CLIMATE CHANGE

The so-called climate crisis is a sham

There cannot be a climate

1 crisis when temperatures Key Points
are unusually cool. • There cannot be a climate
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has admitted,2 are unusually cool.
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that temperatures were warmer than today throughout most • Virtually every alarmist
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of the time period that human civilization has existed. climate prediction has
• Temperatures would have to keep warming at their present proven false.
pace for at least another century or two before we reach • Carbon dioxide and
temperatures that were common during early human warmer temperatures are a
civilization. blessing, not a curse.
• There can be no climate crisis – based on the notion of • Climate change policies
dangerously high temperatures – when humans have cause far more harm than
thrived in temperatures much warmer than today for most climate change.
of the last 12,000 years.

Virtually every alarmist climate prediction

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• During recent decades as temperatures have modestly
warmed:
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tropical Hurricanes Tornadoes Drought Wildfires
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decline in the global a decline in the set records for the have measured a
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and America recently tornadoes.5 country experiencing decrease in wildfires
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• The mere fact that ‘global warming’ has not • For a fuller examination of alarmist climate
ended all extreme weather events doesn’t mean predictions, see ClimateAtAGlance.com.
that global warming now causes all extreme
weather events. By nearly every measure,
extreme weather events are now less frequent,
not more frequent.

The Heartland Institute / Heartland.org / For more info, contact us at Think@Heartland.org

 Carbon dioxide and warmer temperatures
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• Scientists have documented that cold causes 17 times more global deaths than heat.9

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Any warming trend has saved, and will save, far This is also true in America, where far more
more lives from cold deaths than it will cause people die during winter than during summer.10
from heat deaths.

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• NASA satellites have documented a remarkable increase in global vegetation in recent
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decades, which NASA attributes directly to more atmospheric carbon dioxide.11

This is a tremendous benefit to plant species,

animal species, and ecosystems throughout the
world.

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• Global crop production, and crop production • Virtually every form of extreme weather event
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regular basis with longer growing seasons and frequent.14
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Climate change policies cause far

4 more harm than climate change.
• Anti-fossil fuel policies raise prices and fan the
flames of inflation.
• Anti-fossil fuel policies send money and jobs
from America to China.
• Anti-fossil fuel policies make America dependent
on the goodwill of hostile nations for our energy
security.
• Wind and solar power are the antithesis of land
conservation and require developing huge swaths
of undeveloped land.
• Wind and solar power kill millions of birds, bats,
and other species each year.
• Wind and solar power rely on forced child labor
in Africa and slave labor in China.

The Heartland Institute / Heartland.org / For more info, contact us at Think@Heartland.org