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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Climate change impacts

Record Setting Crops Are Good News, Bloomberg, Thanks for Reporting It

Human Progress excerpted a paywalled article from Bloomberg discussing the fact that major crops are expected to continue to set records in the 2024/2025 crop year. This good news is not unexpected for anyone...
Wildfires

Wrong, The Economist, Wildfires Are Declining, Not Getting Worse

The Economist ran a story, titled “Wildfires are getting more frequent and more devastating.” From the headline, which carries the subhead, “Climate change is accelerating the blaze,” to the story’s conclusion, it is false....
Extreme Weather

Wrong, Bloomberg, Texas “Deniers” Are Right, Climate Change Had Nothing to Do with Hurricane Beryl

Bloomberg recently published an article which said Hurricane Beryl in particular, and other natural disasters which commonly hit the state, are symptoms of climate change, and that Texas’ pro-fossil fuel policies are partly responsible....
Alarmist messengers/claims

Wrong, Mainstream Media, Hajj Deaths Not Unusual or Due to Climate Change

Dozens of mainstream media outlets have run stories in the past week linking the heat related deaths during the annual Hajj in Saudi Arabia to climate change. There is no such connection. Data shows...
Crop production

The Wall Street Journal’s Left Turn on Climate Change Is Unjustified, the ‘Finer Things in Life’ Are Widely Available

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an article, titled “Climate Change Is Coming for the Finer Things in Life,” claiming that by causing “wonky weather,” climate change is disrupting crop production for a variety...
Economic costs

Thanks for Publishing the Truth, New York Post, Climate Activists Don’t Care If People Die

The New York Post published an article by noted researcher Bjorn Lomborg, Ph.D., in which he argues climate activists not only don’t care about people’s well-being, they, in fact, support policies that result in...
Air turbulence

CNN’s Attempt to Link the Singapore Airlines’ Turbulence to Climate Change Is Disgusting

Less than 24 hours after likely air turbulence caused injuries and even a death on a Singapore bound, Singapore Airlines fight, CNN reporter, Jacopo Prisco, was quick to raise the specter of climate change...
Climate refugees

Wrong, Al Jazeera, Climate Change Not Causing Tribal Woes in Peru

An article by Al Jazeera claims climate change is wreaking havoc in the lives of the San Miguel Centro Marankiari indigenous peoples of the Ashaninka village in the mountains of central Peru. This is...
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