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 111 Episodes
Trump’s Climate Cabinet - The Climate Realism Show #141
Senate committee rooms on Capitol Hill were buzzing with activity this week as many of President Trump’s picks for cabinet posts were underway. Three of the key hearin...
LA Fires NOT Caused by Climate Change
Historic wildfires have destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in Los Angeles County. Many homes of the rich and famous in Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and Pasadena...
Biden’s Green Programs Fraudulent, Wasteful, and Abusive
Join us for a hard-hitting discussion with Dr. Sterling Burnett, director of the Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy at The Heartland Institute, as he ...
Human CO2 Emissions Are a GOOD THING - The Climate Realism Show #139
It’s a fact that humans are increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But does it follow, as we’re constantly told, that this increasing of CO2...
H. Sterling Burnett on Climate Policy and America's Energy Future
In this episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Karen Schoen is joined by H. Sterling Burnett, Director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental P...
Is Elon Musk Now a Climate Realist? - The Climate Realism Show #138
Elon Musk’s latest fortune was built on his Tesla electric vehicles, helped in no small measure by federal tax credits so more people could afford to buy the luxury it...
Top 10 Energy Priorities for America's Future
Join Sterling Burnett of The Heartland Institute as he delves into the critical intersection of climate policy and energy independence. This three-part series examines...
EPA’s Big Green Money Scam
The investigative journalists at Project Veritas have a new scoop. President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency is reacting to soon losing power by shoveling tens...
COP 29: Inside the Disaster in Baku - The Climate Realism Show #136
The latest annual United Nations climate conference, COP29, is about to wrap up in Baku, Azerbaijan – the second year in a row it has been held in a “petro state.” Add...
Maple Syrup and Hot Air: Debunking Canada’s Climate Hype – The Climate Realism Show #135
While the political tide has shifted right in the United States – and away from the climate alarmist agenda – our neighbors to the north are still currently all-in for...
Trump Causes Climate Activists to Melt Down - The Climate Realism Show #134
Donald Trump’s massive landslide victory in Tuesday’s presidential election has climate activists around the world melting down. Trump called measures to control clima...
"Not So Fast," on Coal Closures, Its Still Vital To America (Guest: Matt Mackowiak)
"Not So Fast," is a campaign to make it obvious to the general public, regulators, and legislators alike that coal still plays a vital role to play in the U.S. electri...
Climate Change Policies, Killing the American Dream
Climate change policy is often framed as a challenge to personal freedoms and choices, especially when policies seem to impose strict limits on individuals’ lifestyles...
Rhetoric and Reality - The Politics of Climate Change
The whole world seems to be nervously awaiting the outcome of the presidential election, which is just 10 days away — perhaps no group more than the global climate cab...
Climate Alarmist Education - The Climate Realism Show #131
America’s educational system used to cover the “three Rs” — reading, writing, and ’rithmetic – but that has long been abandoned from elementary school through college ...
Breaking Down Hurricane Milton - The Climate Realism Show #130
After a slow start to the 2024 Hurricane Season, it seems like Mother Nature wants to make up for lost time. First Helene hit the Florida Panhandle and caused a disast...
The Aftermath and Myths of Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene will go down as one of the most-significant natural disasters (so far) in US History, and certainly of the 21st century. While the Florida panhandle w...
It’s Climate Week in NYC - The Climate Realism Show #128
It’s climate week in New York City, yet another expensive and carbon-intensive gathering of global chicken littles clucking about the end of the world. More than 6,000...
Microsoft to Reopen 3-Mile Island Nuclear Plant - In The Tank #466
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, and H. Sterling Burnett present episode 466 of the In The Tank Podcast. Surprising news dropped earli...
Trump Looms Over COP 29 - The Climate Realism Show #127
The United Nations' climate confab (COP 29) in Azerbaijan, of all places, will convene less than a week after America's presidential election. It will be pretty glum g...
Debate Prep for Trump on Climate
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will have their first and probably only debate on Tuesday. Climate is likely to come up as a debate topic, after not being emphasized fo...
Hurricane Season 2024: Were the predictions wrong again?
NOAA and other forecasters predicted the 2024 hurricane season would be among the most active in decades. Professional climate alarmist Michael Mann said human-caused ...
The Real Costs of Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Heartland's H. Sterling Burnett was recently a guest on the Jeanne Ives Podcast. They discussed the recent announcement by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, who touted ...
The Great British Energy Company – The Climate Realism Show #122
The new Labour government in the UK wants to set up the “Great British Energy Company,” supposedly the answer to all of that country’s green energy dreams. But Heartla...
Debunking Climate Myths
Heartland's H. Sterling Burnett was a guest on the Point of View Podcast. They discussed the accuracy of temperature measurements and the role of urban heat islands, t...
'Green' Olympics Make Athletes See Red – The Climate Realism Show #121
The Paris Olympics are underway, and it pledged to be the “greenest” games ever. No air-conditioned dorms. Bed frames made of recycled cardboard. An emphasis on plant-...
Kamala Harris Is Even More Radical on Climate than Joe Biden
With Joe Biden handing off the presidency to "a new generation" in Kamala Harris, her record and public statements shows she is even more radical on environment and en...
DEI Is Destroying Education, Sports, Military, and Our Way of Life
Climate change is a topic the Globalists have chosen to exploit. By teaching junk science brought to us by computer models, these liars have our population believing t...
Climate Policy at the GOP Convention: What a Second Trump Term Could Look Like
As the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee comes to a close, we look at the climate and energy platform of the party. Do they differ from Trump’s first-term ag...
Climate Lawfare Heats Up
The weather is heating up, and so is the "climate lawfare" radicals are using to impose draconian policies that would impoverish the masses, and even put some people i...
