Liberty and Ecology Blog

How I Plan to Vote on Environmental Issues

Posted on August 16, 2023August 17, 2023 by H. Sterling Burnett

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy at the Heartland Institute.

“Elections have consequences,” former President Barack Obama once rightly said, and we are in an election cycle. In choosing whom to vote for, I always consider how closely a current officeholder has adhered to his or her constitutional oath while in office—has he or she voted as often as possible to limit the federal government to its constitutionally enumerated role?

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Biden Hypocrisy Overflows, Harming Lobster Fishers and Right Whales

Posted on December 27, 2022December 30, 2022 by H. Sterling Burnett

Hypocrisy abounds in the White House when it comes to ocean wildlife along the East Coast of the U.S. On December 1, President Joe Biden hosted a state dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron, at which more than 200 Maine lobsters were served. As noted by The Guardian, just days earlier the retailer Whole Foods…

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Threats to Endangered Whales Undermine Biden’s Offshore Wind Ambitions

Posted on December 8, 2022December 9, 2022 by H. Sterling Burnett

President Joe Biden’s grandiose plans for offshore industrial wind facilities lining the nation’s coasts have more than a few hurdles to clear before they can become reality. One of those is the fate of endangered North Atlantic right whales, whose migration route is in the bullseye of the offshore wind proposals.

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How Social Media Oligopolies Suppress Climate Facts. Part II: What Role for Government?

Posted on October 26, 2022October 27, 2022 by H. Sterling Burnett

In Part I, I discussed the lengths to which high-tech social media companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, and others go to disparage and prohibit materials their “fact checkers” don’t like. Nowhere is this more true than with prominent scientists who differ from the politically dominant views on climate change. This post will look at possible remedies….

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How Social Media Oligopolies Suppress Climate Facts. Part I

Posted on October 25, 2022October 26, 2022 by H. Sterling Burnett

Climate alarmists’ response when the facts don’t fit the narrative they’ve been pushing for two decades is to suppress the facts by killing the messengers. Today you kill bearers of inconvenient truths not with an ax to the back of the neck but by de-platforming them. Climate alarmists are the true science deniers, promoting model…

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The Wild Swings of Joe Biden’s Energy Policies Put America Last, and Sink His Poll Numbers, Too

Posted on December 2, 2021December 27, 2021 by H. Sterling Burnett

President Joe Biden’s climate and energy policies are one critical factor in his sinking poll numbers and in the dwindling chances that the Democrats will keep either house of Congress in the mid-term elections. Biden’s and the Democrats’ fortunes are falling almost as fast as the average American’s energy, food, and fuel prices are rising….

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