H. Sterling Burnett

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is the Director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy and the managing editor of Environment & Climate News. In addition to directing The Heartland Institute's Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy, Burnett puts Environment & Climate News together, is the editor of Heartland's Climate Change Weekly email, and the host of the Environment & Climate News Podcast.
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Sorry, WQAD, Data Shows Climate Change Is Not Making Storms Worse

WQAD ran a story reporting climate models predict climate change will make various types of weather events worse, titled “Climate change is spiking frequency, intensity of severe weather.” The story is misleading in couple...
Allergies

WaPo Rehashes Tired Allergy-Climate Change Connection, Misses the Bigger Good News

The Washington Post (WaPo) published a story today, titled “Climate change is making pollen season even worse across the country,” claiming the modest warming experienced over the past century is worsening allergy seasons. This...
Climate change impacts

Sorry, WaPo, There Is No Evidence Bleaching Threatens a Great Barrier Reef “Tipping Point”

The Washington Post (WaPo) published an article today discussing the fact that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) recently suffered its “sixth massive bleaching event,” blaming it on climate change. The evidence that long-term climate...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Climate Facts Unwelcome at Wellcome, Climate Change Benefitting Not Harming Health

The London-based charitable foundation, Wellcome, published a report claiming climate change poses a global public health threat. This is false. Contrary to the Wellcome’s report, data show deaths related to extreme weather events and...
Allergies

Sorry, Associated Press, a Greener World Is a Blessing, Even if Allergies Increase

A story by Seth Borenstein published by the Associated Press, titled “The Big Sneeze: Climate change to make pollen season nastier,” complains the modest warming experienced over the past century has lengthened allergy seasons....
Alarmist messengers/claims

Hooray! Washington Examiner, You’re Right, Climate Change Isn’t an ‘Existential Threat’

A search of Google news for the phrase “climate change,” today turned up a refreshing article in the Washington Examiner, chock full of data, demonstrating climate change does not pose an “existential threat.” In the...
Economic harm

Tone-Deaf ‘Climate Czar’ John Kerry Wrong Again, This Time on Refugees

Even as Russia’s war in the Ukraine kills thousands of innocent civilians, including women and children in bombed out hospital maternity wards, John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s special envoy on climate change, just can’t...
Climate change impacts

Wired Got Its Wires Crossed on Crops, Which are Setting Records, Not Declining

A story in Wired claims climate change is harming crop yields. Nothing could be further from the truth. Data shows crop production and yields have grown substantially during the recent period of modest warming,...
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