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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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...
Coral Reefs

Mainstream Media Hypes False Claims Climate Change is Killing Coral

A search of Google news for the term “climate change” turns up dozens of stories in the mainstream media covering a report which claims global warming has killed 14 percent of the world’s corals...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Sorry, Idaho County Free Press, Climate Change Is Not Disrupting Idaho Agriculture

A generally accurate story in the Idaho County Free Press (ICFP) numbers increasingly extreme weather due to climate change among the challenges facing agriculture in the state, resulting in a decline in farmers. This...
Crop production

North Dakota Professor and the Williston Herald Mislead about Ag-Climate Connection

The Williston Herald (North Dakota) published a story claiming climate change is both a significant cause of climate change and is being decimated by it. Both claims are false. Data show agriculture does not...
Alarmist messengers/claims

WALB-TV Wrongly Blames Climate Change for South Georgia’s Water Woes

Near the top of the stories of Google news search today of the term “climate change” is a report from WALB 10 in Albany, Georgia, claiming climate change is causing drought in South Georgia...
Crop production

Sorry, Science News, Climate Change Is Not Causing a Rice Apocalypse

A story published by Science News says climate change threatens to cause a collapse in rice production. Nothing could be further from the truth. Data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...
Crop production

World Economic Forum Asserts Climate Change Pasta Crisis – As Production Sets Records

An article published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) today, titled “Bad news for pasta lovers: the effect of climate change on food staples,” claims climate change is threatening the supply of staple crops,...
Species Impacts

NBC Claims Seafood Climate Crisis – As Production Keeps Setting Records

Among the top Google News search results today for “climate change” is a story by NBC Nightly News claiming climate change is causing falling seafood production and rising seafood prices. NBC’s story is false....
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