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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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....
Uncategorized

Wall Street Journal Get the Facts About Temperature Related Deaths Straight

A Google Search of the term “climate change” today turns up a Wall Street Journal story which reports the good news that the recent modest warming of the earth has resulted in fewer deaths...
Vulnerable populations

Sorry, World Bank and Mainstream Media, Climate Change Not Driving Immigration

A Google news search today of the term “climate change” turns up dozens of stories carried by the mainstream media claiming a study from the World Bank shows climate change could force more than...
Health impacts

Sorry, Medical Journals, Evidence Indicates Climate Change Doesn’t Threaten Human Health  

A Google news search of the phrase “climate change” turns up dozens of stories promoting a joint statement issued on behalf of more than 200 medical journals claiming climate change poses a dire threat...
Hurricanes

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...
Extreme Weather

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...
Hurricanes

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...
Drought

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...
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