H. Sterling Burnett, Author at The Western Journal

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H. Sterling Burnett, PhD, is director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy at The Heartland Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research center headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

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Op-Ed

Extreme Climate Model Scenario Was Widely Used Despite Being Impossible

The IPCC has wielded RCP8.5 like a cudgel during treaty negotiations to beat government climate negotiators into restricting fossil fuels.

By H. Sterling Burnett July 19, 2026

Pollution smoke from a factory plant pumping smoke into the air.

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Op-Ed

As Climate Realism Rises, Climate Alarmism Coverage Is Collapsing

Data show it is increasingly apparent that climate realists, whom the media have tried to silence or censor, have been right.

By H. Sterling Burnett June 20, 2026

Articles boasting about the affordability of wind and solar power havent been telling the whole story.

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Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Green-Energy Benefit Debunked - Fossil Fuels are Cheaper than Renewable Energy, and the Facts Prove It

For decades, hundreds of reports claimed solar and wind power are cheaper than conventional sources of power. Those stories were false.

By H. Sterling Burnett February 12, 2026

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Op-Ed

It's Time to End Government Support for Industrial Wind and Solar

"[S]tates with rising renewable energy mandates and large subsidies have the most expensive and fastest-climbing energy costs."

By H. Sterling Burnett July 3, 2025

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum sit next to President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting in the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 26, 2025.

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Op-Ed

It's Time for Burgum to Stop Defying President Trump's Demand

"Despite Trump’s clearly expressed desire Burgum has yet to act on President Trump’s executive order calling for a halt to offshore wind."

By H. Sterling Burnett April 13, 2025

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin speaks on stage at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2024.

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Op-Ed

Trump's EPA Head Lee Zeldin Needs to Undo the 'Endangerment Finding'

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin was charged by President Donald Trump with reconsidering the "Endangerment Finding." Here's why it needs to go.

By H. Sterling Burnett March 2, 2025

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting about cybersecurity in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday.

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Op-Ed

Thanks to Biden, the Feds Could Soon Violate the 5th Amendment Using the Endangered Species Act

'The 1973 Endangered Species Act has been a costly fiasco. It has failed to protect or help revive species at risk of extinction.'

By H. Sterling Burnett August 25, 2021

Extreme Climate Model Scenario Was Widely Used Despite Being Impossible

As Climate Realism Rises, Climate Alarmism Coverage Is Collapsing

Op-Ed: Green-Energy Benefit Debunked - Fossil Fuels are Cheaper than Renewable Energy, and the Facts Prove It

It's Time to End Government Support for Industrial Wind and Solar

It's Time for Burgum to Stop Defying President Trump's Demand

Trump's EPA Head Lee Zeldin Needs to Undo the 'Endangerment Finding'

Thanks to Biden, the Feds Could Soon Violate the 5th Amendment Using the Endangered Species Act

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