Paul Driessen

Real science must guide policy

All too many alarmist climate scientists have received millions in taxpayer grants over the years, relied on computer models that do not reflect real-world observations, attacked and refused to debate scientists who disagree with manmade climate cataclysm claims, refused to share their computer algorithms and raw data with reviewers outside their circle of fellow researchers--and then used their work to make or justify demands that the world eliminate the fossil fuels that provide 80% of our energy and have lifted billions out of nasty, brutish, life-shortening poverty and disease.

Off to a bumbling start at Interior

Was it because there were too few senior Trump Administration officials in place to catch and stop it? Or because Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was new on the job, and had so much on his plate, that this decision just slipped right past him?

Pretend conservatives for not so clean energy

More and more conservatives are proclaiming the virtues of clean energy. At least that's what some groups want you to believe. In reality, far-left "charitable" foundations have given pretend conservatives millions of dollars to advance a climate chaos, renewable energy agenda--channeling the funds through intermediary groups, to OxiClean the transactions and limit transparency and accountability.

The silver-tongued liars' playbook

Coal-fired power plant scrubbers now remove 80-90 % of airborne particulate, mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and other pollutants. But that means "fly ash" and noncombustible residues (what we used to call clinkers) must be sent to landfills. That's opened a new front for anti-energy activists, who use accidents, "detectable" pollutants in water, and scary stories about health threats to advance their agenda.

The social cost of carbon regulations

"If you could pick just one thing to reduce poverty, by far you would pick energy," Bill Gates has said. "Access to energy is absolutely fundamental in the struggle against poverty," World Bank VP Rachel Kyte and Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Amartya Sen agree.

Financial Stability Board climate deceit

The $1.5-trillion Climate Crisis industry is not about to go quiet into that dark night, or to strut but an hour upon the stage, to then be heard no more.

Those "devastating" EPA reductions

The Trump White House wants significant reductions at the Environmental Protection Agency: two dozen or more programs, including a dozen dealing with President Obama's climate initiatives; a 20% downsizing in EPA's 15,000-person workforce; and a one-fourth reduction in its $8.1 billion budget.

Diogenes searching for honest policies

GIGO-based energy and climate policies

After calling dangerous manmade climate change a hoax and vowing to withdraw the USA from the Paris agreement, President Trump has apparently removed language criticizing the Paris deal from a pending executive order initiating a rollback of anti-fossil-fuel regulations, to help jumpstart job creation.

The hidden agendas of sustainability illusions

As President Trump downgrades the relevance of Obama era climate change and anti-fossil fuel policies, many environmentalists are directing attention to "sustainable development."

Conservation--not more control

President Obama's parting edicts betrayed Israel and commuted prison sentences for terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera and traitor Bradley/Chelsea Manning. Another abused the Antiquities Act yet again, by banning economic use on an additional 1.7 million acres in Utah, where the federal government controls 61% of the state's land. (This one new lock-up is nearly equal to Delaware and Rhode Island combined.)

Safe and healthy (not pristine) air

It's called the Clean Air Act, but it was never intended to ensure pure, pristine air. Congress wanted America to have safe, healthy air, and regulations based on solid scientific and medical studies.

Reality-based climate forecasting

These days, even shipwreck museums showcase evidence of climate change. After diving recently among Key West's fabled ship-destroying barrier reefs, I immersed myself in exhibits from the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, the fabled Spanish galleon that foundered during a ferocious hurricane in 1622. The Mel Fisher Maritime Museum now houses many of the gold, silver, emeralds and artifacts that Mel and Deo Fisher's archeological team recovered after finding the wreck in 1985.

Another good target for EPA reform

With reform-minded folks in charge of the Executive and Legislative Branches, unelected, unaccountable, un-removable bureaucrats may soon be exerting far less power over our policies, regulations, lives and livelihoods. Energy and climate are high on the fix-it list. Another important topic is insecticides.

Environmentalist insurance policies

Many liberals went into denial, outrage and riot mode after November 8. Now they're having meltdown over President-Elect Donald Trump's cabinet nominees with climate and environmental responsibilities:

Rolling back environmental progress?

Donald Trump plans to “roll back progress” on climate change, energy and the environment, activists, regulators and their media allies assert. The claim depends on one’s definition of “progress.”

Five stages of climate grief

Ever since the elections, our media, schools, workplaces and houses of worship have presented stories showcasing the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Liberal-progressive snowflakes are wallowing in denial, anger and depression. They cannot work, attend class or take exams. They need safe "healing" spaces, Play-Doh, comfort critters and counseling. Too many throw tirades equating Donald Trump with Adolph Hitler, while too few are actually moving to Canada, New Zealand or Jupiter, after solemnly promising they would.

Pipeline anarchy

Is this to be our future? Last week's elections will soon end autocratic rule via executive fiat, the war on coal and hydrocarbons, IRS agents targeting conservative groups, government SWAT teams invading businesses and homes, and numerous other Abuses and Usurpations.

Now comes the hard, fun and vital part

The American people have roundly rejected a third Obama term and legacy of deplorable policies that were too often imposed via executive edicts, with minimal attempts to work with Congress or the states.

Roundup the corrupt fear mongers

Do we really need more collusion, corruption and deceit in the service of renegade regulators, organic food interests, anti-chemical activists, and policies that carry harmful or even lethal consequences? Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is one of the most widely used herbicides on Earth. Numerous farmers use it in conjunction with Roundup-Ready seeds, to grow crops that thrive in fields sprayed to eliminate weeds--while also being insect-resistant and drought-tolerant, thanks to other traits built into their DNA. Such crops significantly reduce the need to spray pesticides and irrigate fields.