
Environment and Climate News Podcast
Hosted by Jim Lakely and Anthony Watts and Linnea Lueken and Sterling Burnett · The Heartland Institute
2.7from 189 ratings
- 224
- Episodes
- 121
- Transcribed
- 189
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 13M
- YouTube views
About Environment and Climate News Podcast
A weekly live show every Friday at 1 p.m. ET. The Heartland Institute's Anthony Watts, H. Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, host Jim Lakely, and special guests review the "Crazy Climate News of the Week" and the biggest stories on global climate and energy policy from a realist, not alarmist, point of view.
- Publisher
- The Heartland Institute
- Category
- news · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Jun 2022
- Latest episode
- 25 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
121 of 224 episodes have a transcript.

25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Covering NYC Climate Week — The Climate Realism Show #218

18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Massive Victory: EPA Power Grab Ends — The Climate Realism Show #217

11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
What The Heck Is Dairy Net Zero? - TCRS #216
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Covering NYC Climate Week — The Climate Realism Show #218
Published 25 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But you'll see that a lot of these companies are going to be leaning on natural gas. I think we're going to see a big boom of SMRs, but it won't be as like massive an influence on our grid infrastructure as people are predicting. Well, it'll take longer time than people, you know, everyone's talking about SMRs, but they're still years off. The first one hasn't been licensed yet. China may be building them as fast as possible, but in the U.S., we have all these regulatory hurdles they have to jump through once we even get designs that we think are good designs. Now, you know, it... If you look at it, we have a board member. […]
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- Tom Harris
- Steve Milloy
- Lois Perry
- Samantha Fillmore
- Craig Rucker
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- YouTube views
- 12,715,295
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 2.7 / 5
- 169 ratings
- Spotify
- 2.8 / 5
- 20 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 86 / 100
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 95
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Who hosts Environment and Climate News Podcast?
Jim Lakely and Anthony Watts and Linnea Lueken and Sterling Burnett host the show. Published by The Heartland Institute.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Environment and Climate News Podcast take guests?
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