Kevin Dayaratna is the principal statistician, data scientist, and research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He specializes in tax, energy, and health policy issues in the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis. Dayaratna has spoken several times on Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and National Public Radio. He has testified before Congress, and he has spoken at the Heritage Institute’s Annual Conference.
Dayaratna has written several articles for the Heritage Foundation pertaining to climate change, including “Green New Deals: Bad for Americans and Bad for Europeans,” “Why “Social Cost of Carbon” Is The Most Useless Number You’ve Never Heard of,” “The Green New Deal: Less About Climate, More About Control,” and “Healthy Oceans and Healthy Economies: The State of Our Oceans in the 21st Century.” In the “Less about Climate, More About Control” article, Dayaratna said that the Green New Deal (GND) is a “green-glossed Trojan horse designed to increase government control over the economy,” and said that the GND “offers minimal climate improvement at impossibly high prices.” The article about oceans is a transcript of a 2019 testimony in which he said that suggested climate change policies “will result in devastating economic impacts along with negligible impacts on the climate.”
Dayaratna instituted the Heritage Energy Model, which is derived from the Energy Information Administration’s National Energy Modeling System. This Energy Model helps people, specifically policymakers, understand the long-term economics of energy policy proposals.
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James DeMint
Climate of Denial