New Book Pushes Back on Justin Trudeau’s Net Zero Plan with Facts
Opinion -Press Release -"Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition" outlines why Trudeau’s climate plans will cause economic hardship in Canada, and will do nothing measurable to improve the global climate. -
Developing Countries Are Leading the Movement Toward Nuclear-Generated Electricity
Opinion -Astonishingly, while hungry countries are pursuing reliable and emissions-free electricity from nuclear and low-emission technologies for their electricity supply from coal, oil, and gas, the wealthier countries with ample goods and services produced by fossil fuel derivatives are focusing on continuously subsidizing wind and solar for occasional and unreliable electricity. -
Climate Change Weekly #524: Plants Are Using Much More CO2 Than Climate Models Assume
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. -
Democrats’ Green New Deal Will Keep the Poor… Poor, and the Rich…Rich!
Opinion -Producing continuous and uninterruptable electricity at the lowest, most efficient, cost-effective price with the security of supply is the biggest employment-generating decision developing country policymakers can make.