Via press release.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS (March 12, 2020) – The Heartland Institute is excited to announce a groundbreaking new tool for policymakers, teachers, and anybody else interested in climate change. Heartland’s new ClimateAtAGlance.com website provides powerful, concise, one- or two-page summaries of the most important topics in the climate change debate.
Today’s climate debate is often fought over sound-bites and bullet points. Heartland has broken down 20 of the most frequently argued climate issues into short, “at-a-glance” summaries that provide the most important, accurate, powerful information. Bullet-points at the top of each summary provide quick, memorable information.
After the bullet-points, short summaries of a paragraph or two provide additional depth. Many of the summaries are illustrated with one or two memorable visual graphs. Links embedded in the summaries allow readers to verify the information and find additional in-depth information.
The Heartland Institute will be regularly adding many additional summaries, with a goal of doubling the number of summaries during the course of the year.
Some topics covered in first 20 summaries, which include PDF versions for printing and distribution:
Ocean Currents, Snowpack, Urban Heat Islands, Sea Level Rise, Hurricanes, Crop Production, Drought, Coral Reefs, and the “Consensus” on what are the main drivers of climate change and how dangerous it is.
The “Climate at a Glance” summaries are designed to provide a library of solid yet simple rebuttals so that legislators, teachers, students, and others can easily refute the exaggerations of the so-called “climate crisis.” Armed with a concise summary of the best scientific, economic, and public policy information, people can better articulate Climate Realism and fight back against the Climate Delusion.
“Starting with 20 well-known climate change topics, ClimateAtAGlance.com will continue to expand and will eventually host dozens of concise summaries of climate-related topics,” said James Taylor, Director of The Heartland Institute’s Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy.
“The summaries will be particularly valuable to policymakers, teachers, and students, who are often thrust into the center of the climate change debate. We invite everyone to visit ClimateAtAGlance.com for a first look at this important new tool,” Taylor added.
“The climate change issue can be very complex, and in some cases, daunting to understand. This new website does a simple encapsulation of the key issues, done in a way that is a short, easy to digest way, while being firmly rooted in the science,” said meteorologist Anthony Watts, a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute, who played a key role compiling the summaries.
To speak to Mr. Taylor or Mr. Watts about Heartland’s Climate At a Glance project, please contact Deputy Director of Communications Keely Drukala at media@heartland.org and 312/377-4000 or (cell) 312/282-1390.
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It comes across as cynical and emotive. Too many complicated and disjointed streams. There should be a simpler message.
“Greenhouse gas effect” is not evident in any data. The satellite data readily demonstrates that water vapour and OLR are strongly positively correlated:
https://1drv.ms/b/s!Aq1iAj8Yo7jNg1uzA-KKFEvD5BzX
This is the opposite of the claimed GG effect.
The idea that CO2 could enhance the “greenhouse effect” by increasing the amount of water vapour in a positive feedback system defies logic. If “greenhouse gasses” provided positive feedback then Earth would have boiled off all its surface water eons ago; water vapour being claimed to be the most powerful “greenhouse gas”.
Anthony,
Climate at a glance.com has too many uses of the term “alarmist”. It is divisive us/them language and exacerbates the contention. We will not attract people and solutions by being contentious. Better to remove such phrasing, stick to the science/facts only, and not point any fingers.
Thanks,
Nigel.
The Climate at a Glance: Subsidies table is rather poor. Some explanation of the various subsidies versus legitimate tax write-offs versus actual taxes, licence fees, rent resource taxes aid is needed. Does this include local and State charges as well as Federal charges?
It does seem strange they would select only a few years tp put in the table and looks dodgy. A complete series over say 10 years is needed.
Bringing the scientific debate to the political level is in itself wrong and both sides are right and left. Denying climate change is now plain idiocy. This mistake is also tragic because the right is right on some issues like migration and crime. The left is also on the wrong track as it opposes drastic solutions such as geoengineering.
I will not go there:
http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?
Cheers
Excellent summary sheets. I hope they get widely distributed and that they help bring some sanity back to the global warming discussion.
Excellent concept, but (as others have stated) most teachers are not scientists and prefer to be seen as neutral on any topic that is value-laden, but the profession world-wide has been very thoroughly indoctrinateed by the Warmista in universities, teacher training institututions, etc. Teachers see combatitive language as a complete turn-off.
Typos scream ‘UNPROFESSIONAL’ and should be edited out completely by competent proof-readers at the pre-print stage.
With those provisos, kudos to the Heartland Institute for a practical effort to stem the tide of nonsense that is having a serious negative effect on the mental health of the world’s kids.
The link to “sea level rise” states that ocean levels have been rising since 1850, which is not true. Ocean levels have risen 130 metres since the last ice age.
During the “little ice age” sea levels would have decreased slightly for a hundred years or so but restarted rising in the late 1600s as temperatures changed from cooling to warming.
Saying levels started rising in 1850 is an absurd proposition and only serves to give credence that our current warming cycle started in 1850.
The article says that sea level rise is accelerating but that is only true if you believe satellite measurement. Tidal gauges all show linear change.
Wish Heartland would do a bit more research.
A much better resource:
Climate Change: Evidence & Causes
An overview from the Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences
https://royalsociety.org/-/media/Royal_Society_Content/policy/projects/climate-evidence-causes/climate-change-evidence-causes.pdf