People I Don’t Like
At the end of every year it is customary to offer up lists of all kinds—the best this, the worst that—and it is a brief, generally amusing exercise.
Tagged: Environmentalism
Being Anti-Energy is Being Anti-Humanity
Everything you need to know about how perverse and dangerous the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is summed up in its latest report. Released on November 2, it issued the same tired, old and untrue claims of “severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems”
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Shivering in the Dark
Yesterday, the temperature here at Rosevale in Queensland rose 25 ℃ in just 8 hours – from zero at 6 am to 25 ℃ at 2 pm. It rose at the rate of 3 ℃ per hour, and every degree of warmth felt better.
Environmentalists Use Environmental Justice to Kill Millions Per Year
Environmentalists are enlisting minority groups such as African-Americans and Latinos to help them stop use of fossil fuels in the name of ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. They claim minorities suffer more from health effects due to fossil fuel use because they live closer to power plants. Thus we need to replace fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy sources of solar and wind. No thought is given to higher priced electricity that results from these energy sources and how this impacts minority communities.
Environmental Groups Have Lost the War Against Fracking
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique to remove natural gas and oil from shale formations, has been under withering assault from environmental groups for much of the last decade. Fracking has been blamed for contamination of drinking water, air pollution, earthquakes, water shortages, global warming, radiation discharge, and even cancer. But it appears that environmentalists have lost the battle against fracking.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation
Jackson County, Oregon Bans GMOs
For years we argued that the farming community should respect OUR right to be organic. Now we’ve switched to denying our neighbors THEIR rights. And that goes against everything it has ever meant to be organic.
It’s a Very Complex World
In the 1980s I devoted a lot of effort to debunking a torrent of Green lies about pesticides and herbicides. This was before the Greens latched onto “global warming” which has since become “climate change” and the subject of a recent White House report filled with dire predictions of planetary doom and disaster.
Duke Energy’s Clean Coal Plant Coughed, Wheezed in February
After the global warming-battling Edwardsport coal gasification power plant used more power than it generated during the September-to-November time-frame, earlier this month information filed with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission showed the Duke Energy facility operated at less than 1 percent of capacity in February.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation
VIDEO: The Organic Food Certification Racket
Mischa Popoff is one of the most formidable opponents of the organic food movement, as this video of his speech to the Far West Agribusiness Association clearly shows. The simple fact that he is carrying to the masses is that the organic industry, particularly the organic certification industry, is a big racket.
Scaring the World About its Climate
The IPCC was set up by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environmental Program. It has enlisted thousands of scientists to contribute to its scare campaign, but as Joseph Bast, the president of The Heartland Institute, noted in a recent Forbes article regarding the vast difference in the assertions of the IPCC scientists and those of its puckishly named Nonintergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), “What is a non-scientist to make of these dueling reports? Indeed, what is a scientist to make of this?”
Clouds on the Solar Horizon
Consumers considering installing solar panels on their rooftops have far more to think through than the initial decision to “go solar.”
They may search for the best price, only to discover, as customers in central Florida did, that after paying $20,000-40,000 for their systems, they are stuck with installations that may be unusable or unsafe. BlueChip Energy—which also operated as Advanced Solar Photonics (ASP) and SunHouse Solar—sold its systems at environmental festivals and home shows. Buyers thought they were getting a good deal and doing the right thing for the environment. Instead, they were duped.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Podcast · Regulation · Science
Heartland Daily Podcast: Jay Lehr on Agriculture Appreciation
Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr was a guest on Brownfield News Radio, after delivering a speech at the Iowa Farm Bureau annual meeting in Des Moines, Iowa.
Budgets/Taxes · Environment/Energy · Featured · Taxes
Bag the Plastic Bag Tax
Legislators in Harrisburg are considering a proposal from state Sen. Daylin Leach, D-Wayne, that would make Pennsylvania the first state to impose a statewide tax on the use of plastic bags.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
A Short History of Climate Hysteria
As the pumped-up spectre of climatic catastrophe continues to deflate, Ruper Darwall’s new book makes a handy guide to the conceits, careerism, delusions and blatant misrepresentations that debased the good name of science and set the stage for economic ruin.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Typhoon Haiyan Discussion with James Taylor
The recent typhoon that hit the Philippines- Typhoon Haiyan- has caused an uproar from the global warming alarmists. One such alarmist, Susan Brooks Thistlewaite, wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post on Tuesday in which she identified global warming skeptics as “morally evil”.
Global Warming’s Mt. Rushmore Wisely Embraces Nuclear Power
Scientists at the forefront of global warming activism published an open letter encouraging their fellow warmists to embrace safe nuclear power as a means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. If environmental activist groups honestly believe humans are causing a global warming crisis, they will eagerly join in support.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Don’t Let the Left Define “Environment”
I live in the best environmental conditions in the history of mankind. Even in Chicago, my air and water is far cleaner than the air and water used by cavemen[…]
Global Warming as Faith
Scientists who dissent are especially despised and persecuted because global warming is supposedly based on science and thus scientist’s who dissent are a special threat to the faith.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty · Politics · Science
Climate Realism and Socialist Realism
The U.S. Department of Energy has a plan to reduce the cost of solar power by a factor of 4 by 2020 with the hope that solar would increase from .05% of our power to 14% by 2030. The motivation is, of course, to reduce emissions of CO2. This is Climate Realism, very similar to Socialist Realism.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Science
Drowning in Sea Level Nonsense
The notion of the seas rising, swamping coastal cities, and creating havoc is the stuff of science fiction, not science.
NEWS: The Heartlander- Low Oil Prices Boost Economy March 2, 2015
- Naomi Oreskes Warps Climate Skeptic History March 2, 2015
- Florida Liberals, Conservatives Team Up for Solar February 27, 2015
- Sierra Club Misrepresents Itself Before New Mexico Legislature February 27, 2015
- U.N. Climate Chief Resigns amid Sex Scandal February 27, 2015
Heartland on YouTube
The Climate Change Awards
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- Government Tells Gruber Lie to the Supreme Court
- From Internet to Obamanet
- NYT Smears Scientist Willie Soon for Telling the Truth About 'Global Warming' - Breitbart
- FCC's Net Neutrality Proposal Signals the End of an Open Internet - US News
- Update on the New York Times/Ron Fournier Epic Fail
- Jon Stewart Was Never A Newsman
- Here Are The 'Science' Questions Reporters Should Ask Politicians
