Tom Harris

Tom Harris is Executive Director of ICSC and a policy advisor to Heartland.

New lessons from Hurricane Florence

November 1, 2018 Dr. Tim Ball Tom Harris

The devastation caused by September’s Hurricane Florence and related tornadoes are certainly appalling, and condolences are in order. However, seen in a long-term perspective, what humans define as disasters are an opportunity for improvement, just like in nature. We must rethink disasters and reduce risk as much as reasonably possible but also recognize that they…

More evidence surfaces against so-called global warming

October 25, 2018 Jay Lehr Tom Harris

United Nations global warming alarmists are at it again. Recently, U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) bureaucrats sat stone-faced on television in South Korea predicting that the planet would all but perish in ten years if carbon dioxide (CO2) is allowed to continue to rise in the Earth’s atmosphere. Their solution, as presented in…

Unlocking our vast natural resources

October 18, 2018 Jay Lehr Tom Harris

Just over a decade ago, America’s energy outlook was revolutionized by technological advances in hydraulic fracturing, commonly called “fracking.” While fracking, the injection of high-pressure water, sand and chemicals into rock to force natural gas and oil to be released, has been used in vertical wells since 1947, new techniques of horizontal drilling are resulting…

Trump’s EPA is rolling back ridiculous car standards

October 11, 2018 Jay Lehr Tom Harris

It began to go wrong in the late 1950s when M. King Hubbert of the U.S. Geological Survey predicted that America would start to run out of oil by the end of the 1960s. His prediction was called Peak Oil, defined as the point at which our nation, and perhaps the world, would use more…

A ‘decarbonized Earth’ would be a world devoid of life

September 13, 2018 Jay Lehr Tom Harris

In their August 23 press release, “4 Major California cities commit to carbon-free buildings by 2050,” the Sierra Club proclaimed, “The cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose and Santa Monica just announced their intent to join 15 other cities around the world and adopt a plan for zero-carbon buildings by 2050.” The World…

America First Energy Conference sets the record straight

August 30, 2018 Jay Lehr Tom Harris

“It will be an amazing day,” announced Dr. Tim Huelskamp at the start of the America First Energy Conference (AFEC) held on August 7 in New Orleans. “You’re going to learn a lot… about so many issues, issues many in the media do not want us to know about.” Indeed, we did. For, as Huelskamp,…