Huntsman Rejects ‘Unilateral Disarmament’ to Combat Global Warming
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman clarified his position on how policymakers should deal with climate change. In a speech Tuesday at The Heritage Foundation he… Read More
Climategate II: New Leaked Emails Cast Doubt on Climate Change
Another round of leaked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s (UEA) Climatic Research Unit have surfaced, once again illustrating why governments should not be… Read More
If IPCC Sea Level Numbers Aren’t Bad Enough, Try Tripling Them
A recent study authored by Mark Crowell of the Federal Emergency Management Agency estimates that in the U.S., climate change will increase the area subject… Read More
In Australia’s Misguided Carbon Tax, a Warning for the U.S.
On Sunday, the government of Australia announced that it will implement a US$24.74 per-metric-ton tax on carbon emissions. The damage the tax is expected to… Read More
Al Roker Should Join the Rest of His Colleagues on Climate Change
As we mourn the human toll taken by the tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, some are using the disaster as an opportunity to warn about… Read More
We Need a Real Fix to the EPA’s CO2 Power Grab
The Senate is expected to vote today on several amendments that would affect the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) and… Read More
EnergyNews
The Left’s War on Science Continues
There is no limit to the amount of distortion the enviro-left is willing to deploy to accomplish their policy goals. Last month, the Obama Commerce… Read More
Defunding EPA’s Ability to Regulate CO2
Last Friday, House Republicans re-introduced legislation that would fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2011. This iteration included deeper cuts that… Read More
Two-Year Delay on EPA Climate Regs Is No Solution
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) endangerment finding gives the agency justification to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, most notably carbon dioxide (CO2), under the Clean Air… Read More
Napolitano Makes Global Warming a Homeland Security Priority
There she goes again. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano just can’t speak in public without destroying any remaining confidence Americans have left in her agency. CNS… Read More
EPA Can’t Regulate Volcanoes or China
An ongoing study in Yellowstone National Park seeks to measure the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a response to geologic activity and as a… Read More
Guest Blogger Roger Helmer MEP: Climate Conference Set to Crash and Burn?
I’m here at the UN’s Cancun Climate Conference—or COP16 (Conference of the Parties) in the jargon. The last two COPs in Poznan (2008) and Copenhagen… Read More
Why Is the Obama Administration in Cancun?
Last year at this time, the United Nations was coming to grips with the fact that the Copenhagen climate change summit would not produce a… Read More
Cancun Climate Change Conference: Less Hype, Same Obstacles
International climate change talks kick off yesterday in Cancun, Mexico, and the expectations aren’t nearly as high as they were last year at the summit… Read More
Climate Change Is Still About Chinese Coal
The climate change conference starting in Cancun Monday is doomed to failure. Many factors contribute to this, such as a healthy skepticism about how much… Read More
Polar Bears Have Something to Be Thankful For
What is the Obama Administration thankful for, or at least hopeful for, this Thanksgiving? That controversial Thanksgiving Eve announcements won’t receive any media attention. While… Read More
EnergyNews
Climate Talks or Wealth Redistribution Talks?
Typically the largest wealth distribution program that occurs in Cancun, Mexico, is college students spending their parents’ money. That could change at the upcoming United… Read More
California Environmental Regulations Based on Myths
When an environmental law or regulation passes in California, it usually comes as a surprise to no one. After all, it’s California. So when the… Read More
$700K Taxpayer-Funded Play on Climate Change
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is “an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 ‘to promote the progress of science; to advance the national… Read More
What’s Scarier Than Cap and Trade? A Renewable Electricity Standard
For the past year, the phrase “cap and trade” was as taboo as using Lord Voldemort’s name in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Wizards… Read More
EPA’s Power Grab Endangers the Economy
Nowhere in the Clean Air Act does the term “greenhouse gas” (GHG) appear, yet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is invoking the statute to… Read More
Bjorn Lomborg’s Non-About Face
Bjorn Lomborg wins a prize for having the most misrepresented position on climate change. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Lomborg reveals he believes… Read More
EPA’s New Rating System Encourages Poor Decisions
The EPA recently proposed a new grading requirement for new car stickers. The A–D grading system would rank cars according to their fuel efficiency and… Read More
The 2010 National Security Strategy, By the Numbers
In the three months since President Barack Obama released his first National Security Strategy (NSS), the news has been dominated by his responses to domestic… Read More
The Left Wants You to Sweat
What would you do if the government forced you to turn off your air conditioning? Could you still live where you live or work where… Read More
UK Climategate Investigation Conclusion: Hiding the Decline was “Misleading”
Many in the mainstream media are attempting to portray The Independent Climate Change E-mails Review, just released in the UK, as exonerating the researchers. In… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama’s Oil Spill To-Do List
The oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico gets worse by the day. Oil spews from the broken well, further polluting our water and… Read More
Glacier Melting not from Climate Change?
New evidence on the melting Pine Island Glacier (PIG), one of the melting Antarctic glaciers that some scientists feel may pose a threat to sea… Read More
$7-a-Gallon Gas?
President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas. That’s a Harvard University study’s estimate of the per-gallon price of the president’s… Read More
Sea Level Rises…What Sea Level Rises?
Another one of the standout presentations at the Heartland Institute’s fourth International Conference on Climate Change was the one by Nils-Axel Morner, former emeritus head… Read More
