Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Is man-made global warming a crisis? Don’t just wonder about it, understand it yourself. Read one or a few chapters of one of the NIPCC reports, and ask if what you read is logical, factual, and relevant to the debate.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Regulation · Science
The Heartland Institute has published extensive research and commentary on why building the Keystone XL Pipeline would be good for American consumers and workers.
I hope all friends and supporters of Heartland will take a moment today to remember Maureen Martin and her many contributions to our freedom.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Anyone who still thinks the environmental movement is based on real science or genuine concern for the environment or public health is either a fool or a “useful idiot” for the most extreme elements of the environmental left.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Leading scientists know that the “prestige” academic journals are biased in favor of flashy and politically correct research findings, even when such findings are frequently contradicted by subsequent research.
No intellectual movement speaks truth to power better than libertarianism.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Science
This is all about “spin” and not, as Seitter says later in his comment, “transparency and scientific integrity.”
Environment/Energy · Featured · Media
The high cost of Obama’s war on coal will soon become apparent, just as it has in Germany and the rest of Europe, and just as the high cost of Obamacare is penetrating the consciousness of the average guy.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Science
Here at The Heartland Institute, we looked under the hood at the science touted by the other side and found it to be utterly unpersuasive.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Media · Science
USA Today did its readers a grave disservice by running an op-ed full of smears and false statements by two of the fruitier nutcakes of the environmental movement, Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Environmentalists hoped the latest study from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) would finally end the increasingly acrimonious debate over the causes and consequences of climate change. It has had the opposite effect.
Companies are constantly looking for ways to use less water to achieve the same level of fracturing.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Media · Science
Climate alarmists have no answer to ‘Climate Change Reconsidered’ other than appeals to authority (and you trust the United Nations, don’t you?) and personal attacks on the scientists who are brave enough to speak out.
Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs · Regulation
Reading through David Kopel’s book today, I’m struck by how prescient he was a dozen years ago in his forecasts of changing technology, emerging competition, and the deadening influence of antitrust law in this arena of rapid change.
THe Declaration of Independence declares war on slavery and tyranny and proclaims a moral foundation for the assertion of freedom and limited government.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Media · Science
The mainstream media’s coverage of President Obama’s recent speech about anthropogenic global warming (AGW) was worse than bad, it was tragic.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Science
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) apparently has been delivering weekly speeches on global warming (alias “climate change”) to an empty Senate chamber for quite some time. Who knew? His speech on[...]
Environment/Energy · Featured · FIRE
P&C insurers stand to make more profits if they exaggerate the threat of global warming. So they do. Is New York Times reporter Eduardo Porter just stupid?
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
The editors of “Nature” have to be pro-GMO because so many of the journal’s readers (If not the editorial writers) are real scientists, and science overwhelmingly documents the safety and benefits of GMOs.
Economics · Environment/Energy · Featured
The March 26 edition of The Wall Street Journal has a special section titled “Environment” presenting excerpts and features from the Journal’s latest ECO:nomics conference. While the opening essay by[...]
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