H. Sterling Burnett
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., hosts The Heartland Institute’s Environment and Climate News podcast. Burnett also is the director of Heartland’s Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy, is the editor of Heartland's Climate Change Weekly email, and oversees the production of the monthly newspaper Environment & Climate News. Prior to joining The Heartland Institute in 2014, Burnett worked at the National Center for Policy Analysis for 18 years, ending his tenure there as senior fellow in charge of environmental policy. He has held various positions in professional and public policy organizations within the field. Burnett is a member of the Environment and Natural Resources Task Force in the Texas Comptroller’s e-Texas commission, served as chairman of the board for the Dallas Woods and Water Conservation Club, is a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, works as an academic advisor for Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, is an advisory board member to the Cornwall Alliance, and is an advisor for the Energy, Natural Resources and Agricultural Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Appears in 140 Episodes
Climate Realism Is HOT in the UK — The Climate Realism Show #174
The media has started to notice that opposition to the “net zero” agenda is fueling a political revolution in Great Britain. POLITICO just ran a hit piece on The Heart...
Britain Cooling on Global Warming — The Climate Realism Show #172
A new poll out of the United Kingdom shows that Brits who think the dangers of global warming are exaggerated and phony has soared by 50 percent compared to four years...
Big Climate Strikes Back — The Climate Realism Show #172
When five independent scientists dared to produce the first U.S. government report to reject the climate alarmist narrative, Big Climate vowed to strike back. And it h...
National Academy of Sciences Goes to War Over CO₂
The EPA is moving to rescind the 2009 “endangerment” finding that declared CO₂ a pollutant—supposedly dangerous to human health, well-being, and the planet. Now that t...
COVID Was the Test Run… Climate Lockdowns Are the Goal (Guest: Matthew Wielicki) — TCRS #170
During COVID, power‑mad government officials around the globe shut down society to protect us from a contagious virus that killed a small percentage of those who got i...
Climate P🌍rn Is Evil – The Climate Realism Show #169
A “1,000-year flood.” The hottest temperatures ever recorded! Wildfires “everywhere.” The legacy media and social platforms can’t stop peddling sensational “climate p0...
The End of Official Climate Alarmism (Guest: Dr. Judith Curry) – The Climate Realism Show #167
CThis is a historic week—historically catastrophic for climate alarmists who have bullied their way through every institution in the United States and around the world...
Climate Realism Violates International Law? – The Climate Realism Show #166
The International Court of Justice at the United Nations this week ruled that failing to take poverty-creating “appropriate action to protect the climate system” — mea...
Trump Team Crushing Media Mid-wits – The Climate Realism Show #168
The two most important members of the Trump administration reversing years of climate alarmism and junk science in public policy have been crushing it in media appeara...
Winning: Gore Fears Climate Realists – The Climate Realism Show #165
Losing the 2000 election was the best thing to happen to Al Gore. He has since become insanely wealthy and admired around the world by peddling climate alarmism. Holly...
Physicists Debunk Net Zero: No Dangerous Warming from CO₂ - The Climate Realism Show #163
Two of the most prestigious physicists in America have written a new paper explaining why greenhouse gases (GHG) produced by human activity — namely carbon dioxide — c...
Surviving the Coming Heat Wave (will be easy) – The Climate Realism Show #162
The corporate climate-alarmist media is already turning up the heat—on your TV, not outside—by hyping a summer warm spell as a “heat dome” threatening “dangerous heat ...
Hurricane Season Preview with guest Stan Goldenberg – The Climate Realism Show #161
Hurricane season has begun, and while it’s quiet so far, what kind of year can we expect? The Heartland Institute welcomes back Stanley Goldenberg—one of America’s lea...
Straight Talk: Climate Q&A Marathon with guest Chris Martz – The Climate Realism Show #160
We get so many great questions in each episode of The Climate Realism Show that we decided to dedicate a whole episode to it. Well, all of it but our coverage of the C...
Climate Realism Gains Ground in Europe – Live from Budapest! - The Climate Realism Show #159
The Heartland Institute and Heartland UK/Europe have been in Poland and Hungary this week, meeting with leaders of the conservative movement and top politicians. Oppos...
Climate and Energy in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill - The Climate Realism Show #158
Donald Trump achieved a major political and policy victory on Thursday when the U.S. House of Representatives passed what he calls his “Big Beautiful Bill.” The less-c...
The Pain in Spain Is Renewably Insane – The Climate Realism Show #155
In mid-April, Spain’s socialist government bragged that, for the first time, the nation was powered by 100 percent “renewable” energy—mostly solar and wind. One week l...
US Exiting the Climate Alarm Cabal — The Climate Realism Show #153
In news that has climate alarmists in an even greater panic, the Trump administration is ending funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the panel that pro...
Checking in on Net Zero in the UK — The Climate Realism Show #152
The Net Zero project in Great Britain, so the country does it’s part to stop climate change, has a true believer behind it in leftist Prime Minister Keir Starmer. But ...
Obama’s Climate Agenda: R.I.P. — The Climate Realism Show #149
The new EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, dropped the Mother of All Bombs this week on the radical environmental agenda that has dominated Washington, DC since the start ...
