H. Sterling Burnett

H. Sterling Burnett


  • The Threat of Carbon Capture

    February 4, 2025

    The Threat of Carbon Capture

    The “climate hoax” and “Green New Scam,” as President Donald Trump calls them, have spawned countless bad ideas and even worse policies. In the transglobal elite’s attempt to direct the world’s economy by contro...

  • Project 2025 Promotes Freedom

    November 5, 2024

    Project 2025 Promotes Freedom

    Over the past few months, a lot of ink has been spilled and words spoken about Project 2025 and former President Donald Trump’s support for it. Almost all of what’s been written and said have been lies from biased writers and pu...

  • Elections Matter to U.N. Climate Negotiations

    September 21, 2024

    Elections Matter to U.N. Climate Negotiations

    No matter how big China’s economy becomes and how outsized Russia’s influence on geopolitics has grown, the United States is still the straw that stirs the drink on climate policy. An article published in the Japan Times abou...

  • Climate Change ‘Solutions’ Are Harming the Environment

    May 24, 2024

    Climate Change ‘Solutions’ Are Harming the Environment

    Big government environmental “fixes” often result in unintended environmental or human health consequences that are worse than the original problem the government solution was meant to solve. Nowhere is this clearer than with governmen...

  • Hurricane Ranking Hype

    February 15, 2024

    Hurricane Ranking Hype

    Recently, with much media fanfare, some scientists proposed adding a new, upper category to the hurricane rating scale, Category 6, to reinforce the dangers posed by climate change, which they believe is making hurricanes more powerful. Upon ...

  • The SEC Oversteps its Powers on Climate Change

    February 2, 2024

    The SEC Oversteps its Powers on Climate Change

    Nearly two years ago, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a rule that would force publicly traded companies to take climate change seriously by reporting on how climate change might materially affect their operations. The manda...

  • August 30, 2023

    Is Hurrican Idalia evidence for 'climate change'?

    In a quick pivot, media attention is shifting from Maui to Florida as Hurricane Idalia churns its way towards the Sunshine State. Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspended his presidential campaigning for the moment to manage hurricane emergency operations....

  • August 24, 2023

    What Caused the Maui Fires?

    It took Joe Biden nearly two weeks to visit Hawaii to offer in-person condolences and support to the survivors of the horrific Maui wildfire. He evidently felt his time was better spent avoiding questions about the Maui wildfire during a beach v...

  • June 15, 2023

    Canadian Wildfires: not driven by climate change

    Mainstream media mavens in New York City, Washington, D.C., and other major cities on the U.S. East Coast blanketed by smoke from Canada’s wildfires went into overdrive saying the event was unprecedented and provided further proof that catastro...

  • September 28, 2022

    Net Zero is bad for business

    The Financial Post reports that major banks in the United States and Europe are threatening to withdraw from a green banking and investment group committed to pursuing net zero goals due to fears of lawsuits and the impact of increasingly s...

  • July 9, 2022

    SCOTUS gun ruling protects individual right

    During the final weeks of the Supreme Court of the United States' 2022 term, it issued some truly historic rulings.  In doing so, SCOTUS went a long way to re-establishing itself as a co-equal branch of government designed to uphol...

  • January 13, 2022

    Climate authoritarians and the lessons of history

    To their own peril as well as everyone else's, climate alarmists are increasingly embracing authoritarianism. A rump group of the environmental movement has always been wedded to authoritarianism.  Going back to the beginnings of the...

  • September 23, 2021

    The Great Reset and COVID

    We live in dangerous times, possibly the most fraught period in American history since the Civil War. This time, the threat is not that the country will split, although there are many on the left and right side of the political spectrum who openly...

  • June 19, 2021

    Climate Change Drought Fairy Tale Season Is Here

    It’s that time of year again! Summer, when things get hot and dry and certain seasonal extreme weather events naturally occur -- as do alarming claims about them. When hurricanes form during “hurricane season,” expect climate alarmi...

  • February 27, 2021

    How Politics is Making Power Failures the Norm

    Modern society is heavily dependent on electric power, yet the power system is and always has been a fragile thing. Because the power system on the whole has been designed by competent engineers and operated by skilled staff, the vast majority of ...

  • February 10, 2021

    Joe Biden’s Climate Change China Crisis

    President Joe Biden has made fighting climate change the cornerstone of his administration’s domestic and international policies. This presents Biden with a huge China problem. Biden believes greenhouse gas emissions are causing dangerous cl...

  • January 14, 2021

    Trump’s Actions Should Slow Biden’s Radical Climate Agenda

    Incoming President Joe Biden has promised to implement the most radical energy and climate agenda Americans have ever seen. With the Democratic party having become an almost wholly owned subsidiary of the radical progressive environmental left whi...

  • May 14, 2020

    Green energy mandates would hamper coronavirus recovery efforts

    Emblematic of the environmental left's response to the coronavirus pandemic, Time magazine published an ill considered article by Justin Worland titled "What Coronavirus Means for the Possibility of a Carbon-Free Economy....

  • April 21, 2020

    Coronavirus concerns bringing plastic bags back

    Plastic bag bans were never a good idea. One reason why is that the reusable bags pushed by nanny-state environmental scolds as alternatives endanger peoples’ lives and health. Research has long indicated that reusable bags are likely vector...

  • December 24, 2019

    Climate Nags are Trying to Ruin Christmas.

    For the religious among us, at least those professing to be Christians, Christmas is a time of reflection on the birth of the Savior, signified in hearts by love and wishes of peace and goodwill towards peoples worldwide, and sometimes on lawns and r...

  • November 6, 2019

    Chile and the revolt against climate-change policies

    Add Chile to the growing list of countries whose governments are suffering a backlash as average people, tired of elites forcing costly climate policies down their throats, take to the streets to protest higher energy costs. Although, undoubtedly,...

  • June 15, 2019

    WebMD Misleads on Agriculture and Climate Change

    Some readers of a recent article published by WebMD titled “Will Climate Change Cause Food Sources to Dwindle?” might be fooled into thinking the author intends to carefully weigh the evidence about this important topic.  But a close...

  • September 26, 2018

    The Shameful Politicization of Hurricanes

    The devastating effects of Hurricane Florence are still being felt throughout the Carolinas.  Clean-up and recovery will take months, if not years. If meteorologists' forecasts that Florence would hit the southeastern United States a...

  • June 19, 2018

    Pope Francis's Misguided War on Fossil Fuels

    It seems that Pope Francis has learned little since his 2015 papal encyclical calling on the world to fight climate change by limiting the use of modern technologies and fossil fuels. At a recent Vatican meeting he called many of the world’s le...

  • March 10, 2018

    Weeding Out Waste and Fraud at Federal Agencies

    Some recent inspector general reports from within various federal agencies show that the Trump administration is attempting to weed out abuse, fraud, and waste in government programs. Early in his tenure as secretary of the Department of the Inter...

  • September 20, 2017

    Hooray for Carbon Dioxide! It's Helping to Feed the World's Hungry

    Among the greatest challenges humankind has faced throughout its history, feeding the world’s hungry ranks at or near the very top of the list. And with the world’s population expected to top nine billion between 2050 and 2100, this issue...

  • August 24, 2017

    Transparency critical to getting science, regulations right

    Federal and state governments pass a massive number of new rules and regulations each year, imposing billions of dollars in costs on individuals and businesses.  Regulatory costs top $1.9 trillion annually, amounting to $14,842 per U.S. househol...

  • May 23, 2017

    The Carbon Tax Rebate Scam

    A group of old-guard, “swamp” Republicans calling themselves the Climate Leadership Council (CLC) has joined climate alarmists, including failed Democratic Party presidential candidate Al Gore, in calling for a tax on carbon-dioxide emiss...

  • April 19, 2017

    Interior Department Takes Steps to Make America Great Again

    Amidst the angst-ridden media attention paid to President Donald Trump’s efforts to carry out his campaign promises to deemphasize the speculative dangers of climate change and focus federal efforts on the real problems people face today -- inc...

  • October 7, 2016

    What Hunters and Anglers Should Know Before They Vote

    Americans who enjoy fishing, hunting, and other wilderness sports should be aware of a number of important issues before stepping into the voting booth in November. Despite objections from many prominent Hawaiians and a federal regional fishing co...