The Gathering Storm in Global Warming: Should We Be Afraid?

"U.S. climate has already changed, study finds, citing heat and floods." -- New York Timesheadline, May 7, 2014 Is it really getting hotter and should we be worried? "Global warming" is being blamed for every conceivable natural disaster, whether it involves severe cold in the Northeast this past winter or flooding in Miami. The New York Times has been running front-page stories about the terrible consequences of global warming, citing the latest federal government study that temperatures could rise an average 10 degrees by the end of this century. However, average temperatures have shown little change in the past two decades. Hurricanes and tornadoes are at record lows... blizzards, droughts and floods are below past extremes... and polar sea ice has started to increase again. Sponsored Content The Fed’s Disastrous New “Catch-22” Game Plan If there’s anything we’ve learned during the last two decades, it’s that nobody has more power over America’s economy and stock market than the Chairman of the Federal Reserve System -- not even the President. New Fed Chair Janet Yellen is smart, accomplished, powerful… and dead wrong about the U.S. economy. The Fed’s new game plan will raise the cost of everything, wreak havoc on bonds and housing, and trigger a roller coaster of volatility. By clicking here now, you’ll find 30 specific investments -- plus more than a dozen moneymaking techniques -- in the “playbook” I’ve put together that will guide you through the coming storm, even making you rich in the process!

Is global warming a legitimate concern or a false alarm aimed to push through more anti-growth legislation and government regulations? We had a big debate last year atFreedomFest about global warming withMichael Shermer, editor of Skepticmagazine and a columnist for Scientific American, and James Taylor, climate expert at the Heartland Institute. I was surprised that the editor of Skepticmagazine wasn't more skeptical of the biases among the global-warming crowd. "Climate change from fossil fuel emissions increasingly appears to have been greatly overestimated and in any event is likely to be rendered irrelevant by advances in technology," according to Walter Starck, policy analyst at Heartland. Heartland's Climate Change Conference This summer, the Heartland Institute is holding its 9th International Conference on Climate Change right before FreedomFest. The July 7-9 climate change conference will take place at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Learn from the top geo-climate specialists, economists and policy experts about the real costs of trying to stop global warming. Hear leaders speak out against global warming alarmism. FreedomFest is proud to be a co-sponsor of this event. To learn more and to sign up, call the Heartland Institute at 1-312-377-4000, or go to http://climateconference.heartland.org/.