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, Burett 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, ABC News, Climate Change Is Not Forcing Guatemalans to Flee Their Country

A story on ABC Television news claims climate change is creating a dire situation in Guatemala, forcing its residents to choose between starving or migrating. This is false. Data from the U.N. Food and...
Sea level

Yahoo News Repeats the False Claim Tuvalu Is Sinking Beneath Rising Seas, Data Show It Is Growing

In an interview, Seve Paeniu, the finance minister of the island nation of Tuvalu, tells Yahoo News his country is sinking beneath rising seas as a result of climate change. Hard data gathered for...
Sea level

No, Roanoke Times, Climate Change Is Not To Blame for Virginia Beach’s Flooding

A Google news search of the term “climate change” turns up a recent story in the Roanoke Times claiming human caused climate change is causing increased incidences of flooding in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This...
Crop production

ABC News Promotes Misleading Claim by the U.N. That Climate Change Is Causing Madagascar Food Crisis, a Claim Undermined by the U.N.’s Own Data

A Google news search for the term “climate change’ today turns up a number of stories in the mainstream media promoting the United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP) claim that climate change is...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Sorry, Nat Geo, Data Falsifies Your Climate Change Crisis Claims

A pictorial essay in National Geographic (Nat Geo) claims to show human climate change causing various natural disasters. It is often said “a picture is worth a thousand words.” If true, in this instance,...
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Media Conflates Weather with ‘Climate Change’ in  Lake Tahoe Stories

Within the space of 24 hours news reports highlighted both that Lake Tahoe had fallen below its natural rim threatening water flows to the Truckee River and the Truckee-Carson Irrigation district, and that, in...
Alarmist messengers/claims

The Lancet Makes False Climate Change Death Claims, Media Swallows Them

The Washington Post, among a number of other mainstream media outlets, covered a new report published by the medical journal, The Lancet, which claims climate change is causing illness, hunger, and premature death. The...
Wildfires

The Hill Is Wrong, Climate Change Is Grossly Overemphasized as a Factor Causing Wildfires

Near the top of a Google news search for the phrase “climate change” today turns up a story in The Hill claiming the media is failing to properly place the blame for wildfires on...
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