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There is an emerging consensus about the destructiveness of excessive land use regulation, both with respect to its impact on housing affordability but also its overall impacts on economies. This is most evident in a recent New Zealand commentary.

In episode #19 of the In The Tank Podcast, Hosts Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft celebrate the New Year! This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, roundtable discussions, stories, and light-hearted segments on a variety of topics on the latest news. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday.

In episode #18 of the In The Tank Podcast, Hosts Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft celebrate Christmas. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, roundtable discussions, stories, and light-hearted segments on a variety of topics on the latest news. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday.

The Heartland Institute sent a delegation of climate scientists and other expert to Paris in early December to attend the United Nations’ 21st Convention on Climate Change (COP-21), at which time they conducted a counter-conference, held news conferences, and attended official and unofficial events in Paris.

There is no enforcement mechanism in the climate accords drafted at COP21. But not to worry – according to John Kerry, nations will “self-report” and provide assistance to each other, even without having to be accountable to any authority.

In the end, what we apparently got out of Paris is voluntary emission caps, voluntary progress reviews, no international oversight of any voluntary progress, and voluntary contributions to the Fund.

ON A TRAIN SOMEWHERE IN THE BELGIAN COUTRYSIDE – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) embarrassed itself with almost no people showing up for its panel discussion and media event at the United Nations COP21 climate talks in Paris.

Politicians, international bureaucrats, radical environmental activists, and bought-and-paid-for government scientists recently gathered in Paris to shape a climate change treaty less about fighting climate change and more about ensuring the existence of an ongoing flow of big-dollar research grants to researchers and activist organizations and greater control of the world economy for politicians and bureaucrats.

Paris, the City of Light, which earned its moniker by being an early adapter of natural gas to light its public spaces, is currently hosting COP21 (the 21st Conference of the Parties)—often referred to as the UN Climate Change Conference—that aims to end the use of fossil fuels. There, more than 150 world leaders gathered under the guise of, supposedly, slowing the warming of the planet.

Suppose you’ve been using some creative data, accounting and legal interpretations for years to reduce your tax bill – and the IRS suddenly flags you for a full-blown audit. Instead of trembling in your boots, shredding your records, calling a top-flight lawyer, and preparing for an extended jail visit, just do this:

PARIS (December 6) — The Heartland Institute, the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), and members of the “Cooler Heads Coalition” are hosting a one-day event in Paris that will…

PARIS — The UN climate conference was off to a somber start, and to the extent Parisians knew or cared about the conference, their reaction appeared to be one of justifiable outrage rather than sympathetic solidarity.

Today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast is the second part of a two-part edition featuring Christopher Essex, Ph.D., Chairman of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Climate at the World Federation of Scientists, and Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario. Essex joins H. Sterling Burnett, managing editor of Environment & Climate News, to discuss why his work on climate models led him to distrust them.