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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The Financial Times and Island Nations Are Wrong – Climate Change Not Causing Stronger Hurricanes or Disappearing Islands

Near the top of a Google news search for the phrase “climate change” today one finds a story in the Financial Times reporting island nations blame developed countries’ for causing stronger hurricanes and rapidly...

Sorry, BBC, the World Meteorological Organization Is Wrong, Climate Change Is Not Causing Increasing Weather Disasters

The BBC, among other mainstream media outlets, published a story today claiming climate change has caused a 500 percent increase in extreme weather events over the past 50 years. This is wrong. According to...

Fess Up, Washington Post, Actual Data Doesn’t Show Climate Change Made Ida Worse

A story in the Washington Post, titled “How climate change helped make Hurricane Ida one of Louisiana’s worst,” with Hurricane Ida as its news hook, asserts human caused climate change is driving more intense...

New York Times Misses the Fact That Drought is a Weather Phenomenon, Not Proof of Climate Change

Under its “Extreme Weather and Climate Updates,” section online, the New York Times, suggests climate change is causing drought conditions in the United States to worsen. This is false. Data show no significant increase of...

CNN Promotes Fears Over Facts on Climate Change and Hurricanes

Over the weekend Google news heavily promoted a story on CNN, titled “How the climate crisis is changing hurricanes,” which claimed human caused climate change is making hurricanes worse. This is false. Real-world data...

Sorry, Deseret News, Carbon Taxes Will Harm People, Because They Can’t Be Revenue Neutral

The Deseret News hosted a readers’ forum to address the opinion that a tax on carbon dioxide emissions would be the best solution to address climate change, implying it could be done in a...

Never Fear, Nigeria, Crop Production Is Growing Amidst Climate Change

A search of Google news today for the term “Climate Change” turns up a story from Africa News, claiming climate change is causing food insecurity in Nigeria. There may be growing food insecurity in...

Fear Not, IPCC’s Electric Kool-Aid Ocean Acid Claims are Hallucinations

In its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims humans are causing the world’s oceans to turn acidic, threatening all sea life. This is false. The world’s ocean are...

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