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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Climate change impacts

Sorry, PBS, Bangladeshi Farm Innovation Has Nothing to Do with Climate Change

PBS News Weekend ran a story claiming farmers in Bangladesh are developing innovative ways to adapt to climate change. That Bangladeshi’s are innovating is laudable and valuable, but their actions have nothing to do...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Sorry, Vanuatu, Trends Don’t Support Climate Damages Claims in The Hague

According to Axios the United Nations (UN) is poised to approve a resolution from the small island nation of Vanuatu to bring a case for climate change related damages before the International Court of...
Climate change impacts

Relax, Roast Magazine, Climate Change Is Not Causing ‘Systemic Shocks’ Harming Coffee Production

Roast Magazine’s Daily Coffee News rans a story claiming climate change was causing “ongoing systemic shocks,” harming coffee production by creating more simultaneous extreme weather events across different growing regions. This is false. Data...
Air turbulence

Wrong, Business Insider, Climate Change Is Not Making Flying More Dangerous

The Business Insider posted a story recently claiming that climate change is making air turbulence more severe, threating the safety of air passengers. This is false. There is no evidence linking changes in the...
Allergies

Boston Globe Bites on the Seasonal Allergies Alarm, Ignores the Good News About Global Greening

For many, the onset of spring brings seasonal allergies in its train. Also, as a story in the Boston Globe demonstrates, spring delivers an annual supply of stories blaming climate change for initiating earlier,...
Climate change impacts

Facts Matter, Nature World News: Coffee Yields Are Growing Amid Climate Change

An article in Nature World News alternately claims climate change has caused or is likely to cause a decline in coffee yields. This is false. Higher carbon dioxide levels do and will continue to act...
Drought

Sorry, NPR, Your Story on the Great Salt Lake’s Decline Was a Half-Truth

A recent story on NPR’s Morning Edition, titled “Climate change and a population boom could dry up the Great Salt Lake in 5 years,” bemoaned recent historically low levels of the Great Salt Lake...
Climate change impacts

Sorry, OZY/The Drop, Climate Change Did Not Cause 2022’s Decline in Kashmir’s Apple Production

A Google News search for the term “climate change,” today turned up a story published by The Drop, a publication of the multimedia outlet, OZY, which claims Kashmir’s apple production has dropped due to...
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