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 121 Episodes
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 en...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Mann vs. Steyn: Climate Trial of the Century Continues - Guest: Phelim McAleer on Climate Change Roundtable #95
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 fea...
Climate Trial of the Century: Mann vs Steyn
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...
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 assaul...
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 Enviro...
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...
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 Linne...
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 Sh...
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...
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 ...
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 doubl...
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,...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 wee...
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 a...
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 chan...
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...
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 k...
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 competiti...
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 ne...
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 Innova...
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 ...
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!Pr...
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 t...
