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"Green" enterprises are now facing the daunting prospect of having to stand on their own two feet.
Prominent skeptical climate scientists, experts, authors, and activists gathered from around the world, to attend the Heartland Institute's 14th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC) in Las Vegas, Nevada.
CFACT’s Marc Morano and Heartland Institute president James Taylor teamed up for what turned out to be a lively internet discussion on Zoom. WATCH NOW
A gatebreaker is something a skeptical student can send around to the class when the teacher insists on alarmism. Or something short and simple to send to a journalist in response to an alarmist article, or to a politician making alarmist speeches, or the local blowhard alarmist. It's power lies in its specificity and its simplicity.
A joyous celebration of climate realism in Las Vegas.
In its 2002 report, many contend the National Academies of Sciences underestimated how rising fuel efficiency standards for automobiles were adversely impacting public safety. Now it appears a new panel has been convened to review this assessment, but according to Joe Bast of the Heartland Institute, it appears politics is playing a role in the selection process. “This new panel offers an opportunity to fix errors in the 2002 report, but this won't likely happen because, in clear violation of NAS policy, three people on it have previously served on the original panel, and the fourth individual has mostly [...]
In recent decades the EPA has severely tightened the nation's air quality standards. But is such a tightening still warranted from a public health perspective? Well not according to Dr. John Dunn of the Heartland Institute who has this to say: "The Environmental Protection Agency has just written another set of tighter air quality standards for American cities which relies on claims that air pollution kills people in an interval of a few days. That's nonsense. The studies show small mortality number changes and do not meet the scientific requirement of at least 100 percent likelihood. The EPA health [...]
Does the Endangered Species Act need to be fixed? Well the answer is "yes" according to Dr. Jay Lehr of the Heartland Institute, who recently explored this issue for the prestigious policy think tank and has this to say: "The Endangered Species Act has placed man in an inferior position to all other creatures in the animal kingdom. This should be rectified by implementing four basic human protections: Listings of endangered species should be based on independent peer-reviewed science conducted by scientists not employed by government or activist organizations; protected habitat should be inventoried before any new habitat is [...]
The Heartland Institute president said, "But a project like this just literally drives the nail in the coffin of right whales."
CFACT president and co-founder Craig Rucker spoke with Melina Wisecup of NTD News at the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change in Las Vegas.