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Is Climate Change Driven by Mankind: My Personal Journey

John S. Theon, Ph.D.

The Heartland Institute / March 16, 2009

The entire issue of anthropogenic climate change had its beginnings with the International Geophysical Year in 1958, for it was then that continuous observations ... (read more)

It’s The Sun, Stupid!

Willie Soon

March 01, 2009

The theory that climate change is chiefly caused by solar influences “is no longer tenable,” says US National Academy of Sciences president ... (read more)

Who's Afraid of Global Warming?

Esti Ahronovitz

Haaretz Daily Newspaper February 14, 2009

The blackboard in Prof. Nir Shaviv's office in the Department of Physics at Hebrew University is covered with equations and graphs. He's hunched over the ... (read more)

Research of Hundreds More Scientists Shows the Natural 1,500-Year Climate Cycle

Harriette Johnson

News Release / The Heartland Institute / March 03, 2008

(New York City - March 3, 2008)--The co-authors of the best-seller Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years today released a second list of more than ... (read more)

Failure to Warm

David Archibald

Occasional Address / Lavoisier Society / October 22, 2007

At its simplest, the relationship between the solar magnetic field strength and the Earth’s climate is this: lower magnetic field strength means few ... (read more)

The Coming Global Cooling?

World Climate Report

World Climate Report / March 16, 2007

Testimony of Dr. Willie Soon before The United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

Dr. Willie Soon

Testimony / U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works / July 29, 2003

A Climate Change Primer: Computer Models and the Need for More Research

Jay Lehr and Richard S. Bennett

Environment & Climate News / The Heartland Institute / July 01, 2003

In Part One of this three-part series, Lehr and Bennett defined and described the “greenhouse effect,” summarized temperature observations and reported ... (read more)

A Climate Change Primer: Solar and Orbital Variation

Jay Lehr and Richard S. Bennett

Environment & Climate News / The Heartland Institute / June 01, 2003

In Part One of this three-part series, Lehr and Bennett defined and described the “greenhouse effect”; summarized temperature observations and reported ... (read more)

A Climate Change Primer: It’s the Sun!

Jay Lehr and Richard S. Bennett

Environment & Climate News / The Heartland Institute / May 01, 2003

The sun supplies the energy to warm the Earth. The atmosphere, which is mostly transparent to the incoming sunlight, absorbs outgoing reflected or internal ... (read more)