Paul Driessen is a senior fellow with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, nonprofit public policy institutes that focus on energy, the environment, economic development and international affairs. Paul Driessen is author of 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.
- Tuesday, February 26, 2019
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.
Many observers praised President Trump's 2019 State of the Union speech. Some said it was his best ever and even as one of the best SOTU speeches in history. It celebrated 
A California jury recently awarded $289 million in damages (later reduced to $78 million) to a former groundskeeper, who claimed the weed killer glyphosate caused his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and Monsanto deliberately or negligently failed to warn him adequately about the chemical's cancer risks.
The case is on appeal, and a second trial will soon begin before U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria, who himself has 620 more glyphosate cases on his docket. Overall, more than 9,300 additional cases are in the works against Monsanto and its new owner, Bayer--and personal injury mass-tort law firms are trolling for more alleged victims. "If you were ever exposed to glyphosate and now have cancer, you may be entitled to damages. Call us now," their print, radio and television ads proclaim.
The IPCC says it's still possible to limit planetary warming to an additional 0.5 degrees C (0.9 F) "above pre-industrial levels"--but only if global CO2 emissions are halved by 2030 and zeroed out by 2050.
So climate alarmists intend to carbon-tax, legislate and regulate our energy, factories, livelihoods, living standards, liberties and lives to the max. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal would eliminate and replace US fossil fuels by 2030. It's an unprecedented economic and political power grab.
Call it climate one-upmanship. It seems everyone has to outdo previous climate chaos rhetoric.
The "climate crisis" is the "existential threat of our time," Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her House colleagues. We must "end the inaction and denial of science that threaten the planet and the future."
Former California Governor Jerry Brown solemnly intoned that America has "an enemy, though different, but perhaps very much devastating in a similar way" as the Nazis in World War II.
The climate crisis industry incessantly claims that fossil fuel emissions are causing unprecedented temperature, climate and weather changes that pose existential threats to human civilization and our planet.
In this season of New Year resolutions, we should insist that governors, legislators, regulators, activists and their corporate allies resolve to be more honest, especially on climate and renewable energy issues.
The 30,000 alarmists gathered in 
The unwritten rule seems to be that each successive climate report and news release must be more scarifying than any predecessors, especially during the run-up to international conferences.
I'd just passed the local Starbucks in Chicago, when my cell phone buzzed to say the Washington, DC City Council had unanimously agreed "in a preliminary vote" to require that 100% of the District's electricity must come from renewable sources by 2032. How can they put hundreds of wind turbines and solar arrays in DC, or get only renewable electrons from the wind-solar-fossil-nuclear grid? I wondered.
Thanksgiving is a good time to express our sincere gratitude that we no longer “enjoy” the “simpler life of yesteryear.” As my grandmother said, “The only good thing about the good old days is that they’re gone.”
For countless millennia, mankind lived on a precipice, in hunter-gatherer, subsistence farmer and primitive urban industrial societies powered by human and animal muscle, wood, charcoal, animal dung, water wheels and windmills.
The "Blue Wave" never really reached shore, the U.S. Senate is still in Republican hands, the House of Representatives flipped to Democratic control, Trump era deregulation and fossil fuel production efforts continue, several governorships and state houses went from red to blue--and almost all state renewable energy and carbon tax ballot initiatives went down in flames.
The 2018 elections underscore the need for bipartisan efforts to address scientific frauds that promote and justify ever more stringent regulations--often to the great detriment of people, patients and society.
In 1973 OPEC countries imposed an oil embargo to retaliate for US support of Israel during the Yom Kippur War. Drivers endured soaring gasoline prices, blocks-long lines, hours wasted waiting to refuel vehicles, and restrictions on which days they could buy fuel. America was vulnerable to those blackmail sanctions because we imported "too much" oil--though it was just 30% of our crude.
Who are the "Antifa" mobs? What are they doing to our country? How long will we tolerate them?
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 
It’s not enough that the Climate Crisis-Renewable Energy Cabal (CC-REC) 
Dr. Brian Wansink