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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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...
Crop production

Get Real, Bloomberg, Climate Change Is No Child Labor ‘Threat Multiplier,’ Climate Policies Are

A recent Bloomberg article describes a new tool that scores companies based on how much they rely on child labor, which the news outlet claims is exacerbated by climate change. This is false. While...
Drought

Wrong, BBC and Reuters, No Evidence Proves West African Heatwave Is Unprecedented

Multiple media outlets, including the BBC and Reuters, claim that a recent West African heatwave would be “impossible” without global warming. This is claim is misleading and not supported by real-world data. The study...
Climate change impacts

No, Wall Street Journal, Climate Change Is Not Threatening Coffee and Cocoa Production

An article from the Wall Street Journal, “Cocoa and Coffee Prices Have Surged. Climate Change Will Only Take Them Higher,” claims that climate change is driving recent spikes in the price of cocoa and...
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