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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Crop production
Media Promote Coffee Climate Emergency, as Production Reaches New Records
Among the top Google News search results today under “climate change” is an article published by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and others, claiming climate change is devastating Central American coffee...
Species Impacts
No, Climate Change Is Not ‘Pushing Birds North’
Among the top Google News search results today under “climate change, the UK Guardian and other media outlets are claiming a new atlas of bird habitats shows global warming is “pushing” birds further north....
Economic costs
Biden’s Climate Plan Would Punish Household Budgets, Lacks Voter Support
Joe Biden pledges to spend $2 trillion on his climate plan during his first term. Divided among America’s 120 million households, that puts the average American household on the hook for $17,000 – or...
Snowpack
CNN Bemoans a Greener Arctic. Wasn’t Green Supposed to Be Good?
CNN published an article yesterday attempting to raise alarm about climate change by asserting – wait for it – the Arctic is getting greener and that is a bad thing. The article, titled, “The...
Drought
Yes, Indianapolis Star, Climate Change Is Delivering More Water to Indiana
The Indianapolis Star published a misleading article this week titled, “‘Will we have water when we need it?’: How Indiana utilities are preparing for climate change”. While the article claims climate change is threatening...
Plant life
Climate Activists Claim Leaves Falling Earlier, Denying Their Previous Claims
Climate activists are raising alarm this weekend with claims that climate change is making autumn leaves change color earlier and drop to the ground earlier. These claims, however, contradict their longstanding claims that climate...
Crop production
Nat Geo Goes ‘Me Too’ on Cranberry Climate Fables
National Geographic is exploiting Thanksgiving weekend by scaring people into believing climate change is “coming for New England’s cranberries.” As reported here last week at Climate Realism, however, cranberry production in New England and...
Mortality
No, Climate Change Is Not Causing More Ice Drownings
The New York Times, Google News, and other corporate media outlets are scaring people with articles today claiming global warming is causing more winter ice drownings. The articles reference a newly published study claiming...
Most Popular
Climate Change Not Causing More Droughts, Deaths or Wars; Unlikely to Harm Plankton
A study by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) finds little evidence purported human-caused climate change is increasing the number or intensity of droughts or heatwaves...
Climate change will cost much less than we think
Climate alarmism, not climate change, is causing economic harm.
The Non-Governmental International Panel on Climate Change (David Legates, ICCC13)
David Legates, professor of climatology in the Department of Geography at the University of Delaware, speaks on Panel 1: Scientific Observations at The Heartland...
MIT Podcast Denies Climate Science, Extreme Weather Events
A March 25 MIT Technology Review podcast titled, “Yes, you can blame climate change for extreme weather,” defies objective facts and even the findings...
New Video Demolishes Claims of Megadrought in U.S. West
Tony Heller, who operates the website RealClimateScience.com, has posted a powerful four-minute video absolutely destroying claims that the western United States is currently experiencing...
Friends of Science Releases Study Debunking Alarmist Katharine Hayhoe
The Canadian science organization Friends of Science is taking alarmist ringleader Katharine Hayhoe to climate school, releasing a 78-page study debunking Hayhoe’s climate misinformation....