There was once a time when climate change was about science. No longer.
It is now about money and politics. Not just some of it. All of it.
The peak event of the worldwide money-politics intersection is the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. The 2023 “Global Risks” meeting is being held this week – with a dominant theme (again) being the campaign to eliminate the use of fossil fuels.
Like COP meetings, the Davos meeting is the very epitome of hypocrisy.
More than a thousand private jet aeroplanes serviced last year’s meeting. As Greenpeace says: “The rich and powerful flock to Davos in ultra-polluting, socially inequitable private jets to discuss climate and inequality behind closed doors”.
Private jet flights are by far the most emissions-intensive mode of transport per passenger-kilometre yet invented. Every Davos flight averaged CO2 emissions equivalent to those produced by about 350,000 average cars for a week.
53% of these private flights were for short-haul trips of less than 466 miles, while 38% were under 311 miles, according to the report. The French government has already banned short-haul commercial flights where “green alternatives ” are available and New Zealand may soon follow suit.
There will now be a week of fine dining: air-flown filet, frenched cutlets, truffle ice cream, the very best cheeses. Despite this, Davos Man will continue to staunchly advocate veganism – and eating proteins from insects – to “save the planet”.
Oxfam tracked the investments of 125 billionaires finding that they average 393 Mt of CO2 every year, which is equivalent to the whole of France and “makes the average billionaire’s annual emissions a million times higher than a person in the poorest 90% of the world’s population”.
The only rational conclusion to be drawn from from all this cognitive dissonance is that these wealthy people do not really believe a word of what they constantly preach about climate change.
They demand pain and sacrifice rules “for thee but not for me”. They say one thing and do another. As the old cliche has it: their actions speak louder than words.
So, they must have some other underlying objective. But what is it? Money, money, money, money….
On Tuesday, US climate czar John Kerry told the Davos gathering that the WEF Climate Strategy was modelled on the global Covid vaccine rollout, and needed a lot more money:
“So, how do we get there? Well, the lesson I’ve learned in the last years and I learned it as secretary [of State] and I’ve learned it since, reinforced in spades, is: money, money, money, money, money, money, money. And I’m sorry to say that.”
Kerry is not touting ‘green’ investments. He is talking to philanthropists about philanthropy:
“We have to do it on a massive basis and the key to that one is philanthropy…. I mean yes technology, yes exciting new initiatives, yes organising winning races politically…but we have to go further.”
Go further than organising winning races politically? What on earth could the WEF have in mind?
An urge to be a super-hero?
In this week’s Newsweek, an Austrian economics professor contends that “Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie”. The opening paragraph reads:
“The downfall of capitalism will not come from the uprising of an impoverished working class but from the sabotage of a bored upper class. This was the view of the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. Schumpeter believed that at some point in the future, an educated elite would have nothing left to struggle for and will instead start to struggle against the very system that they themselves live in.”
The op-ed argues that the green movement is not a reflection of planetary crisis but, rather, a crisis of meaning for the affluent.
The favourite fantasy of the Western upper class is that the end of the world is imminent and can only be averted if we fundamentally change the way we live. But “we” does not include the seriously wealthy. No. Their heroic role is to make all this change happen. To be leaders. History will record that it was their vision and grit that ensured the future of the human race.
Prof Schoellhammer says it doesn’t matter to them that every alarmist prediction has proven to be wrong – because facts can be trumped by “morality”. Extreme predictions pander to an ersatz-religion that allows the super-rich to simultaneously enjoy their wealth and lecture the rest of the world from a position of moral superiority.
Inter-generational guilt also plays a role. The Newsweek article reveals that the unspeakable “Just Stop Oil” group, who throw ketchup over priceless paintings, are on the payroll of Aileen Getty, the granddaughter of legendary oil-tycoon Jean Paul Getty. Who knew?
The Rockefeller Foundation, created from fabled oil wealth[1], has pledged to make the fight against climate change central to all of its work, including all of its many operations and investments.
Is this article persuasive? Could swathes of “the top1%” really be so ego-needy or guilt-infused? Are they virtue-signalling, or promoting/protecting their investments?
Buying alarm and panic
John Kerry is quite open about financing the political campaigns of candidates who support draconian climate policies. No left-wing candidate anywhere in the developed world could get elected in 2023 without first prostrating themselves before the shrine of climate change alarm.
But buying politicians is not enough unless they can get re-elected.
Public opinion has to be bought as well, and that is a long hard grind : the press, the electronic media, government officials, celebrities, pollsters, academics, trade unions, bloggers, social media gatekeepers, teachers, influencers, the entertainment industry, etc – in every region and district in the English-speaking world. It all adds up to serious money.
In the last five years, just three US billionaires (Soros, Bloomberg, Bezos) have funded NGOs to employ at least 30,000 full-time-equivalent climate campaigners. The numbers of NGO employees funded by wealthy individuals and charitable foundations worldwide runs into the millions[2]. @SDGaction, an NGO, boasts that its members accumulated 100 million ‘transformative actions’ and stunts in 2021 alone, and thereby changed the world.
These activists work all day, every day, on lobbying everybody, everywhere, to demand more extreme and extensive climate policies. The planned outcome is to overwhelm and control the public debate – or to ensure that there is no public debate – and to spread cultures and politics of chronic self-deception in respect of all issues that are related to climate change. They have been remarkably successful.
The Newsweek article has this scary disclosure:
“At the “Climate Action Summit” in 2018, two dozen billionaire-backed foundations pledged 4 billion dollars for climate-change lobbying.
Some of them, like the Hewlett Foundation, are directly funding journalists at the Associated Press for “climate reporting,” while foundations associated with the Packard and Rockefeller families have been backing the journalistic endeavour “Covering Climate Now,” which “collaborates with journalists and newsrooms to produce more informed and urgent climate stories” and is financing hundreds of media outlets.”
Two years after that Summit, Jeff Bezos alone committed $10 billion to fund activists, NGOs and scientists, because he believes (wrongly) that “Earth’s climate was changing faster than predicted by the scientific community five years ago”.
Just imagine how much propaganda will be bought with that ten thousand million dollars!
For years, billionaire Michael Bloomberg has been quietly funding private attorneys to work in public attorneys-general offices in Democratic states.Those privately-funded attorneys take climate cases against oil companies and the like – in the name of the State.
Forbes reports how billionaires Tom Steyer, Hank Paulson and Bloomberg successfully bribed US climate scientists to re-position the most extreme IPCC scenario (RCP8.5) to be mis-characterised as “business as usual”.
Billionaire Larry Fink has diverted trillions of dollars in BlackRock client funds away from companies that haven’t yet promised to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
Big questions
While these few anecdotes have found their way into the press, the bulk of lobbying activity is inherently secretive – sunshine is too effective as a disinfectant. So, I have no doubt that the above examples are merely the tip of the iceberg. They are the well-publicised actions of white American men who are household names (cue Bill Gates, Mark Benioff,) and exclude the other 2,667 billionaires (cue Laureen Jobs) counted by Forbes magazine.
You might think that this barely-imaginable cataract of cash could buy almost anything in this money-conscious world. Can it buy scientific research grants? Access to scientific journals? Resolutions at conferences of public-sector scientists? The sympathetic ear of UN officials? Consensus at Davos?
What would happen if all this billionaire philanthropy was to be withdrawn from politicians, bureaucrats, environmental organisations, newspapers, broadcasters, etc?
Would there be anything left of the climate change emergency? Or would it quietly fade away?
References:
[1] John D Rockefeller, the world’s richest man a century ago, founded Standard Oil (forerunner of both Exxon-Mobil and Caltex) and is seen as the father of the global oil industry. [2] “Charities” is now the third biggest employment sector in the UK.
Barry Brill OBE JP LL.M(Hons) M.ComLaw is a former MP and Minister of Energy, Petrocorp director, and chair of the Gas Council, Power NZ, ESANZ, and EMCO. He is presently the Chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.
Saturday’s Daily Mail carried a three page article by Ross Clark which explained in the most reasonable language just what has been happening to the media when reporting on global warming issues. While not everyone reads the mail, it still has a very large readership. There is more to come on Sunday. The articles come from a new book that Ross is just publishing. Here is the link to the article:
Here are some quotes which illustrate the massive exaggeration in media coverage:
"On July 19 last year, Britain experienced its highest-ever recorded temperature: 40.3c (104.5f) at Coningsby, Lincolnshire. This was the fourth time Britain’s maximum temperature record had been broken since 1990 and is consistent with a warming climate.
Yet did that justify the reporting which framed it as an ‘apocalypse’ with predictions of 10,000 excess deaths from that summer’s heatwave? In the event, excess deaths came to less than a third of that. Moreover, the middle of 2022 witnessed a large unexplained number of excess deaths beginning in March, long before the heatwave."
"People already live and work quite happily in climates far hotter than Britain will experience even in the most dramatic scenarios of climate change. They manage to do this thanks to properly designed buildings, insulated from heat as well as cold, aided by proper ventilation and air-conditioning."
"There seem to be very simple rules behind the narrative being spun to the public. First, that climate change offers nothing positive, only harm. Second, that the only way to tackle that harm is to end climate change. The idea of adapting to it is considered sacrilege."
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Jay Lehr, R.I.P.
Last Thursday I received and unexpected call from Jim Lakely, vice president of The Heartland Institute, informing me that Jay Lehr, longtime Heartland Institute science director, had passed away. I was taken aback at the unwelcome news, unable to speak for a moment. Many of us, myself included, are still recovering from the news. As noted in last week’s CCW, Jay’s work and friendship touched many lives, so this week’s edition is devoted to remembrances of him. Separate remembrances from several of Jay’s colleagues and friends follows my comments.
Jay Lehr, 86, of Ostrander, Ohio passed away Tuesday, January 10, 2023, at Grady Memorial Hospital. Born September 11, 1936, in Bayonne, New Jersey, he was the son of the late Martin Moses and Rebecca (Dreznick) Lehr. On July 7, 1991, he married Janet Kingery at the Wyman Woods Park and they shared 31 wonderful years together.
Jay was an internationally renowned speaker, scientist, and author who testified before Congress on dozens of occasions on environmental issues and consulted with nearly every agency of the national government, as well as many foreign countries.
Jay was a leading authority on groundwater hydrology. After graduating from Princeton University at the age of 20 with a degree in Geological Engineering, he went on to receive the nation’s first Ph.D. in Groundwater Hydrology from The University of Arizona.
Jay was a professor of Hydrogeology at The Ohio State University in the 1960s and an adjunct professor for many more years. He spent 25 years as Executive Director of the National Ground Water Association. He then spent 25 years as Senior Scientist for The Heartland Institute. Most recently, Jay was Senior Policy Advisor for the International Climate Science Coalition. Jay was passionate about educating others on the science behind the fallacy of man-made climate change.
Jay was the author of more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. He was editor of Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns; McGraw-Hill’s Handbook on Environmental Science, Health and Technology (2000); the six-volume Water Encyclopedia (Wiley Interscience, 2005); and Wiley Interscience’s Nuclear Energy Encyclopedia: Science, Technology, and Applications (2011).
Jay was the author of numerous publications for Heartland during his years as Science Director, testifying before Congress, state legislatures, and at administrative hearings hundreds of times. Among the most influential papers he produced for The Heartland Institute was one arguing that the U.S. EPA had long surpassed its usefulness and exceeded its authority, and should be replaced as a regulatory body by a committee composed of state Environmental Protection Agencies. While the EPA still exists, in 2016, Jay’s plan influenced the 2016 Republican Party Platform, which included provisions:
to shift responsibility for environmental regulation from the federal bureaucracy to the states and to transform the EPA into an independent bipartisan commission, similar to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with structural safeguards against politicized science. We will strictly limit congressional delegation of rule-making authority, and require that citizens be compensated for regulatory takings.
Jay was an enthusiastic proponent of these provisions, seeing them as a stepping stone to the ultimate goal of ending the EPA as we know it.
Lehr spoke in front of thousands of audiences on topics ranging from global warming and biotechnology to business management and health and physical fitness, always receiving high scores for entertaining and energizing even the largest audiences. Jay always showed up to his global warming presentations with business cards, on the back of which were a list of 10 climate myths, and a carbon dioxide (CO2) reader, to show students, teachers, and whoever else composed his audience that CO2 is not a pollutant, or dangerous at any levels they are likely to encounter. Indeed, the readings of his CO2 reader showed audience members they lived their daily lives in environments where CO2 levels are much higher than climate scolds say are deadly to life on earth.
Jay was a participant in every International Climate Conference hosted by The Heartland Institute, and was awarded the “Dauntless Purveyor of Truth Award,” at the 13th International Conference on Climate Change in 2019. No person was ever more deserving of that award. One can view his acceptance of the award and many of his other insightful presentations here.
With his workload, it is hard to fathom how Jay found time to pursue so many extracurricular passions, but he did. Jay was known as the “Father of Western Lacrosse.” He was assistant lacrosse coach at The Ohio State University in the ’60s. He loved playing club lacrosse, hockey and men’s hardball. He founded the Columbus Metros semi-pro football team. He was an avid skydiver, 10-time Ironman finisher, and multiple marathon finisher.
Jay was a proud Princeton alum (class of ’57). He was known throughout the Princeton community for his participation in the “Princeton P-rade,” where he walked the parade route on his hands for 20 years, then completed the route annually on his unicycle for another 20 years. Jay was also known for his love of skydiving, having completed 1,481 successful jumps, always with exact precision in hitting his target, “Earth.” Indeed, Jay was featured in Parachutist, the magazine of the U.S. Parachute Association, in March 2010, for setting a new world record, having jumped from an airplane each and every month for 32 years.
Jay was the most optimistic and energetic person you will ever meet. He always inspired others to reach their highest potential. He adored his wife, Janet, and cherished doing everything together, from traveling to biking to watching Hallmark movies. Every day was Christmas Eve to Jay. In addition to Janet, he is survived by his daughters, Leslie (John Truby) Lehr and Tracy (Mike) de Martino; stepchildren, Tonia (Richard) Birt and Tom (Colleen) Kingery; grandchildren, Juliette, Caty Joy, Marie Claire, Josilynn, Spencer, Emily, Abigail, and Landon.
That’s the official stuff. All of it true.
Now for a few personal impressions. Jay was the most extreme climate skeptic I have ever known (truly sad to write that in the past tense). I heard him say on more than one occasion it was impossible that human greenhouse gas emissions were causing climate change. He thought the physics just didn’t add up.
I don’t recall ever speaking with Jay about religion, but I do know he lived his life in a way every Christian should aspire to. He lacked ego, he was exceedingly kind, he continually pursued new knowledge, and he was an eternal optimist.
Some personal recollections highlight his lack of ego and gracious embrace of criticism. I was fortunate to have edited a number of Jay’s book reviews for Environment & Climate News, his op-eds, and the quotes he provided for stories.
I have known many scholars to take every word they write as gold, with no room for improvement or leeway for alteration. They fight almost any edit to their work. Jay was not one of those writers.
In his writings, Jay wasn’t always the clearest communicator, at least not for lay audiences without a background in higher math, physics, or other scientific disciplines. Sometimes, it wasn’t clear, even to me, what exactly Jay was saying. On those occasions, rather than going back and forth with edits and corrections over multiple emails, I would call Jay directly, and he’d take whatever time it took to hash through my lack of clarity. The conversation typically proceeded in the form of a Socratic dialogue, with me asking questions about what exactly Jay was trying to communicate, asking for further clarification, sometimes offering corrections or my gloss on what he wanted to say, and finally honing in on language that clearly and simply communicated the complex idea Jay had crammed into a few jargon-laden sentences. At the end, I would write out what I understood he wanted to communicate, to which Jay would invariably say, “That’s fabulous, that’s exactly what I intended to say, Sterling, you made it so much clearer.”
I was always humbled by him saying so. Usually, my confusion wasn’t so great as to merit a phone call; often, I just thought Jay’s writing or quotes could be simpler, more direct, and more focused. On those occasions, when I edited his articles or quotes, I would always run my rewrite by Jay for approval. Jay consistently told me I didn’t need to do so, that he trusted me, and was confident if I thought a change was needed for clarity or style, he was sure it was true. I never took Jay up on that offer, thinking it improper to put my take on his words in his mouth. Jay was always effusive in his praise of my edits and rewrites.
No one has ever accused me of being an optimist, but Jay remained one until his final days. For instance, in the last podcast I conducted with Jay, he explained that, despite my gloomy prognosis, Socialism Will Not Win Despite the Current Energy/Supply Crises. I left this conversation more hopeful than when it began, but then that was true of almost every conversation or exchange I ever had with Jay.
I was truly looking forward to dining and speaking with Jay at Heartland’s forthcoming climate conference in Orlando. I always sought him out at these conferences. Now there is a hole in my schedule as well as my heart.
The passing of Dr. Jay Lehr is a tremendous loss to The Heartland Institute family, to the field of science, and to the greater universe of mankind.
I first met Jay in 2001 when I joined The Heartland Institute. Back then and throughout the 20-plus years I knew him, Jay was the most enthusiastic and energetic man I knew. He was a man with a tremendous intellect yet tremendous humility. He would do anything for anybody and was more than happy to allow others to take the credit for his hard work.
Jay kept up a remarkable travel schedule, constantly touring the country—and indeed the world—while spreading his love of science and agriculture. Audiences loved his energetic demeanor and encyclopedic knowledge of science. While on the road, he would tirelessly spend his evenings writing book reviews and science articles for Heartland and others. Jay was the Energizer bunny of science.
It was impossible not to smile when seeing Jay. He effused good cheer, passion, and personal warmth. During times of trouble, Jay would always go out of his way to cheer me up with his kind heart, optimism, and compassion.
It does not seem real that I will never see him again at Heartland’s climate conferences or anywhere else. I will miss you, my friend.
James Taylor is president of the Heartland Institute.
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In this episode of Heartland’s Environment & Climate News Podcast from back in July, H. Sterling Burnett interviews Jay Lehr about how America’s current energy and food crises are not the unintentional results of misguided policies. Rather, the crises are the deliberate result of policies imposed to turn people into serfs, giving global elites more control over peoples’ lives. Elites want regular people to beg for ever more government help.
Fortunately, the people will eventually wake up. New technology and open markets will result in the removal of bad rulers, and thus, improved lives. The pendulum will swing back to freedom for a while. But we must fear protect freedom when authoritarianism creeps in.
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The Amazing Accomplishments of Jay Lehr
Dr. Jay H. Lehr was one of the world’s most famous scientists and fiercest critics of the corruption of climate science.
Lehr was marked for success at an early age, graduating from Princeton University at the age of 20 with a degree in Geological Engineering, then proceeding to gain the first Ph.D. in Groundwater Hydrology from the University of Arizona, and later becoming executive director of the National Association of Groundwater Scientists and Engineers.
Lehr first achieved national and international notice with the release in 1992 of Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns, a thick compendium of essays on a wide range of environmental issues written by many of the world’s leading scientists. The book’s recurring theme, that environmental risks are widely misunderstood and often exaggerated for political ends, would become Lehr’s lifelong message.
Rational Readings was one of a handful of books—others include Julian Simon’s The Ultimate Resource (1981), Simon and Herman Kahn’s The Resourceful Earth (1984), and Aaron Wildavsky’s But Is It True? (1997)—that exposed the growing corruption of science by progressives (including communists), who sought to frighten the public into embracing socialist policies. The book had a profound influence on the public debate at the time and an even greater long-term impact by letting many whistle-blowers in the science community know they were not alone.
While his research and publications alone placed Lehr in the pantheon of the world’s leading public intellectuals, his second superpower was being an extraordinary public speaker. He spoke before thousands of audiences, large and small, in the U.S. and around the world, invariably receiving standing ovations.
Lehr’s popularity with audiences was so great programs had to be delayed and audience members asked to follow him out of the room so the next speaker could have his turn.
Three factors made Jay one of the most influential scientists in the world. One was his short-term photographic memory. He could write a speech, rehearse it a few times, and then deliver it flawlessly without notes. A second factor was a metabolism that allowed him to work 18 and even 20 hours a day. Long after everyone else was sound asleep, Lehr would be studying, writing, and rehearsing for tomorrow. A third secret was Lehr’s physical fitness.
But Lehr’s most important secret to success was an amazingly positive attitude that animated his speech, gestures, and expressions. Good things weren’t just nice or even excellent to Lehr, they were “fabulous!” Guests on his podcasts weren’t just good, they were “the best guests I have ever had on my show!” Lehr’s enthusiasm was contagious; he radiated positive energy.
Lehr’s sunny outlook on life came in part from a philosophy he shared with me a decade ago (or maybe it was two). He called it his “Ten Rules for Living the Good Life.” They included “Be kind in every human interaction,” “Do not ever complain,” and what became a favorite of ours, “Let no one rain on your parade.”
I printed and framed Lehr’s “Rules for Living” and it hung above my desk for many years. I probably read those words a hundred times while trying to solve problems. I learned today that it still hangs on a wall at The Heartland Institute, four years after my retirement, inspiring others to find wonder in the world, speak the truth, and live the good life even today.
Joseph Bast was founder and president of The Heartland Institute. Bast retired in 2018.
Jay Lehr, Superman
Superman. That was my nickname for Dr. Jay Lehr during the almost three years he was Senior Policy Advisor to the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC). As a child growing up, Superman was my hero. Superman was brilliant and worked hard. He was strong, super fit and handsome. He was kind, polite, and unpretentiousness. And, of course, Superman always told the truth and never backed down in the face of evil. I never thought I would actually meet someone like that in real life.
Then, along came Jay Lehr. At first, he seemed to be too good to be true. I had seen Jay from afar on stage as the Science Director of The Heartland Institute at their International Conferences on Climate Changeand I marveled at this energetic, articulate, tanned, fit, and fearless octogenarian. Surely someone who appeared that awesome on the surface must be arrogant, were I to actually get to know him. But no. When we appeared together on Heartland panels, I realized that, yes, Superman did exist in the real world, the one-in-a-million person who combined a science Ph.D. with superb athletic prowess, hard work, and humility to boot. When the opportunity arose to bring Jay on board as ICSC’s senior scientist, I was thrilled and jumped at the opportunity.
And Jay did not disappoint. In the past three years, he pumped out timely, well-researched, and exciting climate change and energy articles for me to add my two cents to before publishing. Since Jay started working regularly with ICSC in April 2019, articles and radio interviews from the “Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris” team numbered well over 600, primarily thanks to Jay’s unbelievable work ethic. And that was only our joint media effort. On his own, Dr. Lehr continued to publish many, many more. Was Jay hard working? Was he prolific? I’ll say!
But it was really his personality that made Jay such a valued co-worker and later a personal friend. Always upbeat. Always honest. Always supportive and complimentary to others and never a mean bone in his body. I will certainly miss Dr. Jay Lehr, a real-world Superman.
Tom Harris is chairman of the International Climate Science Coalition, based in Canada.
We Will Win: to My Friend Jay Lehr
All those who are at the forefront of the fight against the climate change delusion recognize the importance of Jay Lehr, his love for truth, for scientific rigor, and above all, for life. Jay wrote hundreds of articles, edited countless books and was always ready to collaborate with newcomers in this battle against the “evil dressed in green,” as he himself described it, after reading Yuval Noah Harari’s material.
Jay was a huge sports enthusiast. While I, who am not even half his age, talked about the thrill of running two miles, Jay was training for yet another ironman and planning yet another parachute jump. “The important thing is to be consistent and not stop training,” he said.
Jay was incredibly generous. He contributed to PHVOX (Brazil) with the same interest that he published his articles on larger platforms and aimed at an American audience. He, together with Tom Harris, invited international researchers to participate in the largest radio program in the United States, America Out Loud. He wanted the American public to have access to what was happening in Brazil, Chile, and Germany because of environmental fearmongering.
Jay was that friend you had the courage to send your texts to, written in a language in which you are not proficient. He was always ready to read and help as best he could. He was the most optimistic person I’ve ever met. He once explained that every day he sets out to accomplish one good thing, even if it means sweeping the floor. Jay is that good friend that I hope most people are privileged to meet at least once in their lives. I had.
Jay’s last article for PHVOX was titled “We Win.” Dear Jay, we will win this battle against evil. We lost one of our giants, but we, the smaller ones, will carry on your legacy. Rest in Peace Jay. You will be greatly missed.
Rafaella Nascimento,Ph.D., is a board member of the CO2 Coalition.
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The Heartland Institute presents the Dauntless Purveyor of Climate Truth Award to Jay Lehr at ICCC13 in 2019
The Heartland Institute presents the Dauntless Purveyor of Climate Truth Award to Jay Lehr at ICCC13 in 2019.
Jay Lehr on getting rid of the U.S. EPA
The Heartland Institute presents the Dauntless Purveyor of Climate Truth Award to Jay Lehr at ICCC13 in 2019.
Jay Lehr – The Other Side of the Global Warming Story
Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr presents, “The Other Side of the Global Warming Story” to a group of Science Teachers in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 2017.
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. is the director of The Heartland Institute’s Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy and the managing editor of Environment & Climate News.
