James Taylor

James Taylor is the President of the Heartland Institute. Taylor is also director of Heartland's Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy. Taylor is the former managing editor (2001-2014) of Environment & Climate News, a national monthly publication devoted to sound science and free-market environmentalism.
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Heavy Rainfall

Hawaii Experiencing Fewer Extreme Rain Events, Despite Media Alarm

The Associated Press, USA Today, The Guardian, and other media outlets delivered a coordinated – and false – message yesterday with a spate of stories claiming climate change is responsible for extremely heavy rains...
Sea level

Sen. Angus King Asserts Far-Fetched Maine Sea-Level Scare

U.S. Sen. Angus King (I-ME) whipped up far-fetched climate change fears at a conference last week, claiming a “pulse” of sea-level rise may begin within 20 years that would raise sea level by as...
Coral Reefs

Coral Extinction Crisis Canceled – New Study Documents Billions of Coral Colonies

A newly published study of coral reefs finds coral populations are staggeringly large and extremely unlikely to face extinction pressures anytime in the foreseeable future. The peer-reviewed study by scientists who had previously promoted...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Full Video Posted of CPAC Session on The Climate Hustle

Full video of the CPAC 2021 breakout session on the leftist/alarmist climate hustle has been posted to YouTube. The panel features actor Kevin Sorbo (Hercules), CFACT’s Marc Morano, and me discussing various aspects of...
Social cost of carbon

Social Cost of Carbon May Be Social Benefit of Carbon, Economist Finds

The Biden administration made headlines on Friday by imposing a “social cost of carbon” – to be factored into federal cost-benefit analysis – that is more than six times higher than the social cost...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Lead Author of National Climate Assessment Joins Billion-Dollar Dark Money Activist Group

Activist climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, who served as a lead author of the federal government’s most recent National Climate Assessment, has accepted a position as chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, a billion-dollar dark...
Crop production

Sorry, Reuters, Coffee Farming Getting Easier, Not Harder, under ‘Climate Change’

The Christian Science Monitor and other media outlets published a Reuters article Monday claiming climate change is making it “harder and harder each year” for Nicaraguan farmers to grow coffee. The claim is simply...
Ocean currents

CNN.com Gaslights Readers on Failed Ocean Predictions – Now Claims Opposite

Just one year after climate activists and their media allies spread fear with claims that global warming is causing the world’s ocean currents to speed up, CNN.com is now claiming the opposite – and...
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