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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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...
Climate change impacts

Relax, Fresh Plaza, Florida Strawberry Production Is Growing

Fresh Plaza, a global trade publication for the fresh produce industry, ran an article claiming climate change is harming Florida’s strawberry production. This is false. Data shows that amid modest warming, Florida’s strawberry production...
Renewable Energy

Right, Washington Post, Whales Aren’t Carbon Sinks, Especially If Offshore Wind Kills Them

The Washington Post (WP) ran a story discussing the possibility of counting whales as carbon sinks or offsets, concluding that any carbon stored in whales would be insufficient to offset more than a fraction...
Economic costs

Right, Washington Times, EPA’s Appliance Regulations Considerably ‘Lower Performance’

Editor’s Note: The Washington Times published a story detailing the “avalanche of energy rules,” pushed by the Biden administration “to turn entirety of homes green.” As the story explains manufacturers warn the rules will reduce the performance...
Economic costs

Right, CBS, Wind and Solar Facilities Do Produce a Lot of Hard to Manage Waste

CBS News published a story, titled “A black eye for green energy? Renewable energy growth brings mounting waste challenge,” detailing the fact that it is difficult, if not impossible, to recycle many of the...
Climate change impacts

Tell the Truth, CNN, Climate Change Not Pushing Species or Landscapes to the Brink

Just in time for Earth Day, CNN published an interactive story claiming climate change was pushing various plant and animal species to the brink of extinction, and various landscapes to the brink of disappearing....
Climate change impacts

Sorry, Fortune, Threats to Bat Populations Include Climate Solutions, Not Climate Change

Fortune, among other mainstream media outlets, published a story claiming climate change poses a serious threat to bat populations in North America. Bat populations do face a number of threats, but the evidence indicates...
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