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10 Questions Climate Doomers Can't or Won't Answer

Environment and Climate News Podcast - July 08, 2024 15:29 - 1 hour ★★★ - 156 ratings
Have you ever noticed that when it comes to inconvenient hard facts, climate alarmists either revert to calling you a shill for big oil, or block you because they don’t have the skills or the knowledge to refute your factual challenge? Well, we’ve got a list of 10 very inconvenient que...

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Climate Alarmist Messaging Decoded: Lies Work

Environment and Climate News Podcast - July 01, 2024 14:09 - 1 hour ★★★ - 156 ratings
A very telling exposé of a meeting between leading "climate communicators" appeared on Twitter last week. In it, pictures of a slideshow mentioned things like: "Worst messages tested: electric cars, Green New Deal, frontline communities, 'Big Oil lied', and climate pollution." Essential...

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Heatwave Alarm Season is Here, Same Old Climate Claims, Different Year – The Climate Realism Show #114

Environment and Climate News Podcast - June 14, 2024 19:24 - 1 hour ★★★ - 156 ratings
Yes, it’s that time again kids, panic the American people over heat waves by blaming them on climate change.This past week several news outlets talked about the “Western Heat Wave” and tried to link it to “climate change.” Climate Central was the source of most of these stories with a p...

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Creation of "chief heat officers" in Arizona

Environment and Climate News Podcast - June 11, 2024 16:03 - 33 minutes ★★★ - 156 ratings
Phoenix is hiring a "Chief Heat Officer," in response to rising heat related deaths, which the city blames on climate change. The truth is most of those dying are homeless or drug addicts with underlying health conditions, people already in poor health. As far as Phoenix's heat, that is...

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Attacks on Actual Temperature Data – The Climate Realism Show #113 (Guest: Tony Heller)

Environment and Climate News Podcast - June 08, 2024 00:49 - 1 hour ★★★ - 156 ratings
The Heartland Institute has issued a report exposing the US government’s official land-based temperature stations as hopelessly corrupt and compromised. The study, conducted by Heartland Senior Fellow Anthony Watts – an update on a previous examination of temperature stations in 2009 – ...

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Hurricane Season Begins: Bigger and Badder? - The Climate Realism Show #112

Environment and Climate News Podcast - May 31, 2024 21:49 - 1 hour ★★★ - 156 ratings
Hurricane Season 2024 officially kicks off Saturday, June 1 and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts a more-active-than-normal season in the Atlantic. The agency is “85% certain” that we’ll have 17-25 named storms, 8-13 hurricanes, and 4-7 major hurricanes...

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Climate at a Glance Videos Hit Social Media Near You: Linnea Lueken

Environment and Climate News Podcast - May 29, 2024 17:52 - 13 minutes ★★★ - 156 ratings
In the new Climate at a Glance video series various climate crisis claims are debunked by Linnea Lueken in an eminently watchable, short, fact filled format. The goal is to reach younger audiences, being mislead on social media about climate change, with quick climate facts. The video's...

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Biden Climate Rules Onslaught: Coming to a Household Near You - The Climate Realism Show #111

Environment and Climate News Podcast - May 24, 2024 21:46 - 1 hour ★★★ - 156 ratings
On episode 111 of The Climate Realism Show, we review many of the eco policies that amount to Biden's war on homeowners and the citizenry for the sake of "saving the planet" from climate change.We'll be discussing the Biden power plant rule, auto emissions rule, new ESA restrictions in ...

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Climate and Energy-the Case for Realism: David Legates, Ph.D.

Environment and Climate News Podcast - May 20, 2024 14:11 - 24 minutes ★★★ - 156 ratings
In his new co-authored anthology, Climate and Energy: The Case for Realism, climatologist David Legates gathers assembles some of the best scientists, economists and analysts on climate change today to stake out a middle ground between extreme climate alarm, and the other extreme of peo...

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CLIMATE CULT COLLAPSE - The People and the Market Speak Their Mind

Environment and Climate News Podcast - May 10, 2024 20:24 - 1 hour ★★★ - 156 ratings
On episode 109 of The Climate Realism Show, we look at two recent polls that show climate change opinion is sharply waning in its perception as a threat to the public. At the same time, ESG funds have essentially collapsed as investors pull their money. Joining us to discuss these issu...

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Saving Whales from Wind Projects in the Atlantic Ocean

Environment and Climate News Podcast - May 09, 2024 20:00 - 9 minutes ★★★ - 156 ratings
The other day, H. Sterling Burnett, director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy at The Heartland Institute, was a guest on the Steve Gruber Show. He was invited back on the program to talk about the effort by The Heartland Institute and others to stop ...

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At Last, a Real Debate: The Duel of the Theories on Global Warming - The Climate Realism Show #108

Environment and Climate News Podcast - May 03, 2024 21:10 - 1 hour ★★★ - 156 ratings
On episode 108 of The Climate Realism Show, special guest James Taylor, president of The Heartland Institute and the founding director of Heartland’s Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy, presents data refuting multiple climate change myths. James recently took...

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The Folly of Wind and Solar to Power Pennsylvania

Environment and Climate News Podcast - May 02, 2024 22:58 - 19 minutes ★★★ - 156 ratings
The other day H. Sterling Burnett, director of The Heartland Institute's Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy was a guest on The John Steigerwald Show on AM1250 The Answer in Pittsburgh. Sterling is a frequent guest on that excellent program, and was asked on t...

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Climate and Energy: The Case for Realism – The Climate Realism Show #105

Environment and Climate News Podcast - April 12, 2024 19:04 - 1 hour ★★★ - 156 ratings
On episode 105 of The Climate Realism Show, we talk to E. Calvin Beisner, co-editor (along with David Legates) of the new book “Climate and Energy: The Case For Realism.” The book combines outstanding climate science, physics, economics, environmental science, political science, ethics,...

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Save the Whales, Kill the Turbines – The Climate Realism Show #104

Environment and Climate News Podcast - April 05, 2024 22:42 - 1 hour ★★★ - 156 ratings
On episode 104 of The Climate Realism Show, we explain that to save the whales we need to kill these growing large-scale offshore wind projects. These so-called “wind farms” are much larger and do much more environmental damage than most people realize. Covering an area the size of Conn...

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Renewable Power Costs More and Delivers Less

Environment and Climate News Podcast - March 28, 2024 19:24 - 30 minutes ★★★ - 156 ratings
In this enlightening episode, Isaac Orr from the Center of the American Experiment delves into the complexities of renewable energy and its impact on power grids across the United States. Orr argues for a reevaluation of what we consider 'renewable' energy, arguing the term 'renewable' ...

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Climate: The Movie - The Climate Realism Show #103

Environment and Climate News Podcast - March 22, 2024 19:21 - 1 hour ★★★ - 156 ratings
Climate Change Roundtable is now The Climate Realism Show. The same great climate news and analysis from The Heartland Institute’s world-class climate and energy experts, but a snazzy new name that gets right to the heart of what it is about. On episode 103 of The Climate Realism Show,...

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Climatosis, Fossil Fueds, & Missy's Twitch (Guest: Jon Pepper)

Environment and Climate News Podcast - March 20, 2024 20:49 - 48 minutes ★★★ - 156 ratings
Businessman and author Jon Pepper has written a series of books that explores the trials and tribulations of the energy industry in a highly politicized age, the newest of which, "Missy's Twitch," explores a young woman's passage from indoctrination and climate alarm induced spasms, to ...

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Climatosis, Fossil Feuds, & Missy's Twitch (Guest: Jon Pepper)

Environment and Climate News Podcast - March 20, 2024 20:49 - 48 minutes ★★★ - 156 ratings
Businessman and author Jon Pepper has written a series of books that explores the trials and tribulations of the energy industry in a highly politicized age, the newest of which, "Missy's Twitch," explores a young woman's passage from indoctrination and climate alarm induced spasms, to ...

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Electric Planes, Trains, and Automobiles - The Climate Realism Show #101

Environment and Climate News Podcast - March 13, 2024 12:21 - 54 minutes ★★★ - 156 ratings
Climate Change Roundtable is now The Climate Realism Show. The same great climate news and analysis from The Heartland Institute's world-class climate and energy experts, but a snazzy new name that gets right to the heart of what it is about. On episode 101 of The Climate Realism Show,...

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ESG On The Out?

Environment and Climate News Podcast - March 07, 2024 17:23 - 1 hour ★★★ - 156 ratings
Climate Change Roundtable is now The Climate Realism Show. The same great climate news and analysis from The Heartland Institute's world-class climate and energy experts, but a snazzy new name that gets right to the heart of what it is about. On episode 100 of The Climate Realism Show,...

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Climate Science Is Being Subverted By Poor Metrics and the Pursuit of Consensus (Guest: Matthew Wielicki, Ph.D.)

Environment and Climate News Podcast - March 05, 2024 22:59 - 43 minutes ★★★ - 156 ratings
Dr. Matthew Wielicki has had a heck of a year, voluntarily leaving academia when he found the pursuit and promotion of knowledge was being subverted by an effort to enforce consensus on researchers. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of climate change. He now refers to himse...

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States Have Granted Big Banks the Right to Seize Your Property

Environment and Climate News Podcast - March 01, 2024 22:00 - 33 minutes ★★★ - 156 ratings
A recent study by Jack McPherrin from Heartland explores how state legislatures, in adopting provisions of the Universal Commercial Code, have enabled "too big to fail" banks to seize the private retirement accounts of both individuals and institutional investors during times of crisis....

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The SEC Lacks Authority to Mandate Climate Concern (Guest: Stone Washington)

Environment and Climate News Podcast - February 12, 2024 21:49 - 33 minutes ★★★ - 156 ratings
The Securities and Exchange Commission is trying to become a climate regulator. It has proposed forcing companies under its regulatory purview, and even those outside of its direct authority, to take climate change seriously. The proposals would force SEC regulated companies, and those ...

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Mann vs. Steyn: A Disgrace to the Profession – Climate Change Roundtable #97

Environment and Climate News Podcast - February 09, 2024 21:41 - 1 hour ★★★ - 156 ratings
The Climate Trial of the Century is over, and the result is an absolutely travesty of justice. A D.C. jury ruled yesterday that Mark Steyn must pay $1 in compensatory damages and an absurd $1 million in punitive damages to climate media star Michael Mann for his claimed defamation. His ...

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Mann vs. Steyn: Climate Trial of the Century Week 3 (Guest: Ann McElhinney)

Environment and Climate News Podcast - February 02, 2024 19:45 - 1 hour ★★★ - 156 ratings
In the third week of the defamation trial in which climate “hockey stick” inventor Michael Mann is suing Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg, Mann rested his case. And now the defense has begun to make its devastating case against the nasty serial litigator in the Climate Trial of the Century. ...

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Mann vs. Steyn: Climate Trial of the Century Continues - Guest: Phelim McAleer on Climate Change Roundtable

Environment and Climate News Podcast - January 26, 2024 19:56 - 1 hour ★★★ - 156 ratings
In the second week of the defamation trial, where serial litigator and special climate snowflake Michael Mann sued Mark Steyn and others for libel, the proceedings featured notable developments and surprising revelations. To discuss, Phelim McAleer, a filmmaker and journalist who is att...

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Climate Trial of the Century: Mann vs Steyn – Climate Change Roundtable #94

Environment and Climate News Podcast - January 19, 2024 21:33 - 1 hour ★★★ - 156 ratings
After 12 years of delays, the defamation lawsuit brought by climate scientist Michael Mann and writer Mark Steyn finally began this week. Mann sued Steyn and others in 2012 claiming they libeled him when they mocked his infamous “hockey stick” graph that has been the lynchpin of climate...

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Biden Wants to Ban Your Favorite Appliances (Guest: Ben Lieberman)

Environment and Climate News Podcast - January 10, 2024 20:28 - 26 minutes ★★★ - 156 ratings
In its obsessive pursuit of carbon dioxide emission reductions without regard to costs or freedom of choice, the Biden administration has conducted a regulatory assault on appliances, limiting consumers choice of appliances in a doomed attempt to control future weather. CEI Senior Fello...

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Fighting For Freedom Against Climate Tyranny (Guest: Daren Bakst)

Environment and Climate News Podcast - January 08, 2024 23:13 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 156 ratings
In this insightful episode of "Environment and Climate News," host H. Sterling Burnett engages with Daren Bakst, the new Director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment. The discussion focuses on CEI's longstanding commitment to challenging government policies that encroach on prope...