It’s Climate Week again in New York City. Hollywood celebrities, titans of global industries, high-ranking government officials from around the world, climate justice advocates, and other assorted weirdos are once again raising their voice in unison to make us destroy our economies and do what they say. We will have a look at the goings on and determine if these are the wails of a dying movement, or if they are changing their messaging without letting go of their quest for power.

On Episode 218 of The Climate Realism Show the Heartland Institute’s Sterling Burnett, Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely will discuss Climate Week with Tom Harris, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition in Canada. We will also discuss some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including whether climate lawsuit money is drying up, how climate zealots are coming for your shower time, and an update on the disaster of electric buses.

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Monday announced the repeal of an Obama/Biden rule that regulated emissions of greenhouse gases from power plants with the intent to shutter all coal and most natural gas power plants in America. This was a long-time coming and the usual climate doomers are upset. This is huge news, but what does the repeal of the rule really mean for the environment and your wallet.

On Episode 216 of The Climate Realism Show the Heartland Institute’s Sterling Burnett, Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely will discuss this news with Steve Milloy, who was on the transition team for EPA in President Trump’s first term. We will also be joined again by Heartland UK/Europe Director Lois Perry to discuss the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including climate change putting African rain summoning sorcerers at risk of being murdered.

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Net Zero, overall, might be dying in Europe. It’s being rejected by voters in seemingly every election in recent years, and even Democrats here in America don’t talk about it anymore when it used to be a pillar of their platform. So why is something called “Dairy Net Zero,” a green zombie from the Biden administration, still alive in the United States? We will discuss what that is, and why it has to go.


On Episode 216 of The Climate Realism Show the Heartland Institute’s Sterling Burnett, Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely are back LIVE with special guest Samantha Fillmore to cover that story and some other Crazy Climate News of the Week. An Obama economic advisor finally admits what we all knew: green energy mandates make energy more expensive. College football schedules should be adjusted because of climate change? And cleaner air is a good thing … except it causes more global warming.


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On this episode of The Climate Realism Show, we're stitching together four powerful presentations from past International Conferences on Climate Change (ICCC), Heartland Institute's flagship climate events where scientists, engineers, and policy experts challenge the mainstream climate narrative with hard data.

Segment 1: NASA Engineer Tom Moser Reveals the Truth About Climate Science
Former NASA engineer and space station program director Tom Moser — who held roles including Acting Associate Administrator for Spaceflight, Director of the Space Station Program, and Chief Engineer at the Johnson Space Center — breaks down the correlation between global temperatures and solar irradiance, and exposes the gap between real-world data and the climate models driving public policy.

Segment 2: Implausible Climate Goals For a Non-Existent Emissions Crisis
A hard look at the emissions targets driving global climate policy — and why the "crisis" framing behind them doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

Segment 3: The Climate Data Changed My Mind
A firsthand account of how digging into the actual climate data — rather than the headlines — led to a fundamental rethink on the climate debate.

Segment 4: Exposed: Corrupted Climate Stations and Solutions You Need to Know
Heartland Senior Fellow Anthony Watts, creator of SurfaceStations.org, lays out his research on U.S. temperature monitoring stations — finding that a large share fail to meet siting standards, casting doubt on the reliability of the official warming record — and what can be done about it.

Watch every episode of The Climate Realism Show live every week, and check out more from The Heartland Institute:

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The scenes coming out of Nepal of the glacier collapse and flash flood of mud, ice, and water are horrifying. The amount of devastation is almost hard to fathom, and the landscape is changed forever. Mainstream media outlets are blaming the disaster on climate change, and pointing to human activity warming the globe as the top cause. We will expose the truth.

On Episode 214 of The Climate Realism Show the Heartland Institute’s Sterling Burnett, Jim Lakely, and special guests Craig Rucker of CFACT and Marlo Lewis will also cover some other Crazy Climate News of the Week. Psychology Today says global warming causes child abuse. The White House is ditching climate doom. And are even the green weenies of Europe giving up climate as a political issue?

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
6:54 Global Warming Causes Child Abuse
27:49 White House Ditches Climate Doom
45:08 Even Euro Greens Are Mum
56:57 Tragedy in Nepal
1:16:15 Memes of the Week
1:18:22 Advisor Metals (sponsor)
1:21:20 Q&A

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How many Bond villain schemes can climate alarmists come up with? Apparently one every month or so. The latest scheme to “save the planet” and help make solar installations viable at night is to put giant mirrors in space to reflect sunlight down on earth during the night. And the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, amazingly, just gave that idea the go-ahead.

On Episode 207 of The Climate Realism Show the Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Sterling Burnett, and Jim Lakely will talk about that Crazy Climate News of the Week. We will also cover the huge conflict of interest Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has for an important upcoming climate case, the “climate score scam” that harms the value of your home, and will the political success of socialists in the United States put the Green New Deal back on the table?

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Episode #213 of The Climate Realism Show is a special edition featuring two of the most prominent voices challenging the conventional climate narrative: Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore and astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon.

Patrick Moore helped launch Greenpeace and participated in some of the environmental movement’s most famous early campaigns, from confronting nuclear weapons testing to putting himself between whalers and their targets. But after 15 years with the organization, Moore walked away.

In this presentation, Moore explains why he believes Greenpeace abandoned its original humanitarian mission, became increasingly hostile toward modern civilization, and embraced what he argues is bad science in the name of environmental activism. He also takes on claims surrounding CO₂, global temperatures, wildfires, forests, fossil fuels, and the long-term history of Earth’s climate.

Then, astrophysicist Willie Soon joins the program for a deep dive into some of the biggest questions in climate science.

How much influence does the Sun have on Earth's climate? How reliable are modern temperature records? What role does the urban heat island effect play? And is the influence of carbon dioxide being overstated by climate models and the IPCC?

Soon discusses decades of research into the Sun-climate connection, solar variability, rural versus urban temperature records, climate sensitivity, and evidence of solar fingerprints in historical climate data from around the world. He also explains why he believes mainstream climate assessments have downplayed important natural drivers of climate change.

It's a different format for The Climate Realism Show this week, but one packed with science, history, and challenges to some of the most widely repeated claims in the climate debate.

Join the conversation in the comments and let us know: What do you think is the biggest climate myth that deserves more scrutiny?

The Climate Realism Show is produced by The Heartland Institute and brings together scientists, researchers, and policy experts to examine the climate stories and claims dominating the news.

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California may be only one state, but are its climate regulations effectively becoming national policy?

In Episode #212 of The Climate Realism Show, host Andy Singer is joined by Linnea Lueken, Anthony Watts, and H. Sterling Burnett to break down how California’s climate and environmental regulations can affect consumers, businesses, and supply chains far beyond the state’s borders.

The main story examines California rules targeting ships docked at the state’s massive ports, along with vehicle and equipment regulations that critics argue function as a “hidden climate tax” on Americans nationwide. With California ports handling a huge share of U.S. imports and the state’s enormous market influencing what manufacturers produce, how much power should one state have to shape the national economy?

The panel also digs into several other major climate and energy stories:

🍔 Drive-Thru Climate Ban: Culver City is considering restrictions on new drive-through restaurants, with greenhouse-gas emissions, vehicle idling, air quality, and pedestrian-oriented development among the reasons cited. Is blocking new drive-throughs meaningful climate policy, or regulatory overreach?

⚖️ Climate Chapter Pulled: The National Academies of Sciences temporarily removed a climate-science chapter from the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence while reviewing concerns about how the chapter was developed and potential conflicts involving people connected to climate litigation.

🔥 Solar Fire Surge: UK fire-service data show incidents involving solar-panel systems increased sharply between 2022 and 2025, significantly faster than the growth in installations. Are subsidies and aggressive deployment targets outpacing installation quality, inspections, and fire-safety standards?

🚢 California’s National Reach: From cargo ships and port infrastructure to cars, engines, and equipment, the panel examines whether California is simply exercising authority granted under federal law or using its economic power to impose de facto national regulations without a national vote.

Watch the full episode, join the discussion in the comments, and subscribe for more episodes of The Climate Realism Show.

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There is no let-up in the culture’s attempt to scare our kids about climate change. The latest development is a segment on Sesame Street to teach kids not to be scared of extreme weather. The producers deny it’s a political climate message, but even The New York Times doesn’t buy that.

On Episode 211 of The Climate Realism Show the Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Sterling Burnett, Jim Lakely … will also cover some other Crazy Climate News of the Week. Will the “gold bars” thrown off the Titanic as Biden’s EPA staffers were leaving end up in the hands of grifters after all? Speaking of well-connected climate activist nonprofit groups, many are raking in millions in foreign funds every year. And a prominent UK newspaper says it’s time for Britain to abandon Net Zero. Is this a tipping point for that ruinous policy?

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SHOW NOTES

1. EPA ‘GOLD BARS’ RESURFACE
NYTIMES: Appeals Court Says E.P.A. Cannot Block Billions in Climate Grants
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/climate/epa-climate-grants-appeals-court.html

2. FOLLOW THE FOREIGN MONEY
FOX NEWS: Watchdog unleashes database to expose 'loopholes' as $5B in foreign cash floods US nonprofits
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watchdog-unleashes-database-expose-loopholes-5b-foreign-cash-floods-nonprofits

3. MUPPETS MOUTH CLIMATE PROPAGANDA
NYTIMES: Extreme Weather Brings Fierce Winds, and Gentle Hugs, to Sesame Street
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/climate/sesame-street-storm-climate-change.html

4. NET ZERO IS LOST IN UK?
THE TELEGRAPH UK: We’ve lost the war against climate change. Time to scrap net zero. – The lanyard class should have known better than to believe it could re-engineer the world from Whitehall.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2026/07/30/uk-telegraph-editor-throws-in-the-climate-towel-weve-lost-the-war-against-climate-change-time-to-scrap-net-zero/

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
12:26 EPA 'Gold Bars' Resurface
26:05 Follow the Foreign Money
39:10 Muppets Mouth Climate Propaganda
49:35 Net Zero Losing in the UK?
1:05:57 Advisor Metals
1:08:42 Q&A

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