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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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...
Extreme cold

Wrong, Washington Post, Cold Kills More People in the United States (and Globally) Than Heat

The Washington Post’s (WaPo) dedicated (twice a week) climate columnist, Michael J. Cohen, the so-called Climate Coach, posted an article stating as a fact that high temperatures kill more people in the United States...
Extreme heat

Wrong, USA Today and Other Media, U.S. States Haven’t Set New High Temperature Records This Summer

USA Today followed the lead of several other mainstream media outlets claiming that during a recent summer heatwave in early July that the world, along with several U.S. states, have set new all time...
Drought

Check Your Facts, Yahoo News and New York Times, Neither Canadian Wildfires nor Heatwaves Are Getting Worse

Smoke from Canada’s ongoing wildfires continues to darken skies in the United States, and mainstream media outlets like Yahoo News and the New York Times blame climate change. They are wrong.
Climate change impacts

Wrong (Again), CBC, Climate Change Isn’t Causing a Decline in Wine Production

For the second time in the space of two months CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster, ran a story claiming climate change is harming wine production, particularly in Canada. As Climate Realism showed in March, when...
Climate change impacts

Wrong, NBC News, Climate Change Is Enhancing Wheat Production, Not Threatening It

A story on NBC News cites worst case scenarios to claim that climate change threatens global wheat production. This is false. Hard data shows wheat production has grown dramatically during the recent period of...
Climate change impacts

Wrong, Scientific American, Governments Cause Inflation, Not Climate Change

Scientific American republished a story by Climatewire claiming climate change is causing inflation. This is false. Inflation, in the words of Nobel prize winning economist, Milton Friedman, “is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.”...
Economic costs

The Fed Is Right, Bloomberg, Climate Change Poses No Threat to Banks ‘Financial Stability’

An article in Bloomberg, “Climate change not 'serious risk' to financial stability, Fed's Waller says,” quotes Christopher Waller, the Board Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank (the Fed) of the United States, saying that...
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