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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CBS News Peddles Climate Attribution Misinformation on Canada’s Wildfires

CBS News ran a story claiming that Canada’s severe wildfires this year were due to climate change. This is false. Although Canada’s wildfires this year were large and did cause widespread air pollution, history...
Extreme heat

True, Indianapolis Star, “Climate Change is not ‘Theoretical,’” but Its Connection to Extreme Weather Is

The Indianapolis Star (IndyStar) published a story claiming climate change is causing dangerous weather changes in Indiana. Climate change is a fact, but data shows, contrary to what is implied by the expert interviewed...
Contradictions

Sorry, Guardian and Reuters, Island Nations Have No Climate Case

The Guardian and Reuters, along with other mainstream media outlets and news services, are covering a “landmark” hearing in a case a group of small island nations are bringing to have carbon dioxide emissions...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Ramaswamy, Not The Washington Post, Is Right About Climate Deaths

The Washington Post (WaPo) ran a so-called fact check on presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s claim during the recent Republican debate that “The climate change agenda is a hoax … The reality is more people...
Climate change impacts

Thanks, Washington Post, for Demonstrating There is No Climate Change/Wine Apocalypse

The Washington Post (WaPo) ran a story bemoaning the fact that France has produced more wine than wine drinkers are demanding, resulting in French wine producers destroying large volumes of wine. This is a...
Drought

MSNBC Is Wrong About Extreme Weather Increases and Adaptation

A story posted on MSNBC by Kate Marvel, Ph.D., asserts both that climate change is worsening extreme weather events and making it weirder, and for the latter reason, adaptation to climate change is not...
Alarmist messengers/claims

After a False Start, Mainstream Media Largely Reports Accurately on Maui Wildfire

As has become a far too common knee jerk reaction as natural disasters occur, mainstream media outlets, like Bloomberg and the Los Angeles Times, for example, were quick to blame climate change for the Maui wildfire and...
Extreme Weather

Right, Wall Street Journal, Wildfires Are Declining as Climate Changes

Writing in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Bjorn Lomborg, Ph.D., discusses the fact that, despite near constant media reports to the contrary, amid recent modest warming the number of wildfires and the acreage lost to...
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