Steven F. Hayward

Steven F. Hayward

Credentials

Background

Steven F. Hayward is a conservative writer and journalist covering issues including environmentalism, law, economics, and public policy. He is the Thomas Smith Distinguished Fellow at the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ohio, where he directs their political economy program.4 โ€œSteven F. Hayward,โ€ American Enterprise Institute. Archived November 20, 2012. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/XISS4 5 โ€œSteven Hayward,โ€ Ashbrook. Archived October 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/riMAv 6 โ€œMeet the Faculty,โ€ Pepperdine School of Public Policy. Archived October 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/fwMow

Hayward is a blogger PowerLine, a conservative blog run by the Center for the American Experiment’s (CAE) president John Hinderaker. Hayward has also contributed to CAE as a report co-author criticizing wind energy in Minnesota.7 Ricardo Lopez. โ€œConservative blogger, attorney takes helm of Center of the American Experiment,โ€ Star Tribune, January 17, 2016. Archived October 20, 2017. 8 โ€œAbout Us,โ€ PowerLine. Archived October 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/tpR4Z

Hayward has ties to many conservative think tanks. He has been a senior fellow in environmental studies at at the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), and Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He is also a director of the Donors Capital Fund (DCF), a group that works with DonorsTrust to give hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to numerous groups questioning mainstream climate science. Hayward is a board member of the Institute for Energy Research (IER).9 โ€œForm 990: Donors Capital Fund, Incโ€ (PDF), Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog. 10 โ€œBoard of Directors,โ€ Donors Capital Fund. Archived October 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/PJcIr 11 โ€œBOARD OF DIRECTORS,โ€ Institute for Energy Research. Archived September 26, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/NRdhd

The American Enterprise Institute and Pacific Research Institute are both heavily funded by oil billionaires Koch Industries, and Richard Mellon Scaife.

Stance on Climate Change

April 3, 2017

In a Weekly Standard profile he wrote on conservative Republican Jay Faison, who Hayward said โ€œbelieves climate change is a serious threat,โ€ Hayward concludes that the 97% consensus is inaccurate and that renewable energy such as wind and solar is not the answer:12 โ€œA Conservative Takes on Climate Change,โ€ The Weekly Standard, April 3, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/BdCfH

โ€œWhile climate activists like [Tom] Steyer and [Bill’ McKibben recite the (inaccurate) slogan about how ’97 percent of scientists โ€œbelieveโ€ in climate change,’they shift the subject when it is pointed out that 100 percent of public and private long-term energy forecasts [โ€ฆ] find that fossil fuels will be the dominant source of energy for the planet for decades to come, and no amount of solar and wind power worship is going to change that. Who are the real ‘deniers,’ then? With environmentalists becoming increasingly shrill and extreme, as do all coercive utopians detached from reality, Faison’s approachโ€”encouraging innovation around current energy sources like nuclear, coal, and hydropower while seeking new breakthrough energy technologiesโ€”may well turn out to be the most farsighted if serious climate disruption comes to pass.โ€13 โ€œA Conservative Takes on Climate Change,โ€ The Weekly Standard, April 3, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/BdCfH

June 9, 2015

Writing at Forbes, Hayward described climate change as a โ€œsecular religionโ€ of โ€œleftists and environmentalistsโ€:14 Steven F. Hayward. โ€œWhy The Left Needs Climate Change,โ€ Forbes, June 9, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/f2e2e

โ€œ[P]erhaps a better metaphor for true-believing environmentalism is drug addiction: the addictive need for another rush of euphoria, followed by the crash or pains of withdrawal, and the diminishing returns of the next fix. For thereโ€™s always a next fix for environmentalists: fracking, bee colony collapse disorder, de-forestation, drought, floods, plastic bags โ€ฆ the list is endless,โ€ Hayward wrote.

โ€œActivist liberal elites always need a Grand Cause to satisfy their messianic needs, or for the political equivalent of a dopamine rush. For such people, the only thing worse that catastrophic climate change is the catastrophe of not having a catastrophe to obsess overโ€”and use as an excuse to extend political control over people and resources, which is the one-side-fits-all answer for every new crisis that starts through the issue-attention cycle.โ€

April 29, 2013

Hayward wrote in The Weekly Standard:15 Steven F. Hayward. โ€œThe Climate Circus Leaves Town,โ€ The Weekly Standard, April 29, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/PLTRO

โ€œThe pause in global warmingโ€‹โ€‹โ€”โ€‹โ€‹now going on 15 yearsโ€‹โ€‹โ€”โ€‹โ€‹has become so obvious that many of the leading climate scientists are grudgingly admitting that global warming has stopped.โ€

August 24, 2007

โ€œThe planet is warming. Human beings are playing a substantial role in that warming. How large that warming is going to be and how we ought to respond to it is still an open question.โ€16 โ€œInconvenient Truth or Convenient Fiction: Sorting out Sense from Nonsense on Global Warming,โ€ Pacific Research Institute, August 24, 2007. Archived May 5, 2012. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/zGPMD

Key Quotes

June 15, 2014

Writing at The Weekly Standard, Hayward describes organizations promoting climate change denial including the Cato Institute, The Heartland Institute, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute as โ€œboutique operations next to the environmental establishment.โ€17 Steven F. Hayward. โ€œClimate Cultists,โ€ The Weekly Standard, June 16, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/QOySv

โ€œThe total budgets for all of these efforts would probably not add up to a monthโ€™s spending by just the Sierra Club. And yet we are to believe that this comparatively small effort has kept the climate change agenda at bay,โ€ Hayward wrote.18 Steven F. Hayward. โ€œClimate Cultists,โ€ The Weekly Standard, June 16, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/QOySv

March 5, 2012

โ€œTrue, Heartlandโ€™s board documents reveal seven-figure contributions for their climate work from one ‘anonymous donor,’ but environmental organizations take in many multiples of Heartlandโ€™s total budget in anonymous donations washed through the left-wing Tides Foundation.โ€19 Steven F. Hayward. โ€œWhy the Climate Skeptics Are Winning,โ€ The Weekly Standard, Mar 5, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 24. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/IVBZx

โ€œAs with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.โ€20 Steven F. Hayward. โ€œWhy the Climate Skeptics Are Winning,โ€ The Weekly Standard, Mar 5, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 24. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/IVBZx

January 3, 2011

Writing at the AEI website, Hayward describes climate change as a โ€œnon-falsifiable hypothesisโ€:21 Steven F. Hayward. โ€œWhy Climate Change Reminds Me of a T.S. Eliot Poem,โ€ AEI, January 3, 2011. Archived October 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/NDbBl

โ€œAt some point, however, advocates of non-falsifiable hypotheses end up sleeping on park benches muttering about how ‘the Man,’ or the CIA chip in his head, or international bankers, or โ€ฆ someone, is keeping the truth under wraps. [โ€ฆ] Sometimes, such people get institutionalized, or medicated. And some become global warming advocates.โ€

June 21, 2010

โ€œEven if the costs of the spill exceed $15 billion (to be borne by BP) as now seems likely, the benefits of continued offshore oil production still exceed the costs by a wide margin. Economist Peter Passell estimates a net economic benefit of nearly a trillion dollars from continued offshore production. This will not be a popular position to hold so long as live streaming video of the oil spill continues and the media continue to cover the spill in a state of near hysteria. But it is at precisely such times that rational analysis needs to be heard.โ€22 Steven Hayward. โ€œHow to Think About Oil Spills: The perils of overreaction,โ€ The Weekly Standard, Jun 21, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 38. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/zYRLh

March 15, 2010

โ€œ[W]e cannot rule out the possibility that the changes of recent decades are part of a natural rebound from the ‘Little Ice Age’ that followed the medieval warm period and ended in the 19th century.โ€23 Steven F. Hayward. โ€œIn Denial: The meltdown of the climate campaign,โ€ The Weekly Standard, Mar 15, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 25. Archived August 17, 2010. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/rcmNK

February 19, 2007

โ€œIn any event, it has never been true that we ignore mainstream science; and anyone who reads AEI publications closely can see that we are not ‘skeptics’ about warming. It is possible to accept the general consensus about the existence of global warming while having valid questions about the extent of warming, the consequences of warming, and the appropriate responses.โ€24 Steven F. Hayward. โ€œScenes from the Climate Inquisition,โ€ The Weekly Standard, Feb 19, 2007, Vol. 12, No. 22. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/iGPrt

May 22, 2006

โ€œA sensible climate policy would emphasize building resilience into our capacity to adapt to climate changesโ€“whether cooling or warming; whether wholly natural, wholly man-made, or somewhere in between.โ€25 Steven F. Hayward. โ€œAcclimatizing: How to Think Sensibly, or Ridiculously, about Global Warming,โ€ National Review, May 22, 2006. Republished by the American Enterprise Institute. Archived February 4, 2007. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9TIRK

Index of Leading Environmental Indicators

Hayward is the author of the โ€œIndex of Leading Environmental Indicators,โ€ co-published by the American Enterprise Institute and the Pacific Research Institute between 1996 and 2009. The studies generally suggest the environment is improving over time, and implies that little to no intervention is required to solve the world’s environmental problems.

It is also dismissive of global warming dangers. For example, in the 2009 report, Hayward declared:

โ€œThe data show that 2008 was the coolest year since 2000, and there has been no discernible warming for the last decade, after two decades of steady warming between 1979 and 1998.โ€26 โ€œIndex of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2009 Report,โ€ Pacific Research Institute, April 16, 2009 .January 15, 2012. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pQ3D1

View the reports below:

Key Deeds

August 15, 2019

Hayward posted a critical review of a Nature Communications article that ranked 386 โ€œclimate change contrariansโ€ based on media visibility. The article also ranked bona fide climate scientists and found that deniers had nearly 50% more visibility in the media than mainstream scientists.27 Steven Hayward. โ€œSteve and John Make the Climate Blacklist!,โ€ powerlineblog.com, August 15, 2019. Archived August 15, 2019. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/IProD 28 Alexander Michael Petersen, Emmanuel M. Vincent, Anthony LeRoy Westerling. โ€œDiscrepancy in scientific authority and media visibility of climate change scientists and contrarians,โ€ Nature Communications, August 13, 2019. Archived August 14, 2019. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/WC84u. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

Though Hayward referred to the analysis as โ€œbullshitโ€ he expressed satisfaction with his 40th place ranking and felt that he was in โ€œpretty great companyโ€ with the likes of Marc Morano (#1), Freeman Dyson, Ross McKitrick, and John Hinderaker, among others.29 Steven Hayward. โ€œSteve and John Make the Climate Blacklist!,โ€ powerlineblog.com, August 15, 2019. Archived August 15, 2019. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/IProD

Appearing immediately after Morano in the studyโ€™s rankings were Sen. James Inhofe, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Judith Curry, and Roy Spencer.30 Steven Hayward. โ€œSteve and John Make the Climate Blacklist!,โ€ powerlineblog.com, August 15, 2019. Archived August 15, 2019. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/IProD 31 Alexander Michael Petersen, Emmanuel M. Vincent, Anthony LeRoy Westerling. โ€œDiscrepancy in scientific authority and media visibility of climate change scientists and contrarians,โ€ Nature Communications, August 13, 2019. Archived August 14, 2019. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/WC84u. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

Hayward concluded:

โ€œThis is yet another sign of the desperation of the climatistas, whose failure to persuade is prompting their authoritarian streak to become more obvious and frantic. [โ€ฆ] with the climatistas embarrassing themselves on a daily basis, I donโ€™t really need to do much besides sit back and fire up my coal-powered popcorn machine.โ€32 Steven Hayward. โ€œSteve and John Make the Climate Blacklist!,โ€ powerlineblog.com, August 15, 2019. Archived August 15, 2019. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/IProD

June 4, 2018

In an article titled โ€œClimate Change Has Run Its Course,โ€ Hayward wrote in The Wall Street Journal that โ€œclimate change is no longer a pre-eminent policy issue.โ€33 โ€œClimate Change Has Run Its Course,โ€ The Wal Street Journal, June 4, 2018. Archived June 6, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/r06JW

โ€œClimate change is over. No, Iโ€™m not saying the climate will not change in the future, or that human influence on the climate is negligible. I mean simply that climate change is no longer a pre-eminent policy issue,โ€ Hayward claimed.

โ€œThe descent of climate change into the abyss of social-justice identity politics represents the last gasp of a cause that has lost its vitality. Climate alarm is like a car alarmโ€”a blaring noise people are tuning out.โ€34 โ€œClimate Change Has Run Its Course,โ€ The Wal Street Journal, June 4, 2018. Archived June 6, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/r06JW

October 10, 2017

Hayward was co-author of a report written for the Center of the American Experiment critical of wind power in Minnesota. While the full report does not explicitly promote a fall back to coal-fired power plants, it claims that Minnesota has โ€œlittle to showโ€ for its investment in wind power, โ€œexcept higher electricity bills.โ€35 Don Davis. โ€œIs wind power living up to potential? Conservative groups says no, supporters disagree,โ€ Brainerd Dispatch, October 10, 2017. Archived October 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/zJm5l 36 โ€œEnergy Policy in Minnesota: The High Cost of Failureโ€ (PDF), October 19, 2017.

โ€œMinnesota is actually failing to achieve the object of its policy, which is to reduce greenhouse gases,โ€ said Hayward37 Don Davis. โ€œIs wind power living up to potential? Conservative groups says no, supporters disagree,โ€ Brainerd Dispatch, October 10, 2017. Archived October 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/zJm5l

SourceWatch describes the Center for the American Experiment (CAE) as a โ€œright-wing pressure groupโ€ that works to influence legislation in Minnesota. CAE is also a member of the State Policy Network, a Koch-funded network of conservative think tanks fighting for limited government and regularly opposing climate change legislation in the US.38 โ€œCenter of the American Experiment,โ€ SourceWatch. Accessed October 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/2iFMX 39 โ€œCenter for the American Experiment,โ€ State Policy Network. Archived October 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/vwXzt

CAE’s president, John Hinderaker, runs the conservative blog Power Line where Steven Hayward is also listed as a blogger.40 Ricardo Lopez. โ€œConservative blogger, attorney takes helm of Center of the American Experiment,โ€ Star Tribune, January 17, 2016. Archived October 20, 2017.

Critics have called the report short-sighted at best, and wrong at worst. Beth Soholt, Executive Director of Wind of the Wires, said Minnesota’s Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) had already considered the economics behind its energy choices in a โ€œthoughtful and thoroughโ€ manner.41 Don Davis. โ€œIs wind power living up to potential? Conservative groups says no, supporters disagree,โ€ Brainerd Dispatch, October 10, 2017. Archived October 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/zJm5l

The report suggested in its conclusion that โ€œInstead of rubberstamping a renewable energy project just because it might advance Minnesotaโ€™s green energy goals, moving forward the MPUC should now take greater care in evaluating alternatives and whether the project undermines competitive electricity rates.42 โ€œEnergy Policy in Minnesota: The High Cost of Failureโ€ (PDF), October 19, 2017.

August 28, 2017

While climate scientists such as Michael Mann have noted that the flooding related to severe storms such as Hurricane Harvey can be said โ€œwith great confidenceโ€ to have worsened the flooding, Hayward posted the alternate view of Roy Spencer at PowerLine, claiming that โ€œThe rainfall amounts are entirely precedented.โ€43 Michael E Mann. โ€œIt’s a fact: climate change made Hurricane Harvey more deadly,โ€ The Guardian, August 28, 2017. Archived October 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/kHT5X 44 โ€œTHE TEXAS STORM AND CLIMATE CHANGE,โ€ PowerLine, August 28, 2017. Archived October 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/iMTGn

November 2014

Hayward spoke at HIllsale College as part of it’s 2014 Center for Constructive Alternatives โ€œCCAโ€ series. His talk was titled โ€œa funny thing happened on the way to global warming.โ€45 โ€œA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Global Warming,โ€ YouTube video uploaded by user โ€œHillsdale College,โ€ November 11, 2014. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

According to Hayward, โ€œthree funny things happened on the way to global warming:โ€46 โ€œA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Global Warming,โ€ YouTube video uploaded by user โ€œHillsdale College,โ€ November 11, 2014. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

โ€œFirst, global warming stopped. Imagine that. Second, the policy agenda of the ‘climatistas,’ as I call them, or an even better term for the climate crusaders is ‘thermageddonites’โ€”I didn’t think of that, that’s Britain’s Lord Monckton came up with that and I think it’s really goodโ€”but the policy agenda of the ‘climatistas’ has been revealed to be completely absurd. [โ€ฆ] Even if catastrophic human-caused climate change turned out to be true, environmentalists are the last people you’d want to put in charge of dealing with the problem.โ€47 โ€œA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Global Warming,โ€ YouTube video uploaded by user โ€œHillsdale College,โ€ November 11, 2014. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

The third thing, Hayward notes, is โ€œthe revival of the oil and gas energy sector to the technological revolution of directional drilling and ‘rock massaging’; that’s what I call fracking.โ€ View the full video below.48 โ€œA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Global Warming,โ€ YouTube video uploaded by user โ€œHillsdale College,โ€ November 11, 2014. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

May 25, 2011

Hayward testified before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations opposing U.N. climate talks. He posted excerpts from his testimony at the National Review, and his complete written testimony is also available on the AEI website.49 โ€œU.N. Climate Talks Not About Temperature,โ€ National Review, May 26, 2011. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/W3fIx

โ€œ[T]he international diplomacy of climate change is the most implausible and unpromising initiative since the disarmament talks of the 1930s, and for many of the same reasons,โ€ Hayward began his testimony to the committee.50 โ€œU.N. Climate Talks Not About Temperature,โ€ National Review, May 26, 2011. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/W3fIx

โ€œThe diplomatic approachโ€”the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC)โ€”first set in motion formally at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 has reached a dead end,โ€ he added.51 โ€œU.N. Climate Talks Not About Temperature,โ€ National Review, May 26, 2011. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/W3fIx

Hayward pushes an alternative to the U.N. climate talks through a report by the conservative AEI and Brookings Institution which โ€œwould ignore the UNโ€ and follow โ€œa process begun tentatively by the Bush Administration.โ€52 โ€œU.N. Climate Talks Not About Temperature,โ€ National Review, May 26, 2011. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/W3fIx

For โ€œmore detailed explanation of this strategy,โ€ Hayward points to work by Roger Pielke Jr., as well as a 2009 study titled โ€œThe Hartwell paperโ€ funded by the Japan Iron and Steel Federation, and the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association among other groups.53 โ€œU.N. Climate Talks Not About Temperature,โ€ National Review, May 26, 2011. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/W3fIx 54 โ€œThe Hartwell paper,โ€ The London Shool of Economics and Political Science, June 6, 2012. Archived October 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/mZjcf

Hayward later expressed similar views in an interview with the The Wall Street Journal:55 โ€œAnother Climate Crack-Up,โ€ AEI, December 13, 2011. Archived .mp4 on filea at DeSmog.

โ€œThese climate talks are doing nothing to solve the problem of global warmig,โ€ Hayward said, describing the talks as a โ€œclimate circus.โ€56 โ€œAnother Climate Crack-Up,โ€ AEI, December 13, 2011. Archived .mp4 on filea at DeSmog.

April 2011

Steven Hayward is the author of the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) publication titled the โ€œAlmanac of Environmental Trends (PDF)โ€ which is published every year on Earth Day.57 โ€œ2011 Almanac of Environmental Trendโ€ (PDF), Pacific Research Institute, April, 2011. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

The corresponding website, environmentaltrends.org, describes its vision as to illuminate the nature and causes of environmental conditions in the U.S. and around the world, and to highlight lessons that can be learned from the significant environmental progress that has occurred in many areas.โ€58 โ€œAbout,โ€ Environmentaltrends. Archived June 16, 2012. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/XzkH3

Notable among the website’s staff, other than Hayward himself, is climate change skeptic Kenneth P. Green who is associated with a number of think tanks including AEI, the Fraser Institute, and the Reason Foundation.59 โ€œStaff membersโ€ Environmentaltrends. Archived May 18, 2011. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/GIvge

According to the print version of the PRI Report, the chief drivers of environmental improvement are economic growth, constantly increasing resource efficiency, technological innovation in pollution control, and โ€œthe deepening of environmental values among the American public.โ€ It paints a less favorable picture for government policy, which Hayward describes as a โ€œa lagging indicator, often achieving results at needlessly high cost, and sometimes failing completely.โ€60 โ€œ2011 Almanac of Environmental Trendโ€ (PDF), Pacific Research Institute, April, 2011. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

The report includes sections on Air Quality (Advocacy Groups โ€œdistort air quality data to reinforce public anxietyโ€), Energy (We have lots of fossil fuels so we shouldn’t worry), Climate Change (the science isn’t settled), Water Quality (consistently improving), Toxic Chemicals (the EPA’s regulations for toxic chemicals are โ€œout of all proportionโ€) Forests and Land (we have lots of trees, so we shouldn’t worry), Biodiversity (it’s โ€œimpossible to draw definite conclusionsโ€ about species loss, but there are โ€œstable or improving fish and bird habitatsโ€), and Public Opinion (people aren’t as worried about the environment).61 โ€œ2011 Almanac of Environmental Trendโ€ (PDF), Pacific Research Institute, April, 2011. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

In his report, Hayward asserts that one of the factors skewing public opinion on environmental quality in the U.S. is environmental advocacy groups โ€œ[โ€ฆ] for whom good news is bad news.โ€62 โ€œ2011 Almanac of Environmental Trendโ€ (PDF), Pacific Research Institute, April, 2011. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

According the section of his report on โ€œClimate Change,โ€ Hayward suggests that climate change has natural causes:63 โ€œ2011 Almanac of Environmental Trendโ€ (PDF), Pacific Research Institute, April, 2011. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

โ€œThe historical record suggests that climate shifts can happen suddenly, for reasons that remain unclear. The argument that currently observable climate changes are outside the range of normal climate variability is a key tenet of the climate campaign, and despite the incessant refrain about the โ€œconsensusโ€ that โ€œthe debate is over,โ€ this core question is far from settled.โ€64 โ€œ2011 Almanac of Environmental Trendโ€ (PDF), Pacific Research Institute, April, 2011. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

March 15, 2010

Hayward promoted the โ€œClimategateโ€ controversy in an article for The Weekly Standard.65 Steven F. Hayward. โ€œIn Denial: The meltdown of the climate campaign,โ€ The Weekly Standard, Mar 15, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 25. Archived August 17, 2010. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/rcmNK

According to Hayward, โ€œSkeptics have known and tried to publicize all of these contrarian or confounding scientific findings [that climate change is natural], but the compliant news media routinely ignored all of them, enabling the IPCC to get away with its serial exaggeration and blatant advocacy for more than a decade.66 Steven F. Hayward. โ€œIn Denial: The meltdown of the climate campaign,โ€ The Weekly Standard, Mar 15, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 25. Archived August 17, 2010. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/rcmNK

September 25โ€“27, 2008

Hayward presented a paper at the third annual โ€œFree Market Forum.โ€ In his paper, titled โ€œThe Use and Abuse of Global Warming,โ€ Hayward warns that combatting climate change would result in the expansion of government:67 โ€œ2008 Free Market Forum,โ€ Hillsdale College. Archived October 20, 2017. 68 โ€œThe Use and Abuse of Global Warming: The Threat to Free Governmentโ€ (PDF), retrieved from Hillsdale.edu.

โ€œFirst, even if the conventional alarmist version of extreme global warming turns out to be correctโ€”the reasons to be skeptical of climate catastrophe will have to be left to another paperโ€”the conventional remedies of environmentalists and the international community are a prescription for catastrophic bureaucratic expansion, centralization of unaccountable power, dirigiste economics, and wholesale political corruption,โ€ he writes.69 โ€œThe Use and Abuse of Global Warming: The Threat to Free Governmentโ€ (PDF), retrieved from Hillsdale.edu.

August 24, 2007

Hayward starred in a Pacific Research Institute video titled โ€œInconvenient Truth or Convenient Fiction: Sorting out Sense from Nonsense on Global Warming.โ€70 โ€œInconvenient Truth or Convenient Fiction: Sorting out Sense from Nonsense on Global Warming,โ€ Pacific Research Institute, August 24, 2007. Archived May 5, 2012. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/zGPMD

July 5, 2006

As DeSmog reported,71Richard Littlemore. “AEI Seeks Scientists for Sale: $10,000 to First Taker,” DeSmog, November 9, 2006. Hayward was a co-author of a July 2006 letter sent by the American Enterprise Institute to an unknown number of scientists, looking for someone – at a rate of $10,000 for 10,000 words – whose review โ€œthoughtfully explores the limitations of climate model outputs as they pertain to the development of climate policy.โ€72“Dear Prof. Schroeder:” (PDF), American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, July 5, 2006. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

The Guardian reported on the AEI study here.73 Ian Sample. โ€œScientists offered cash to dispute climate study,โ€ The Guardian, February 2, 2007. Archived February 18, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/6jm6M Hayward and Green responded in an article at The Weekly Standard where they described The Guardian’s reporting as “a journalistic hit piece.” They claimed that “[e]very claim in the story was false or grossly distorted.”74Kenneth P. Green and Steven F. Hayward. “Scenes from the Climate Inquisition,” The Weekly Standard, Vol. 12, No. 22 (February 19, 2007). Archived June 3, 2012. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/LQqCm

“Our offer of an honorarium of up to $10,000 to busy scientists to review several thousand pages of material and write an original analysis in the range of 7,500 to 10,000 words is entirely in line with honoraria AEI and similar organizations pay to distinguished economists and legal scholars for commissioned work,” they wrote.75Kenneth P. Green and Steven F. Hayward. “Scenes from the Climate Inquisition,” The Weekly Standard, Vol. 12, No. 22 (February 19, 2007). Archived June 3, 2012. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/LQqCm

“The climate inquisition is eliminating any space for sensible criticism of the climate science process or moderate deliberation about policy,” they concluded.76Kenneth P. Green and Steven F. Hayward. “Scenes from the Climate Inquisition,” The Weekly Standard, Vol. 12, No. 22 (February 19, 2007). Archived June 3, 2012. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/LQqCm

August 2, 2002

Hayward signed a letter by Myron Ebell and Fred L. Smith addressed to President George W. Bush, congratulating the President for not attending the World Summit on sustainable Development in Johannesburg.77 โ€œAn Open Letter To President Bush About The World Summit On Sustainable Development,โ€œ Competitive Enterprise Institute, August 2, 2002. Archived November 5, 2002. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/mMFvn

โ€œWe applaud your decision not to attend the summit in person,โ€ the letter told President Bush. โ€œAlthough so-called environmental groups may in the next few weeks pressure you to attend, we believe there are good reasons not to give in to this pressure.โ€78 โ€œAn Open Letter To President Bush About The World Summit On Sustainable Development,โ€œ Competitive Enterprise Institute, August 2, 2002. Archived November 5, 2002. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/mMFvn

February 4, 2001

Hayward signed a letter to President Bush requesting that he withdraw from the โ€œClimate Action Report 2002,โ€ and that the report be rewritten based on โ€œsound science.โ€ The letter also recommends that Bush โ€œdismiss or re-assign all administration employees who are not pursuing your agenda, just as you have done in several similar instances.โ€79 โ€œJoint Letter To President Bush On The EPA’s Climate Action Report,โ€ Competitive Enterprise Institute. June 7, 2002. Archived February 18, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/VpMEL

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Hayward as published hundreds of articles in various magazines and blogs including including:

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  • Almanac of Environmental Trends. Pacific Research Institute, April 2011.
  • The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980.
  • The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counter-Revolution, 1980-1989 (CrownForum books).
  • Churchill on Leadership, and Greatness: Reagan Churchill, and the Making of Modern Statesmen.

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