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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Roberta Walls: Sand Mining Poses Little Threat to Air and Water Quality
by Isaac Orr August 2, 2016In this edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, research fellow Isaac Orr and Roberta Walls, the point person for industrial sand mining at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, discuss a new document produced by the DNR to educate the general public and decision makers about the environmental, economic, and social impacts of industrial sand mining in the state.
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Environment/Energy
Callous Eco-Imperialists Keeping the Poor Impoverished
by Paul Driessen July 26, 2016We are just now entering the age of industrialization, newly elected President Rodrigo Duterte said recently, explaining why the Philippines will not ratify the Paris climate accords. “Now that we’re developing, you will impose a limit? That’s absurd. It’s being imposed upon us by the industrialized countries. They think they can dictate our destiny.”
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By now, virtually everyone has heard that “97% of scientists agree: Climate change is real, manmade and dangerous.” Even if you weren’t one of his 31 million followers who received this tweet from President Obama, you most assuredly have seen it repeated everywhere as scientific fact.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Misleading Claims About a Climate Crisis in the Arctic Must be Corrected
by Bob Endlich February 10, 2016The January-February 2016 issue of Audubon Magazine (Figure 1) proclaims “Arctic on the Edge: As global warming opens our most critical bird habitat, the world is closing in.” In reality, the magazine’s writers and editors have gone over the edge, with wildly misleading “reports” on the Arctic.