Joe Bast
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Climate ChangeFeatured
Fisking CBS: What Happens if the U.S. Withdraws from the Paris Climate Change Agreement?
by Joe Bast May 30, 2017A friend over the Memorial Day weekend sent me a link to a story at the CBS News website about the supposed parade of horribles that would befall the planet if Donald Trump keeps his promise and withdraws from Paris Climate Treaty.
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Climate ChangeFeatured
Happy Memorial Day, You Stupid, Arrogant, Liberal Global Warming Alarmist!
by Joe Bast May 26, 2017It’s that time of year again, a holiday where you stand around the grill and patiently (or not) explain the truth to your liberal relatives and friends.
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Climate ChangeFeaturedGovernment
House Democrats Are Wrong About Heartland’s Book on Climate Change
by Joe Bast April 4, 2017Someone asked if we could reply more specifically to some of the claims made in yesterday’s news release from Congressman Grijalva (S-AZ) and two other liberal Democrats. Okay.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyScience
Heartland Replies to Naomi Oreskes
by Joe Bast March 31, 2017We oppose climate alarmism because we know it is a fraud, a disinformation campaign used by the left to advance the same anti-human agenda they were pushing in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyPolitics
Open Call to Join NASA’s Federal Advisory Committees
by Joe Bast February 28, 2017NASA is seeking members for four new advisory committees. Unfortunately, people who are not part of the GW establishment may not be qualified.
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FeaturedGovernmentLibertyPolitics
Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast on Trump’s Inaugural Address
by Joe Bast January 20, 2017Trump’s repeated promise to put the interests of Americans first sounded odd, to me and probably to many people listening to this address, because it is so rarely heard from our national elected leaders.
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Heartland has some experience with Wikipedia’s policy of allowing opponents of organizations such as ours to fill the entries with lies and not allow others to correct them with the truth.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyRegulation
Will the National Academy of Sciences Allow EPA to Get Away with Murder?
by Joe Bast September 8, 2016Which is it? Is EPA lying when it says even trace amounts of PM in the air kill hundreds of thousands of people every year? Or is it lying to hundreds of volunteers who participate in experiments involving exposure to levels of PM that EPA claims are toxic?
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
The Culture’s Full Embrace of Radical Environmentalism is Not Inevitable
by Joe Bast June 3, 2016Saying modern environmentalism is “a key part of the cultural shift” away from “racism, sexism, xenophobia and homophobia” is name-calling. People who oppose the radical views of Earth First and Greenpeace are, by this logic, racists, sexists, xenophobic, and homophobic. Al Gore said basically the same thing at the end of a recent TED lecture on climate change.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPolitics
Peter Gleick Resigns as President of Pacific Institute … Because of Fakegate?
by Joe Bast March 24, 2016Maybe The Heartland Institute never stood a chance against Peter Gleick, because DOJ already made up its mind that alarmists are the “good guys” and realists are the “bad guys” in the global warming debate. Maybe Gleick had political protection from the White House. Maybe political bias trumped justice?
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I met McDonald a few times at Philadelphia Society events and got to hear him hold forth on his deep knowledge of American history. He was heads and shoulders above other historians in the room… and the room was filled with folks who prided themselves on knowing American history. His presentations were dense with facts and insights.
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This is almost unspeakably sad. Bob was the very embodiment of the “happy warrior” in the global warming debate. He was a scholar’s scholar, with impeccable credentials (including a Ph.D. from Cambridge), careful attention to detail, and a deep understanding of and commitment to the scientific method. He endured the slings and arrows of the anti-science Left with seeming ease and good humor and often warned against resorting to similar tactics to answer them.