Environment and Climate News Podcast

By The Heartland Institute

What's Environment and Climate News Podcast about?

The Heartland Institute podcast featuring scientists, authors, and policy experts who take the non-alarmist, climate-realist position on environment and energy policy.

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Environment and Climate News Podcast episodes:

04.12.2024
Climate and Energy: The Case for Realism – The Climate Realism Show #105
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,...
04.05.2024
Save the Whales, Kill the Turbines – The Climate Realism Show #104
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...
03.28.2024
Renewable Power Costs More and Delivers Less
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'...
03.22.2024
Climate: The Movie - The Climate Realism Show #103
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...
03.20.2024
Climatosis, Fossil Feuds, & Missy's Twitch (Guest: Jon Pepper)
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...
03.13.2024
Electric Planes, Trains, and Automobiles - The Climate Realism Show #101
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...
03.07.2024
ESG On The Out?
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...
03.05.2024
Climate Science Is Being Subverted By Poor Metrics and the Pursuit of Consensus (Guest: Matthew Wielicki, Ph.D.)
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...
03.01.2024
States Have Granted Big Banks the Right to Seize Your Property
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...
02.12.2024
The SEC Lacks Authority to Mandate Climate Concern (Guest: Stone Washington)
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...
02.09.2024
Mann vs. Steyn: A Disgrace to the Profession – Climate Change Roundtable #97
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...
02.02.2024
Mann vs. Steyn: Climate Trial of the Century Week 3 (Guest: Ann McElhinney)
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...
01.26.2024
Mann vs. Steyn: Climate Trial of the Century Continues - Guest: Phelim McAleer on Climate Change Roundtable
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...
01.19.2024
Climate Trial of the Century: Mann vs Steyn – Climate Change Roundtable #94
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”...
01.10.2024
Biden Wants to Ban Your Favorite Appliances (Guest: Ben Lieberman)
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....
01.08.2024
Fighting For Freedom Against Climate Tyranny (Guest: Daren Bakst)
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...
01.05.2024
A Year of Climate Alarmism: Sliced, Diced, and Factually Impaled
In this new episode #92 of "Climate Change Roundtable," host Anthony Watts leads a thought-provoking discussion with Heartland experts H. Sterling Burnett, and Linnea Lueken. This past year has been an unrelenting year of climate alarmism, yet when you look...
12.06.2023
Climate Change Roundtable: Cops & Robbers pt. II
In the new episode of "Climate Change Roundtable," guest host Jim Lakely leads a thought-provoking discussion with experts Steve Milloy, H. Sterling Burnett, and Linnea Lueken on the latest developments from the COP28 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Our panel...
11.29.2023
UN Climate Conference Czars: You Need to Eat a Lot Less Meat
The other day, H. Sterling Burnett, director of The Heartland Institute’s Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy, was on the John Steigerwald Show on AM1250 The Answer in Pittsburgh. He was invited on to talk about how...
11.28.2023
Alarmists Continue to Hurt the Environment
Back in 2010, Fracking wasn’t as prevalent as today. More, climate alarmists were pushing hard to prevent it from ever taking off. A decade later, fracking didn’t have the dire consequences that alarmists claimed it would have. H. Sterling Burnett...
11.27.2023
Is EU Climate Madness and the Netherlands' War on Farmers Coming to America?
Europe is much farther down the climate alarm rabbit hole than the United States is. Specifically, the Netherlands climate goals have come increasingly at the expense of farmers. The policies have ended generations of family farms in one of Europe's...
11.20.2023
The Truth About Electric Vehicles and a High Carbon Lifestyle (Guest: The Hon. Jason Isaac)
Electric vehicles cost much more than most people realize, with many costs borne by taxpayers and ratepayers hidden from public view. The true cost can be almost double the sticker prices when subsidies for electric charging and fuel economy credits...
11.17.2023
National Climate Report #5: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
This week on "Climate Change Roundtable," host Anthony Watts and panelist H. Sterling Burnett will delve into the big report issued by the Biden Administration - NCA5, or the National Climate Assessment #5. The media went ballistic over this report,...
11.14.2023
The Urban Heat Island Effect - Dramatic New Findings With Dr. Roy Spencer
This week on "Climate Change Roundtable," host Anthony Watts and panelists Linnea Lueken and H. Sterling Burnett will discuss the the big white elephant in the climate room: urban heat islands (UHI), a significant but often overlooked topic in climate...
11.08.2023
Debunking Persistent Myths About Hydraulic Fracturing
The other day, Heartland Institute Research Fellow for Environment and Energy Policy Linnea Lueken was a guest on the Ron Arquette Show on KRNS radio in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was invited on to talk about a new paper...
11.03.2023
COPs and Robbers: Follow the Money
This week on "Climate Change Roundtable," our trio of host Anthony Watts and panelists Linnea Lueken and H. Sterling Burnett turn their attention to the COP28 Climate Conference set to commence in Dubai on November 30th. To shed further insight...
11.01.2023
The Folly of Electric Vehicles: Heartland's Jim Lakely on the Cut Jib Newsletter Podcast
The other day Heartland Institute Vice President Jim Lakely (that's me) was a guest on the Cut Jib Newsletter Podcast, part of the excellent and must-read Ace of Spades blog. I was invited on by hosts JJ Sefton and CBD,...
10.27.2023
Debunking Way-out Climate Alarmism Videos
This week on Climate Change Roundtable, host Anthony Watts and panelists Linnea Lueken and H. Sterling Burnett debunk a video taking the corporate position on climate change. The video, titled “Climate Change” from the Sci Show channel on YouTube features...
10.21.2023
Hottest Summer Ever? NOT!
On Climate Change Roundtable, we take a stand against selective information portrayal, examining the contexts often omitted in mainstream climate discussions. This week, we’re covering the go-to media hottest ever narrative parroted after every summer. And, we'll have special guest...
10.16.2023
This New Film Challenges the Climate Orthodoxy
Newsmax will soon air a prime time documentary titled "A Climate Conversation," produced with the help of The Heartland Institute. Scheduled for Sunday, October 15th at 8 PM Central Time, this documentary cuts through the alarmist rhetoric and propaganda to...
10.06.2023
Global Food Production vs. "Climate Catastrophe"
This week we look at agriculture, which seems to be constantly under attack as either being a contributor to climate change, or will suffer from predicted climate change catastrophic effects. But, the reality is far different. Despite a modest warming...
09.29.2023
Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure
Think wind, solar, and batteries can replace the hydrocarbon fuels that power our modern industrialized society? Green Breakdown shows why the Net Zero agenda―a forced transition to renewable energy―is costly, dangerous, and destined for failure. Using science, economics, and in-depth...
09.26.2023
The Miseducation of Science Teachers
Recently a prominent science educator, Stanford's Jonathan Osborne, opined that the goal of science is consensus. Science is a process whose goal is the discovery of knowledge, a process which often overturn's consensus. Recently a prominent science educator, Stanford's Jonathan Osborne,...
09.15.2023
The Failure of Peer Review in Climate Science
This episode of Climate Change Roundtable titled, "The failure of peer review: Climate is Beholden to Bullying and Bad Decisions" delves into the shadowy and competitive world of climate journal publications. In this episode, our host, Anthony Watts, and weekly...
09.06.2023
Challenging the Net-Zero Narrative: Steve Goreham on the Perils of Green Energy
This week on Environment & Climate News. Steve Goreham, author of “Green Breakdown,” joins the show. Steve discusses how efforts to fight climate change by going to net-zero carbon dioxide emissions are unnecessary and doomed to fail. The process of...
08.30.2023
Third Parties: The Silent Movers of American Politics (Guest: Dr. Merrill Mathews, Jr.)
In this special episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Sterling Burnett sits down with Dr. Merrill Mathews, Jr., a resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation and a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute. They delve into the often-overlooked...
08.23.2023
Is Biden Going to Declare a Climate Emergency?
The other day, H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., the director of The Heartland Institute's Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy, was a guest on the Cardle & Woolley program on Talk Radio 1370 AM in Austin, Texas. Sterling...
08.19.2023
Biden, Montana, Maui - 'Climate Emergency' Madness Continues With Special Guest Dr. Judith Curry
It has been a crazy week in the climo-sphere. Fires in Maui were blamed on “climate change” by the media, only for them to find out that this wasn’t the case at all! President Joe Biden, after having a disastrous...
08.15.2023
Humans to Blame for Hawaii Fires, but Not How You Think
The other day, Heartland's H. Sterling Burnett was a guest on the John Steigerwald Show on AM1250 The Answer in Pittsburgh. Sterling was on at the top of the program to talk about how climate alarmists are blaming the devastating...
08.11.2023
Climate Emergency Declaration? Here Come Climate Lockdowns - Climate Change Roundtable #75
President Joe Biden and the UN are likely to declare an “official” global climate emergency next week. All the signs are there. The chatter, and the behind the scenes maneuvering. The UN’s website now has a climate emergency page. Biden...
08.05.2023
Climate Lockdowns: The British Change Their Stance
In this episode of Climate Change Roundtable, we head across the pond to the UK to look at the results of a joint poll conducted by YouGov, CAR26, and The Heartland Institute. According to the most recent results, there has...
07.29.2023
Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response: (Guest: Judith Curry, Ph.D.)
In her book, Climate Uncertainty and Risk, Dr. Judith Curry describes how the climate science community has been captured by certain points of view concerning society and the desire for consensus, undermining its pursuit of objective facts. Climate change claims...
07.25.2023
Hottest Day in 120,000 Years? That's a Joke, Right?
Is a day this July the hottest day in 120,000 years? Of course not. Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Anthony Watts was a guest this week on KTRH Radio, Houston's Morning News with Sharon and Jim to debunk that ridiculous claim....
07.18.2023
The Frozen Climate Views of the IPCC (Guest: Andy May)
In its new critical review, the Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL) found many problems with the IPCC's AR6 report on climate change. The IPCC made numerous false assumptions and flawed assessments, all the while ignoring key facts. The IPCC erred in...
07.10.2023
UN Plans 'Climate Power Grab' Over U.S.
This week we learned from Heartland's Justin Haskins that the U.N. is planning to seize global ‘emergency’ powers with Biden’s support. In the article, Haskins makes it clear that a so-called "climate emergency" or "climate crisis" will be one of...
07.03.2023
CLIMATE UNCERTAINTY and RISK: An Interview With Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry
Recently, respected climatologist Dr. Judith Curry published a new book, "Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response." This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are facing, and how we can respond to these challenges. Understanding...
06.23.2023
Sticking It to the Mann - A Pushback on Climate "Scientist" Dr. Michael Mann
Recently, hockey stick creator Dr. Michael Mann went on CBC to try linking wildfires and climate change, and the result was laughable. We'll give Mann the attention he craves with a thorough look into the decades of misdirection, ad-hominem attacks,...
06.16.2023
El Niño and the Coming Climate Madness
By making the official proclamation that El Niño has begun, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) just sent the corporate media into a flurry of doomsday predictions. Who’s fault is it? Ours of course. We blew past the so...
06.09.2023
Wildfire... Is Climate Change to Blame?
During the past week, both the mainstream media and politicians chose to push a false narrative in response to the presence of smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketing New York City. In a predictable manner, they attributed this event to climate...
06.05.2023
Rights Reclaimed: The Sackett v. EPA Triumph for Property Rights & Small Government
The Supreme Court ruling in the United States' case of Sackett v. EPA has emerged as a pivotal decision, significantly impacting individual liberty, the constitutional balance of power, and the containment of the regulatory state for the first time in...

What's Environment and Climate News Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Environment and Climate News Podcast episodes:

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

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

Renewable Power Costs More and Delivers Less

Climate: The Movie - The Climate Realism Show #103

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

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

ESG On The Out?

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

States Have Granted Big Banks the Right to Seize Your Property

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Year of Climate Alarmism: Sliced, Diced, and Factually Impaled

Climate Change Roundtable: Cops & Robbers pt. II

UN Climate Conference Czars: You Need to Eat a Lot Less Meat

Alarmists Continue to Hurt the Environment

Is EU Climate Madness and the Netherlands' War on Farmers Coming to America?

The Truth About Electric Vehicles and a High Carbon Lifestyle (Guest: The Hon. Jason Isaac)

National Climate Report #5: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

The Urban Heat Island Effect - Dramatic New Findings With Dr. Roy Spencer

Debunking Persistent Myths About Hydraulic Fracturing

COPs and Robbers: Follow the Money

The Folly of Electric Vehicles: Heartland's Jim Lakely on the Cut Jib Newsletter Podcast

Debunking Way-out Climate Alarmism Videos

Hottest Summer Ever? NOT!

This New Film Challenges the Climate Orthodoxy

Global Food Production vs. "Climate Catastrophe"

Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure

The Miseducation of Science Teachers

The Failure of Peer Review in Climate Science

Challenging the Net-Zero Narrative: Steve Goreham on the Perils of Green Energy

Third Parties: The Silent Movers of American Politics (Guest: Dr. Merrill Mathews, Jr.)

Is Biden Going to Declare a Climate Emergency?

Biden, Montana, Maui - 'Climate Emergency' Madness Continues With Special Guest Dr. Judith Curry

Humans to Blame for Hawaii Fires, but Not How You Think

Climate Emergency Declaration? Here Come Climate Lockdowns - Climate Change Roundtable #75

Climate Lockdowns: The British Change Their Stance

Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response: (Guest: Judith Curry, Ph.D.)

Hottest Day in 120,000 Years? That's a Joke, Right?

The Frozen Climate Views of the IPCC (Guest: Andy May)

UN Plans 'Climate Power Grab' Over U.S.

CLIMATE UNCERTAINTY and RISK: An Interview With Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry

Sticking It to the Mann - A Pushback on Climate "Scientist" Dr. Michael Mann

El Niño and the Coming Climate Madness

Wildfire... Is Climate Change to Blame?

Rights Reclaimed: The Sackett v. EPA Triumph for Property Rights & Small Government