by the Heartland Institute

About the author: The Heartland Institute is a nonprofit public policy research organization.

Much of what is reported about global warming in newspapers and on television is wrong. Unfortunately, few reporters have the training or background needed to distinguish real science and economic facts from political and ideological “spin.”

Here are [some] facts you should know about global warming.

Most scientists do not believe human activities threaten to disrupt the Earth’s climate.

Over 17,000 scientists have signed a petition saying, in part, “there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate...