Paul Driessen

Inside climate propaganda

Have you ever wondered how the LA Times, Associated Press, Weather Channel and your local media always seem to present similar one-sided stories on climate change, fossil fuels, renewable energy and other environmental issues? How their assertions become "common knowledge," like the following?

Climate Hustle demolishes climate alarmism

Without presenting it to the US Senate, as required by the Constitution, President Obama has signed the Paris climate treaty. He is already using it to further obligate the United States to slash its fossil fuel use, carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth … control our lives, livelihoods, living standards and liberties … and redistribute our wealth. Poor, minority and working class families will suffer most.

Smelling blood in the political water

The great white environmentalist sharks smell blood in the water. It's gushing from mortally wounded US coal companies that the Obama EPA has gutted as sacrifices on the altar of "dangerous manmade climate change" prevention and other spurious health, ecological and planetary scares.

RICO for government climate deniers?

A self-appointed coalition of Democrat state attorneys general is pursuing civil or criminal racketeering actions against ExxonMobil, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and other organizations. The AGs claim the groups are committing fraud, by "denying" climate change. The charge is bogus.

Methane mendacity--and madness

Quick: What is 17 cents out of $100,000? If you said 0.00017 percent, you win the jackpot. That number, by sheer coincidence, is also the percentage of methane in Earth's atmosphere. That's a trivial amount, you say: 1.7 parts per million. There's three times more helium and 230 times more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. You're absolutely right, again.

Prosecuting climate chaos skeptics with RICO

It's been a rough stretch for Climate Armageddon religionists and totalitarians.

What happened on Oahu didn't stay on Oahu

If modern activist groups held sway in the mid-nineteenth century, countless multitudes would have died from typhoid fever and cholera.

Washington's despotic lawlessness

Washington is out of control. Legislators, judges and unelected bureaucrats want to control our lives, livelihoods and living standards, with no accountability even for major errors, calculated deception, or deliberate, often illegal assaults on our liberties and on citizens who resist the advancing Leviathan.

Banning Fossil Fuel Benefits

“Natural gas is a good, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi famously intoned. (Psssst. Ms. Nancy, natural gas is a fossil fuel.)

Banning Fossil Fuel Benefits

“Natural gas is a good, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi famously intoned. (Psssst. Ms. Nancy, natural gasis a fossil fuel.)

Last-Gasp Assaults on Affordable Energy

Separating reality from ideology and political agendas is difficult, but essential, if we are to revitalize our economy and help the world’s poorest families take their rightful places among Earth’s prosperous people. Energy reality is certainly in our favor. But ideological forces are powerful and persistent.

Are wind turbines killing whales?

Between January 9 and February 4 this year, 29 sperm whales got stranded and died on English, German and Dutch beaches. Environmentalists and the news media offered multiple explanations--except the most obvious and likely one: offshore wind farms.

Economic Literacy 101

America's 18- to 34-year-old "millennials" have been tutored in group-think schools that extol socialism. Now they lionize liberal politicians whose class-warfare prescriptions include taxing away all but maybe 1% of the nation's 0.0001% billionaires' wealth, then going after Wall Street, Big Business, millionaires and upper middle classes--and giving the "revenue" to those who "need" or "deserve" it more.

Remember the Climate!

Military triumphs and catastrophes have often hinged on how well (or luckily) armies and navies employed, avoided or benefited from weather, seasonal and other natural events.

Tax oil to subsidize wind?

If you want more of something, mandate it, subsidize it and exempt it from regulations. If you want less of something, punish it with taxes and regulations. Put more bluntly, the power to tax and regulate is the power to destroy. This is the First Rule of Government. No presidency has ever come close to the Obama Administration in employing the rule to advance its ideologies and agendas. No industry has been so favored as renewable energy over the past seven years. No sector has been so thoroughly vilified and subjugated as fossil fuels during that period.

Obama's 0.7 percent "solution"

America's abysmal 0.7% economic growth during the fourth quarter of 2015 meant the annual growth rate was an anemic 2.4% … and average annual growth for the six-year Obama era a pathetic 2.2 percent.

Trumping hydrocarbon fuels and consumers

Donald Trump loves to tout his poll numbers. But if he's doing so well, why does he pander to Iowa's ethanol interests? The gambit might garner a few caucus votes among corn growers and ethanol producers. It certainly brings plaudits from renewable energy lobbyists and their political enablers. But it could (and should) cost him votes in many other quarters--beyond the Corn Ethanol Belt and even in Iowa.

Base policies on reality, not deceit

Dangerous manmade global cooling, global warming, climate change and extreme weather claims continue to justify what has become a $1.5-trillion-per-year industry: tens of billions spent annually on one-sided research and hundreds of billions sent to crony corporatists to subsidize replacing dependable, affordable carbon-based fuels with unreliable, expensive "renewable" energy.

Life under an iron fist

Activists protesting federal land mismanagement and the imprisonment of Dwight and Steven Hammond recently occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters building in Oregon. Some facts, context and perspective may help people understand what's really going on here.

The heat is on!

The heat is on! Not the unusual winter warmth in much of the United States--but the unrelenting heat generated by propaganda and pressure campaigns that the White House, EPA, Big Green and news media are unleashing in the wake of the Paris climate agreement... and as a prelude to the 2016 elections.