Paul Driessen

Buckets of icy cold reality

CNN recently hosted a seven-hour climate bore-athon. That climate cataclysms are real and already devastating our planet was not open to discussion. So host Wolf Blitzer and ten Democrat presidential contenders vied to make the most extravagant claims about how bad things are, and who would spend the most taxpayer money and impose the most Green New Deal rules to restrict our freedoms and transform our energy, economy, agriculture and transportation, in the name of preventing further cataclysms.

More fake five-alarm crises from the IPCC

Efforts to stampede the USA and world into forsaking fossil fuels and modern farming continue apace. UN and other scientists recently sent out news releases claiming July 2019 was the "hottest month ever recorded on Earth"--nearly about 1.2 degrees C (2.2 degrees F) "above pre-industrial levels." That era happens to coincide with the world's emergence from the 500-year Little Ice Age. And "ever recorded" simply means measured; it does not include multiple earlier eras when Earth was much warmer than now.

Enforce rules against false and misleading organic claims

A couple years ago, the US Food and Drug Administration sent a "Warning Letter" to Nashoba Brook Bakery, advising its owners that listing "love" as an ingredient in their granola violated the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The product was "misbranded," because "love" is "not a common or usual name of an ingredient," FDA said. Such deceptive labeling practices could mislead consumers and are not allowed.

California judges provide stage for kangaroo court justice over Roundup weedkiller

San Francisco area juries have awarded cancer patients some $80 million each, based on claims that the active ingredient in Roundup weedkiller, caused their cancer--and that Bayer-Monsanto negligently or deliberately failed to warn consumers that the glyphosate it manufactures is carcinogenic. (It's not.) Judges reduced the original truly outrageous awards of $289 million and even $1 billion per plaintiff!

Bill to reinstate Obama pesticide ban ignores science

The battle over neonicotinoid pesticides rages on. In response to one of many collusive sue-and-settle lawsuits between environmentalist groups and Obama environmental officials, in 2014 the Department of the Interior's Fish & Wildlife Service banned neonic use in wildlife refuges. Following a careful review of extensive scientific studies, the Trump Interior Department concluded that neonics are safe for humans, bees, other wildlife and the environment. In August 2018 it reversed the ban.

Modern societies require minerals, and mining

When OPEC imposed its 1973 embargo, the United States was just over 40% dependent on foreign sources for its oil. But sudden price hikes and shortages severely disrupted families and businesses. Today the USA relies on foreign sources for 100% of 14 minerals considered to be "critical" for modern technologies and societies, and 50-96% for 19 other "critical" minerals; only two are in the 14-25% dependency range, an updated report from the US Department of the Interior (DOI) cautions.

Educating kids to debate alarming climate claims

It's time to challenge the steady diet of bias, false information and alarmism on climate change that students are fed in and outside of their classrooms. Science and public policy analyst Dr. David Wojick has launched an important new project to do exactly that.

For bee alarmists, Groundhog Day comes in June

Did you think Goundhog Day only comes in February? For anti-insecticide zealots and others in the environmentalist movement who've been preoccupied for years with bees and "colony collapse disorder," it actually comes every June. That's when the Bee Informed Partnership--a University of Maryland-based project supported by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)--releases the results of its annual survey of honeybee colony losses and health.

A Red Team review of climate crisis assertions

Various scientists, politicians and activists have long insisted that the United States and world must end fossil fuel use to prevent dangerous manmade global warming, climate change and extreme weather disasters. They say "the science is settled" and the time to act is now.

Reality bites Joe Biden's "Clean Energy Revolution"

Presidential candidate Joe Biden recently announced his "Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice." While it might be viewed as a Green New Deal Lite, the plan would inflict enormous economic, environmental and societal pain on most of the nation, for no climate benefits.

Shutting down middle and blue-collar America

Vocal activists increasingly drive Democrat Party positions across the public policy spectrum. Print, television, social and click-bait media generally support them, while permitting little debate on liberal proposals or their potential ramifications. Even semi-moderate Joe Biden has been pressured into shifting or flipping his positions on abortion, energy, climate change and other issues, to satisfy far-left factions.

Ending Obama EPA climate deception

In December 2009, the Obama Environmental Protection Agency issued its Endangerment Finding (EF)--decreeing that carbon dioxide (CO2) and other "greenhouse gases" (GHGs) endanger the health and welfare of Americans. In the process, EPA ignored the incredible economic, health and welfare benefits of fossil fuels--and the fact that (even at just 0.04% of the atmosphere) carbon dioxide is the miracle molecule that enables plants to grow and makes nearly all live on Earth possible.

Fear, loathing, intolerance--and worse

Throughout history despots had effective ways of reducing dissension in the ranks. Inquisitors burned heretics. Nazis burned books--before taking far more extreme measures. Soviets employed famines, gulags, salt mines and executions. ChiComs and other tyrants starved, jailed and murdered millions. Today's Green New Dealers and their allies have mapped out their own totalitarian strategies.

Fake climate science and scientists

The multi-colored placard in front of a $2-million home in North Center Chicago proudly proclaimed, "In this house we believe: No human is illegal"--and "Science is real" (plus a few other liberal mantras). I knew right away where the owners stood on climate change, and other hot-button political issues. They would likely tolerate no dissension or debate on "settled" climate science or any of the other topics.

Sanity and humanity return to the World Bank?

President Obama infamously told Africans they should focus on their "bountiful" wind, solar and biofuel. If they use "dirty" fossil fuels to raise living standards "to the point where everybody has got a car, and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over."

Sidelined because she rejects radical green agendas?

Aurelia Skipwith has a BS in biology from Howard University, a Master's in molecular genetics from Purdue and a law degree from Kentucky. She has worked as a molecular analyst and sustainable agriculture partnership manager. She was also co-founder and general counsel for AVC Global, a Washington, DC-based agricultural supply chain development company that helps small farmers link up with multinational buyers and with agronomy, business, financial and other service providers.

Stop the anti-climate science totalitarians

Democrats, climate campaigners and renewable energy interests are in full outrage mode over news that President Trump intends to launch a Presidential Committee on Climate Science. He should do it now. The PCCS would, at long last, review and question the "dangerous manmade climate change" reports by federal agencies and investigations funded by them.

Green land grabs on steroids

Special interest environmental groups got stung recently by an 8-0 U.S. Supreme Court opinion that held private landowners cannot be compelled to forego future economic uses of their property and at their own expense convert their land into suitable habitat for an endangered frog. Now radical greens are eyeing even bigger land grabs.

Fighting for energy and human rights equality in Africa

"She has gone to the Lord," her sister Diana told me a few days ago. And with Fiona Kobusingye's passing, after a courageous battle with cancer, the Congress of Racial Equality Uganda lost another leader. However, their legacy remains, the battles they began rage on--and Uganda and Africa are clearly and consistently demonstrating their determination to achieve energy, health, human rights and living standards equality with Europe, America and other industrialized economies. They are determined do so using the same fossil fuel and other technologies that those already wealthy nations used in their ascent out of the nasty, brutish, short lives that were all of humanity's lot just a few short centuries ago.

AOC says America should lead the world

Twenty-nine-year-old ex-bartender and freshman U.S. Representative (D-NY) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received thunderous environmentalist and media acclaim when she introduced her Green New Deal resolution in the House and Ed Markey (D-MA) submitted it in the Senate. It was quickly endorsed or cosponsored by scores of House and Senate Dems, including many who want to run against President Trump in 2020.