Linnea Lueken

https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/linnea-lueken
Linnea Lueken is a Research Fellow with the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy. While she was an intern with The Heartland Institute in 2018, she co-authored a Heartland Institute Policy Brief "Debunking Four Persistent Myths About Hydraulic Fracturing."
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No, NPR, Climate Change Is Not Causing Weather Disasters and Deaths

National Public Radio (NPR) recently posted an article, “Climate change is deadly. Exactly how deadly?” where they attempt to link deaths due to weather disasters to long-term human-caused climate change. This is false. It...
Extreme heat

Some in Mainstream Media Partially Correct False Claims About Record Delhi Heat

The mainstream media quickly jumped on claims that Delhi, India experienced a record setting temperature of 52.9℃ degrees, citing human-caused climate change as the cause. CNN, ABC, Reuters, and CNBC were among the major...
Air turbulence

Wrong, CNBC and DOT Sec. Buttigieg, Air Turbulence Isn’t Increasing Due to Climate Change

CNBC recently posted an article reporting on U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s claim that climate change is causing increased turbulence on airline flights. The evidence for this claim is sparse, largely built on...
Economic costs

Sorry, Guardian, the Climate Cost Studies You Are Pushing Are Wrong, Warming Is Boosting Growth

A recent article in The Guardian claims that economic damage from just a few degrees of global warming would be enormous. This is false, and the studies that The Guardian cites as making this...
Climate change impacts

The Guardian is Confused, 1.5°C of Warming is Not Catastrophic

A recent article at The Guardian, “Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like,” claims that 1.5°C of warming, while not the end of the world, still will have many...
Climate change impacts

Wrong, The Conversation, Climate Change Is Not Making Flooding Worse

A recent post at The Conversation claims that flooding is getting worse in the United States due to climate change, calling for a change in water handling philosophy in order to mitigate the effects....
Drought

The BBC Promotes Bad Science About Heat, Floods, Drought, and Wildfires

A recent BBC article, titled “How climate change worsens heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, and floods,” claims that climate change is linked to four types of extreme weather, specifically claiming it causes: extreme rainfall, worse heatwaves,...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Mainstream Media Falls for Weather Attribution Con Again Over Dubai’s Flooding

A few media outlets, including CNN and BBC, have run recent articles talking about flooding in Dubai, claiming that climate change made the storms worse. This is false. There is no evidence that climate...
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