Paul Driessen

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.

Billionaire crony corporatist schemes

Shady cash from Vladimir Putin's Russian energy oligarchs and other rich donors is being laundered through Bermuda-based lawyers and middlemen to "green" pressure groups, lobbyists and spinmeisters--to promote "green energy" schemes that bring billions of dollars from government agencies (and thus from us taxpayers and consumers) to a cabal of billionaires and crony companies. At the epicenter are hedge fund millionaire Nathaniel Simons, his wife Laura and their secretive Sea Change Foundation.

The chemicals anxiety machine

Rank politics and baseless health scares are driving anxiety, North Carolina election campaigns, civil rights claims and plans for class action lawsuits, all of which could bring electricity rate hikes that will cause real job, health and civil rights problems for families--for no health or environmental benefits

Stormy climate deception

Despite constant claims to the contrary, the issue is not whether greenhouse gas emissions affect Earth's climate. The questions are whether those emissions are overwhelming the powerful natural forces that have always driven climate fluctuations, and whether humans are causing dangerous climate change.

Blood cell phones and Teslas

Leonardo DiCaprio made millions for portraying smuggler Danny Archer in the film "Blood Diamond," which supported mostly unworkable and now defunct efforts to certify that diamonds did not come from "conflict" areas. He loves modern gadgets and takes great pride in being able to lecture "commoners" about safeguarding Earth's climate--while flying to Earth Day events on private jets, getting chauffeured in limousines, and being driven to Oscar ceremonies in a heavily subsidized Prius.

Green pixie dust energy policies

"There's been a record six straight years of job growth, and new Census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation," NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt misinformed Americans, as he launched the first Trump-Clinton presidential debate September 26.