Articles By Author Jay Lehr, Ph.D.
Articles by Jay Lehr, Ph.D.
09/01/2009 12:00 AM
Last month I promised to recount William Tucker’s excellent chapter on nuclear waste reprocessing from his outstanding book Terrestrial Energy. After ...(read more)
08/26/2009 12:00 AM
The entire trip from August 3 to August 18 was busy, productive, and exciting.I agreed to give as many as three lectures a day, and on a number of days ...(read more)
08/07/2009 12:00 AM
Heartland Science Director Jay Lehr, Ph.D. traveled across Australia for 15 days in early August 2009 for a series of meetings to discuss global warming. ...(read more)
08/01/2009 12:00 AM
[This month’s column on nuclear energy by Heartland Institute Science Director Dr. Jay Lehr features a review of the book Terrestrial Energy: How ...(read more)
08/01/2009 12:00 AM
[Each month, Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr will present evidence that mankind has no significant impact on the Earth’s climate.]Temperatures ...(read more)
07/01/2009 12:00 AM
We are a long way from storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, but when we do, the facilities will look much like the underground bunker in a ...(read more)
07/01/2009 12:00 AM
Editor’s note: Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr presents evidence that mankind has no significant impact on the Earth’s climate. ...(read more)
05/01/2009 12:00 AM
Bruce H. Breslow, executive director of the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects, responds to what he sees as “a number of apprehensions” in Lehr’s ...(read more)
05/01/2009 12:00 AM
Jay Lehr, Ph.D., science director for The Heartland Institute, offers dozens of “talking points” addressing scientific evidence, economic factors, ...(read more)
04/01/2009 12:00 AM
Spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste have been accumulating in the United States for nearly 60 years, when nuclear materials were first used ...(read more)
02/01/2009 12:00 AM
Editors’ note: The following article is the second excerpt from testimony delivered by Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr, Ph.D. before ...(read more)
01/01/2009 12:00 AM
Editors’ note: The following article is the first part of testimony delivered by Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr, Ph.D. before the Colorado ...(read more)
09/16/2008 12:00 AM
Dr. Jay Lehr, science director for The Heartland Institute, was asked by the Joint Committee on Energy of the Colorado legislature to provide testimony ...(read more)
04/01/2008 12:00 AM
When it comes to the production of fruits and vegetables, the state of California leads the nation. Many people know that. But when asked which state ranks ...(read more)
01/01/2008 12:00 AM
Medicine, science, and public policy are driven by competing theories about how our bodies react to various substances.
The U.S. Environmental Protection ...(read more)
12/01/2007 12:00 AM
The Truth About Organic Food
by Alex Avery
Henderson Communications, 2006
231 pages, $19.95, ISBN 0978895207
Organic foods are quite in vogue--they ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
I live in a log home deep in the woods of Ohio. It is a beautiful place we must share with countless insidious insects that would threaten the very foundation ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
I live in a log home deep in the woods of Ohio. It is a beautiful place we must share with countless insidious insects that would threaten the very foundation ...(read more)
10/30/2007 12:00 AM
(CHICAGO, Illinois - October 30, 2007) As firefighters battle to subdue the last of the wildfires that continue to ravage the Southern California landscape, ...(read more)
09/27/2007 12:00 AM
As a scientist with a half century invested in trying to understand the earth's climate and the various impacts of the sun, the planets, the varying declinations ...(read more)
07/12/2007 12:00 AM
Conventional religions have been under attack for some years from liberals who have drifted into secular humanism and away from any devout belief in God. ...(read more)
06/01/2007 12:00 AM
Despite the wrongness of her scientific claims, Rachel Carson had a very positive impact on my life. She wrote a brief publication in 1965 titled "A Sense ...(read more)
03/01/2007 12:00 AM
While it is wonderful that the bald eagle will be taken off the Endangered Species list, many media reports repeated the fiction that the ban on DDT use ...(read more)
02/01/2007 12:00 AM
In the 50 years since receiving my degree in geological engineering, I have tried to stay on top of climate change issues.
From three decades ago, when ...(read more)
01/30/2007 12:00 AM
The theory that human activities are adversely affecting the global climate has attracted many supporters--not because of the soundness of the science, ...(read more)
