A new report from the Heartland Institute warns of the dangers of renewable energy. It offers an interesting insight into the twisted minds of fossil fuel advocates.
The Heartland Institute is sponsoring a rebuttal to the COP 25 meeting this week featuring an elite lineup or highly paid climate deniers. It should be quite a show and it you want to watch live there’s a link included in the following story. Enjoy!
A North State Journal article on Duke Energy and solar was an anti-renewables PR hit piece funded by anti-renewables fossil fuel industry money in an outlet that is a right-wing broadsheet that pretends to have journalist standards. Yet it pretended to be otherwise. That’s the anti-renewables disinformation campaign in a nutshell.
BNEF says renewable energy costs are continuing to fall faster than predicted, making renewable cost competitive with coal and gas power plants. But researchers at the University of Chicago claim renewable energy standards raises the cost of electricity. Both cannot be correct, so which is it?
The Trump maladministration tried to bury the latest National Climate Assessment in the post-Thanksgiving rush to go shopping on Black Friday. If that was the goal, it failed miserably.
Do you have your tickets to the America First Energy Conference sponsored by the Heartland Institute in August? It should be a really hot event on this year’s social calendar for reactionaries of every persuasion. .
In late June, the Heartland Institute’s environment page — on which materials are typically ordered chronologically with new posts at the top — reposted a policy brief from 2014. The proposal? Replacing the EPA with a “Committee of the Whole of the 50 state environmental protection agencies.”
Sun Zsu counselled the value of knowing your enemy more than a thousand years ago. His wisdom is still valid today. Read Jane Mayer’s deeply troubling Dark Money to educate yourself about the enemy we all face today.
If you teach physical science your mailbox may have recently been assaulted by a tract from the Heartland Institute titled “Why scientists disagree about global warming.” The lie in the title is an excellent preview of the book’s contents. Its numerous specific errors mask the fundamental mistake of all these piecemeal attacks on the scientific consensus: lack of a coherent narrative to describe the data.
Today, Pope Francis I has released his first encyclical, Laudato si (Praised be), widely anticipated for its focus on climate change and the links to human poverty and economic development. The world religious leader started off his official pronouncement by quoting the Canticle of Creatures, a favorite hymn composed by St. Francis of … [continued]
