March 6, 2025

Has Big Oil stopped bowing to the Greens?

For years, groups like the Heartland Institute, CFACT, and other climate and energy realists have been accused of receiving large amounts of money from Big Oil to promote traditional energy sources. This is not the case, of course, but you know ...

March 6, 2024

Polar bears and coral reefs are doing just fine

We live on a beautiful planet, filled with a dizzying assortment of interesting creatures and living organisms. The vast majority of people want to see that life flourish, so it is no wonder that particularly attractive species like cute (usually) po...

December 2, 2023

Climate Change Is Not Threatening Human Health

It has become all too common in the media, especially every time another United Nations climate conference like COP28 takes place, to blame every problem on climate change. The media and their go-to climate pundits reach far and wide to connect whate...

October 14, 2023

A Skeptical Look at Laudate Deum

A recent teaching document issued by Pope Francis, Laudate Deum (Praise God) has been aggressively promoted by the media for its focus on climate change, especially for the Pope’s criticism of the western world’s heavier energy ...

September 30, 2022

Is California a Luddite Conspiracy?

California politicians continue to pass policies that, by all accounts, appear to be deliberately aimed at substantially reducing its residents’ ability to have reliable, on-demand electricity. At this point, it would not surprise me in the sli...

August 16, 2022

Greens should embrace nuclear microreactors

While we at the Heartland Institute do not believe that any energy sources should be subsidized, if the federal government is going to support energy, it should support sources that are reliable and dispatchable. With that in mind, it is absolutel...

March 26, 2022

Beware of 'temporary' restructuring of society and economies

The Biden administration's assault on U.S. energy independence is continuing even as the White House tries to shift the blame of rapidly climbing inflation and energy costs on Russia.  The energy crisis is being used to push the same ol...

March 9, 2022

Musk bucks the regime with his stance on domestic energy

As oil prices climb ever higher, Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, tweeted that he thought the United States should increase oil and gas production, displaying his surprisingly reasonable understanding of energy markets and the shortcomings of green technologies...

February 11, 2022

Can we trust the Dem reversal of masks and mandates?

As we approach day 673 of "14 days to slow the spread," it seems the left is finally coming around to the position that most conservatives have held for the past two years. Following a few weeks of tentative support for less draconi...

October 26, 2021

Biden's heating oil fiasco

During World War II, U.S. coal companies ran radio advertisements cautioning people to buy only what they needed for immediate use.  The government anticipated needing to use much of the available coal to keep pace with the urgent demand fo...