Environment · Policy · Science
🎙 Guest: Bonner Cohen, PhD · 📅 Aired September 18, 2026 · ⏱ 55 min episode
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Introduction
Is the climate crisis as settled as we are told? Dr. Susan Downs sits down with Bonner Cohen, PhD — one of America’s most respected voices on energy, natural resources, and environmental policy — to examine the science, the politics, and the policies behind the climate change narrative. Dr. Cohen brings decades of research and Congressional testimony to bear on the questions mainstream media rarely asks.
Bonner Cohen, PhD
Senior Fellow, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) · Senior Policy Adviser, Heartland Institute · Senior Policy Advisor, National Center for Public Policy Research · Adjunct Scholar, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Bonner R. Cohen is a senior fellow at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, where he concentrates on energy, natural resources, and international relations. He also serves as a senior policy adviser with the Heartland Institute, senior policy advisor at the National Center for Public Policy Research, and as adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Articles by Dr. Cohen have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, New York Post, Washington Times, National Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, Detroit News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Miami Herald, and dozens of other newspapers in the US and Canada. He has been interviewed on Fox News, CNN, Fox Business Channel, BBC, BBC Worldwide Television, NBC, NPR, N 24 (German language news channel), Voice of Russia, and scores of radio stations in the US.
Dr. Cohen has testified before the US Senate committees on Energy & Natural Resources and Environment & Public Works, as well as the US House committees on Natural Resources and Judiciary. He has spoken at conferences in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Bangladesh.
Dr. Cohen is the author of two books: The Green Wave: Environmentalism and its Consequences (Washington: Capital Research Center, 2006) and Marshall, Mao und Chiang: Die amerikanischen Vermittlungsbemuehungen im chinesischen Buergerkrieg (Munich: Tuduv Verlag, 1984). He received his B.A. from the University of Georgia and his Ph.D. — summa cum laude — from the University of Munich.
Note: The views expressed in this interview are those of the guest and are presented for informational purposes.
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