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.
356 POSTS

-

0 COMMENTS

Latest News

Crop production

Sorry, Google News, Coffee Production Is Setting Records, Not Declining

Among its top search results today for “climate change,” Google News is promoting an article claiming climate change is decimating coffee crops. The claim is ridiculous, as global coffee production is enjoying substantial long-term...
Coral Reefs

Science Rebuts New Claims that Warming Is Destroying Coral Reefs

The Associated Press and many other corporate news outlets are promoting a new report by an environmental activist group claiming climate change is threatening the Great Barrier Reef and other reef systems with irreversible...
Crop production

Sorry, Google, Middle East Crops Are a Success Story, Not a Climate Crisis

Google News is hyping a story published by Agrinews, which promotes a month-old World Bank report claiming water scarcity in the Middle East – caused by climate change – threatens crop production. The World...
Climate record

New Archaeological Finds Shows Earth Is Typically Warmer than Today

Archaeologists have published a new paper in New Scientist that confirms what previous research has shown: numerous periods during recent history have been as warm as or warmer than the present. The paper, “Climate change...
Drought

Relax Indy Star, Climate Change Is Not Causing Water Shortages in Indiana

An article in the Indianapolis Star (Indy Star) titled, “’Will we have water when we need it?’: How Indiana utilities are preparing for climate change,” says utilities are concerned climate change will cause water...
Hurricanes

No, 2020 Was Likely Not a Record Hurricane Season

The title of a recent Washington Post story about hurricanes makes a bold but likely erroneous claim, “2020 Atlantic hurricane season breaks all-time record while leaving Gulf Coast battered.” The Post is not alone...
Hurricanes

NY Times ‘Knows’ Hurricane Facts that Are Actually False

A story in the New York Times today is misleadingly titled, “5 Things We Know About Climate Change and Hurricanes,” (Emphasis mine). In the story, the Times substitutes speculation by a few climate alarmists...
Health impacts

No, Google, Climate Change Does Not Cause Cancer

Among the top items Google is promoting today under the search term “climate change” is a paper out of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) titled, “Climate Change Will Give Rise to...
1...323334...45Page 33 of 45

Most Popular

Popular categories

Alarmist messengers/claims308Crop production219Climate change impacts162Economics and policy159Extreme Weather156Hurricanes114
© The Heartland Institute