James Taylor
James Taylor is Director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy at The Heartland Institute. 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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Economic harm
No, NY Times, Climate Change Will Not End the 30-Year Mortgage
The New York Times is asserting a doozy of a fake climate claim today, scaring readers into believing they will no longer be able to get home mortgages because of climate change. The assertion...
Health impacts
NY Times Debunked: Climate Change NOT Tied to Pregnancy Risks
The New York Times published a sensationalist article this morning claiming a new study shows climate change is causing premature, underweight, and stillborn babies. Google News posted the Times article, titled “Climate Change Tied...
Alarmist messengers/claims
No, Coal Power Plants Did Not Cause Extinctions 250 Million Years Ago
Among the top results this afternoon for a Google News search of “climate change” is an article claiming ancient coal-burning caused a mega-extinction event 250 million years ago. In reality, massive volcanic eruptions that...
Mortality
No, Google, Climate Change Is Not Killing Americans, It Is Saving Them
At the top of Google News searches this morning for “climate change” is an article titled, “Climate Change Is Killing Americans. Health Departments Aren’t Equipped to Respond.” The article, published by Columbia Journalism Investigations...
Species Impacts
Sorry, Weather Channel, Mangroves Will NOT Disappear in 30 Years
The Weather Channel published an article on its website Wednesday claiming global warming threatens the extinction of mangrove trees – which rely on warm temperatures to live – within 30 years. Common sense and...
Alarmist messengers/claims
An Inconvenient Truth: Tornado Numbers Expose Al Gore’s Lies
In two articles published this past week here at Climate Realism, we showed how Al Gore’s predictions about melting glaciers in Glacier National Park and disappearing snows at Mt. Kilimanjaro have proven spectacularly wrong....
Drought
The Heartland of America Is Clearly Benefiting from Climate Change
A speaker at a Cigar Society of Chicago event tonight is delivering a talk titled, “Climate Change Is Disrupting America’s Heartland: What We Can Do About It and What We (maybe) Can’t.” The title...
Glaciers
An Inconvenient Truth: Gore Proven Spectacularly Wrong on Glacier National Park
In his 2006 book, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore asserted there would be no more glaciers in Glacier National Park by 2012. “Our own Glacier National Park will soon need to be renamed, ‘the...
Most Popular
Cost/Benefit Analysis of The Green New Deal (Kevin Dayaratna, ICCC13)
Kevin Dayaratna, Senior Statistician and Research Programmer in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis, speaks on Panel 2: Energy and Climate Economics at...
Media Lies Debunked: Coronavirus, Pandemics, and Climate Change
Climate alarmists and major media outlets are deceitfully exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to tell the public lies that climate change makes pandemics more likely...
Warmer Temperatures Reduce COVID-19 Threat, Homeland Security Reports
Recent research from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) indicates heat, humidity, and direct sunlight are strong weapons against the COVID-19 coronavirus. The...
An Inconvenient Truth: Gore Proven Spectacularly Wrong on Snows of Kilimanjaro
In his 2006 book, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore asserted there would be no more snows on Mt. Kilimanjaro by the year 2016. To...
Video: Why Isn’t Al Gore Selling His Beachfront Property?
Al Gore warns of catastrophic sea level rise yet owns a lavish beachfront property. Why isn't he selling it?
Rain forest fires are not climate
Climate change is benefiting the Amazon, not causing wildfires.