Environment and Climate News Podcast

In California, Europe, and beyond the impacts of crazy energy policies they have governments there have imposed are coming home to roost, and its bad for their residents. Yet in an effort to push a Great Reset of the global economy, many governments are doubling down on policies that have created the present energy crisis. It seems rationing and COVID like energy lockdowns are the goal so elites c...

California is leading the charge on misguided energy policies that are both ineffective at protecting the environment and markedly anti-consumer. Other states such as Florida and Texas are doing the opposite, fighting back against energy policies and corporate efforts, such as ESG programs, that hurt residents. Floridians and Texans will benefit while California’s residents watch their energy and...

Global elites at the World Economic Forum are using climate change and ESG efforts to push a great reset of capitalism. This authoritarian push will trample property rights and personal liberties in order to satisfy corporate and government elites concerned with how the world should look. Profit must be replaced by amorphous social and environmental credit scores with everyone assigned a biometric...

The climate was not stagnant before human carbon dioxide emissions. Rather, Earth’s climate is consistently changing across a variety of timescales. It has been warmer and cooler than it is today. There is no evidence we are in the midst of a climate crisis driven by carbon dioxide emissions. Earth’s present warming is similar to the warming experienced during every previous interglacial cycle thr...

The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis joins host Sterling Burnett on today’s episode of Environment & Climate News. Lewis explains why the Democrats’ misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act will likely add to inflation whilst doing nothing to prevent climate change. The main impact of the energy provisions within will be increased energy costs for Americans. Fossi...

Anthony Watts, senior fellow for environment and climate at The Heartland Institute, joins the Chris Berg Show to discuss the mountain of evidence indicating there’s no climate crisis. Watts talks about the inaccuracies that plague climate models. He then discusses how the temperature record is based on flawed data.

A new bombshell report found that 96% of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) temperature stations produce corrupted data due to purposeful placement in man-made hot spots. These stations fail to meet the published standards deemed "acceptable" by NOAA itself. This nationwide study follows up widespread corruption and heat biases found at NOAA stations in 2009, and the heat-b...

The temperature data sets used in official government reports making alarming claims about rapidly rising temperatures and dangerous climate change come from a fatally flawed network of weather stations. More than 96 percent of the stations surveyed fail to meet the National Weather Service’s requirements for quality measurements. As a result, the official temperature record is biased, being more...

After years of appearing as an “expert,” the public knows Al Gore spews false prediction after false prediction on climate change. He then labels those who expose how often he’s wrong as buffoons or terrorists. Gore is using scare stories to profit and gain power, and he’s doing it by trying to terrify the public. H. Sterling Burnett, director of Heartland’s Arthur B. Robinson Center on Environmen...

America's current energy and food crises are not the unintentional results of misguided policies. Rather, the crises are the deliberate result of policies imposed to turn people into serfs, giving global elites more control over peoples' lives. Elites want regular people to beg for ever more government help. Fortunately, the people will eventually wake up. New technology and open markets will resu...

The U.S. Supreme Court's majority ruling in West Virginia vs. EPA blocks prevents the EPA from enacting large-scale restrictions on carbon dioxide production. This is victory for eco-sanity since human CO2 emissions don't control the climate. The ruling is also a big win for the economy since fossil fuels are vital to modern life. More, the SCOTUS ruling upholds Congress’ role in setting major pol...

Heartland Institute President James Taylor was a recent guest on the Shaun Thompson Show on AM 560 The Answer in Chicago. Taylor was invited on the program to talk about the lies of the green energy movement, the truth about climate science, and the Supreme Court ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency has been abusing its regulatory power for far too long.

Fresh off the heels of the Roe vs. Wade decision, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) just neutered the runaway powers the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claimed to have. Referencing the Clean Air Act, the EPA has enacted regulations, fines, and other indirect means to essentially create quasi-legislation outside of the bounds of congress. This power wielded by the EPA was never...

Michelle Stirling of Canada's Friends of Science explains that a decade’s worth of international efforts to end the use of fossil fuels has borne fruit through ESG mandates and similar policies. Crony capitalists reap the benefits while the modern electric grid perishes. Neither laws nor money can change physics, meaning if we want to improve the lot of the world’s poor and maintain our own standa...

In his new book Unsettled, Physicist Steven E. Koonin, Undersecretary for Science in the US Department of Energy under President Barack Obama, explains how climate research is being undermined and mispresented. Our current state of knowledge about the climate and human influences indicates there is no climate crisis.  Hurricanes, tornados, heat waves, and droughts are not getting worse and deaths...

Texas politicians and regulators interference in energy markets resulted in the closure of baseload bearing coal fueled power plants and the rise of intermittent wind and solar energy. This contributed to Texas' energy collapse during the polar vortex. Wind and solar failed just as the state's power system needed them the most. Energy subsidies made wind and solar seem cheap and drove coal and som...

Joe Biden, the corporate media, and Hollywood elites claim climate change is an existential crisis threating humanity. At the same time, many of these proponents of catastrophic global warming fly across the globe in private jets. H. Sterling Burnett joins The Chosen Generation radio show to discuss climate science, energy generation, and what the Biden administration should do.

The Trump administration lifted the United States into energy independence. The Biden administration's green energy agenda requires critical minerals to function that can only be produced through mining. Yet, Biden opposes mining for these minerals. Because China dominates the markets for these minerals, the U.S. will become dependent on communist China for our energy and technology needs under Bi...

PR firms are collaborating with liberal foundations and green energy profiteers to push ever greater amounts of wind and solar power use in the states. They are using "astroturf" organizations, front group's pretending to be conservative organizations to lobby county boards and state legislators to approve more wind and solar power. As more wind and solar power are added to the electric power grid...

Joe Biden's energy and climate plans are based on the false assumption that carbon dioxide is destroying the earth. This is "a delusion,” as are Biden and his team's plans to precipitously end the use of fossil fuels. Biden and company's plans, if completed, will lead to “nationwide blackouts,” and will crash the economy. Thankfully, the plans are so radical, all Biden and the Democrats are really...

The prominent medical journal The Lancet recently published an article which falsely claimed climate change was harming human health. Lord Christopher Monckton responded to that article citing copious research showing, in fact, a slightly warmer world is a boon for human health, with premature deaths related to weather and natural disasters falling dramatically over the past century. The Lancet is...

The United States is now officially out of the Paris climate agreement, but Joe Biden has promised, if he is ultimately declared the President, to get us back in.  If President Trump submits the Paris agreement to the Senate for consideration as a treaty, it would go nowhere, either being rejected outright or pigeonholed awaiting a vote. Absent the Paris climate agreement, it would be harder for B...

Recently released, Climate Change: The Facts 2020 is the definitive guide to the latest international research and analysis on climate change science and policy. Twenty experts in their field from across five countries have written original contributions on the key issues of scientific, political, and public debate about climate change. In this podcast, Heartland Institute Senior Fellow for Enviro...

The so-called "existential threat" of human-caused climate change is frequently used by the left to promote socialism. In this episode of "Stopping Socialism TV," Justin Haskins and Donald Kendal will reveal the truth about climate change and the motives of those who constantly use it as a primary justification for expanding the power of government. For more great content, visit the Stopping Socia...

The House has passed a 900-page energy bill and the Senate is considering a 600-page bill that would throw billions of dollars at pork barrel projects. No one in Congress has read these bills in their entirety, as usual, and much is written by special interest groups. Each bill would, for the first time ever, establish a national mandate for wind and solar power production by 2025, and for the fir...