Jim Lakely
VP @HeartlandInst, EP @InTheTankPod. GET GOV'T OFF OUR BACK! Love liberty, Pens, Steelers, & #H2P. Ex-DC Journo. Amateur baker, garage tinkerer.
Appears in 146 Episodes
SHOCK CLIMATE REPORT! Urban Heat Islands Responsible for 65% of Global Warming — The Climate Realism Show #157
A new study from the University of Alabama in Huntsville addresses the question of how much the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is responsible for the higher temperatur...
"Grok is this true?" - In The Tank #495
The Heartland Institute and Rasmussen just completed another polling study—this one asking people how worried they are about AI and what should be done about it legisl...
71% of Dems Want Elon Imprisoned - In The Tank #474
The Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports released a new poll showing that 71% of Democrats support Elon Musk being IMPRISONED for his DOGE work. This insane posit...
A Critique of the Climate Apocalypse with Dr. Judith Curry — The Climate Realism Show #156
A new paper by Dr. Judith Curry, one of the world’s most prominent scientists skeptical of a looming human-caused climate catastrophe, and economist Harry DeAngelo cau...
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...
War on Normies - In The Tank #493
Spend any time at all watching or reading the news, and you may notice an odd trend in the Democrat party-- they seem to be embracing policies more and more that total...
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 ...
Trump Declares Liberation from Unbalanced Trade: In the Tank #490
Tariffs are the subject of heated debate not just between Democrats and Republicans, but within the spectrum of right wing economic thought as well. Trump has announce...
The Sun and Climate Change (Guest: Dr. Willie Soon) — The Climate Realism Show #151
The scientific community and the media are focused almost exclusively by how greenhouse gas emissions affect the climate — from power plants to automobiles to your fir...
The Rise of the New Right - In The Tank #489
The 2024 election will go down in history as a radical and lasting political realignment in America on the right. The Republican Party of the 80s and 90s is gone, and ...
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 ...
Activists Judges Try to Stop Trump — In the Tank #488
Who actually runs this country? Voters asked for real change in November, and Donald Trump and his team are doing all they can to deliver it as quickly as possible. Ye...
Pulling Back The Media's Veil of Deceit - In The Tank #487
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 487 of the In The Tank Podcast. Former ITT host Donald Kendal returns after only a...
Trump vs. The World - In The Tank #486
The Heartland Institute's Tim Benson wrote a paper analyzing the money funneled to green groups through the Inflation Reduction Act, where everything predictably cost ...
Backbone of Climate Agenda Endangered - The Climate Realism Show #147
Big news this week as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has reportedly told the White House it should officially abandon the ruling that greenhouse gases pose a threat to h...
Is it Over for the MSM? - In The Tank #485
The FBI is investigating an alleged "honeypot" operation against the 2016 Trump campaign, in which Comey's FBI may have planted female agents to try to compromise Trum...
Exposing the Climate Grift - The Climate Realism Show #146
Elon Musk's DOGE crew continues to shine a light on how our federal government operates, and it is exposing more climate grift than even the most cynical among us coul...
All the Narratives are Collapsing - In The Tank #484
The "experts" are still trying to rewrite the narrative on the government response to COVID, and one of President Trump's picks supports the questionable PRO Act. Mean...
EPA Returning ‘Gold Bars’ to Taxpayers - The Climate Realism Show #145
The good news for climate realists and better governance in the Trump administration is piling up so fast it is difficult to keep up. As we covered on this show on Dec...
Curing Our Sick: Public Health Policy - In The Tank Podcast #483
Carefully constructed narratives and funding related to public health are being re-evaluated by this new administration, bringing sunlight to disinfect a contaminated ...
The Trump Effect on the Global Climate Agenda - The Climate Realism Show #144
President Trump has struck the Biden administration’s climate and energy policy like a hurricane – from increasing energy exploration and extraction, to letting 1,000 ...
Is DOGE Breaking Washington, or Fixing it? - In The Tank #482
The Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the status quo continue, causing the right people to worry about their next paychecks. Nations around the world are com...
Suing Big Oil for LA Fires is All Wet - The Climate Realism Show #143
The historic and devastating fires in Los Angeles exposed the incompetence of leaders such as Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass. So how do state legislators want ...
Trump’s YUUUGE First 10 Days - In The Tank #481
It’s an understatement to say that Donald Trump hit the ground running to start his interrupted second term. The speed and precision with which he has canceled nearly ...
A New Golden Age For America - In The Tank #480
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 480 of the In The Tank Podcast. At the beginning of his inaugural address, Preside...
Making Climate Policy Sane Again - The Climate Realism Show #142
President Trump wasted no time after his inauguration on Monday reversing all of his predecessor’s executive orders that made climate alarmism and “green” energy the f...
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...
Purge of the Global Progressives - In The Tank #479
The Heartland Institute’s Linnea Lueken and Jim Lakely are joined by writer and commentator Jon Gabriel for episode 479 of the In The Tank Podcast.With the certificat...
