As The Heartland Institute is getting ready for our big climate conference in Las Vegas October 15-17 (ICCC-14), we wanted to offer you some sneak previews of what the program will look like. And how better to do that than to invite our speakers to give previews of the presentations they are preparing?

In our fifth in this series, broadcast LIVE on YouTube Thursday, July 15, Amy Oliver Cooke, Chief Executive Officer of the John Locke Foundation, gave a sneak peek of her Las Vegas presentation. In this preview, Cooke will discuss "Want to Go Green? Then You Need to Go Nuclear."

Spoiler alert. If people want low carbon emissions from the electricity sector and still want to live in the 21st century, the affordable, reliable, environmentally friendly way to do it is nuclear power. Period. It’s that simple.

Learn more about the conference at this link.

https://climateconference.heartland.org/

Pennsylvania has been at the forefront of the fracking revolution over the past decade and a half, producing energy that has benefitted the state, the region, and the nation. Despite the fact that fracking has proven safe, PA Gov. Tom Wolf has banned new drilling on state lands, supported decisions to ban production in the Delaware River Basin, and is attempting, through executive action, to force Pennsylvania into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). RGGI has resulted in higher energy prices and lost jobs in every state that joins it. Republicans and the Commonwealth Foundation are fighting Wolf's efforts, defending property rights and economic progress in the process.

The Biden/Harris administration are attempting to remake the U.S. economy in part by forcing all corporations, retirement, and portfolio funds to consider climate risks as fundamental considerations in their business decisions, investments and disclosures. To the detriment people’s retirement funds and investments, the SEC is proposing for considerations of climate risks to trump the pursuit of maximizing returns. Climate risks are uncertain, most businesses' success or failure won't be determined by climate risks, and government has no role in dictating what concerns businesses should account for when making investment decisions.

In this episode of the Heartland Daily Podcast, Senior Fellow for Environment and Climate Anthony Watts explores the possible reasons that the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) "disappeared” historical fire data prior to 1983. Fortunately, the internet never forgets, and the data is still available online. By hiding the data, the NIFC proved that government agencies have an overt agenda to try and show climate change is much worse than it truly is.

Anthony Watts and Richard Sauer, former fire captain in Ventura County, California, also discuss "big money" firefighting and climate change related to fires.

Read more about the NIFC: climaterealism.com/2021/05/nationa…-wildfire-data/

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 related to extreme weather events are declining. The public doesn't know this because prominent research bodies, some individual scientists, the press, environmental lobbyists, and politicians are ignoring uncertainties and mispresenting what climate research shows in order to persuade the public that we face a climate crisis. Misrepresenting climate science undermines science itself and democracy.

If you truly believed the world was about to end because of a climate change catastrophe (a claim not supported by science), how far would you go to convince other people to panic along with you? Well, it turns out the answer to that question for a growing number of environmental activists is more than a little sticky. Stopping Socialism’s Justin Haskins and Donald Kendal break down this insane trend in their latest episode of “Stopping Socialism.”

For more great content, visit the Stopping Socialism TV YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgZeFXOjOCNq7QMgTEKNgJQ

To learn more about socialism, go to StoppingSocialism.com: https://stoppingsocialism.com/

The climate did not change between the Biden and Trump presidencies, yet the mainstream media is increasingly blaming climate change for the illegal immigration border crisis. Contrary to reports, there has been no increase in hurricanes, droughts or crop failures in Central America. Thus, there is no link between extreme weather events and recent immigration. It is the Biden administration's more welcoming policy towards illegal immigrants that is behind the surge in crossings at the southern border.

H. Sterling Burnett joins Merrill Matthews from the Institute for Policy Innovation to discuss the trend.

What type of political, social, economic, or environmental climate would you like to see for the future of America? Personal liberty is best advanced and protected through limited government and free enterprise policies that allow individuals and businesses to prosper. How can free market solutions be applied to solve challenging social and economic problems?

In this episode, Linda J. Hansen interviews James Taylor, President of The Heartland Institute for her Propserity 101 podcast, to discuss topics ranging from climate change to energy policy to free speech. James shares valuable information for all listeners of the Prosperity 101 podcast concerned about freedom in the United States and around the world.

The Green New Deal is not new nor is it green. If imposed, it won't stop climate change, but will change how people are allowed to live. The Green New Deal will replace our Constitutional Republic with rulers from the economic, political, and bureaucratic elites. People will be told where to live, what kind of work they can do, what they can eat, and where they can go.

Higher energy prices are regressive. They have a larger negative impact on the poor and middle class than on the wealthy. President Joe Biden's climate policies are purposefully raising energy prices, thus harming the poor and middle class. In less than a month, Biden has put the United States on the road to energy dependence to foreign countries in Middle East and China due to the fuel and green technologies Biden is pushing. Biden's policies hurt the environment and raise costs for every American. Going further by imposing carbon pricing would further damage the U.S. economy.