Tag: climate crisis
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The Biggest Garbage Heaps in Human History
by Paul Driessen, ©2026 (Aug. 16, 2026) — Daily news feeds present applause lines, and numerous movies include framing shots with wind turbines – blatantly or subtly promoting the “inevitable transition” from “dirty” fossil fuels to “low-cost, clean, green, renewable, sustainable” wind and solar power. Net Zero Green New Deal proponents need to start pondering…
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What about Earth’s Threatened and Endangered PEOPLE?
by Paul Driessen, ©2026 (May 3, 2026) — Another Earth Day has come and gone – number 57, like Heinz steak sauce. Once again, the media, activists and international agencies fed us pablum, exaggeration and alarmism. Our public lands, the Endangered Species Act, biodiversity and environmental justice are under threat, they raged. Oceans are filling…
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Brother Love the Earth’s Traveling Salvation Show
by Paul Driessen, ©2026 (Mar. 23, 2026) — Former National Audubon Society COO Dan Beard once confessed, “What you get in your mailbox is a never-ending stream of shrill crisis-related material designed to evoke emotions so that you will sit down and write a check.” Neil Diamond sang, “Pack up the babies and grab the old ladies,…
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Destroying Countrysides to Save Earth from a Climate Non-Crisis
by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (Dec. 24, 2025) — Energy analyst Robert Bryce maintains a database showing that, as of November 2025, local communities have rejected or restricted 595 wind, 475 solar and (more recently) 72 large-scale battery projects. Many don’t want the installations blanketing wildlife habitats, scenic vistas, croplands or their backyard viewsheds; especially when…
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The UN’s Krazy Kangaroo Klimate Kourt
by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (Aug. 24, 2025) — Vanuatu and other “climate vulnerable” island nations claim they are threatened by rising seas and worsening typhoons caused by fossil fuel use. In response to an emotional petition from them and law students at the University of the South Pacific, the United Nations General Assembly presented a…
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Avoiding Self-Inflicted Trade and Economic Wounds
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2024 (Nov. 25, 2024) — President-elect Trump says he will impose tariffs on foreign products to raise revenue and in response to practices that give foreign manufacturers unfair advantages over American companies. Europe’s debates over similar issues offer relevant guidance, advisories and impetus. As the European Union looks ahead to the…
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Radical Leftists Say Oil Companies are Committing Climate Murder!
by Paul Driessen, ©2024 (May 4, 2024) — We’re constantly told fossil fuel use is causing an existential climate crisis, extreme weather, worsening wildfires, and more frequent and intense hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and droughts. Actual temperature, storm and other records provide no support for these claims. They certainly don’t back up ludicrous assertions that burning…
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Joe Biden, China’s Favorite President
by Jeff Crouere, Ringside Politics, ©2023 (Sep. 10, 2023) — After another embarrassing international trip to the G20 summit and to Vietnam, Joe Biden will become the first American President not to memorialize the 2,977 victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack on our country with an event on the mainland. He is commemorating the day…
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Abandon Fossil Fuels, Empower China
by Don Ritter, ©2023 (Aug. 1, 2023) — Autocratic Producers (primarily Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Russia, Iran, Qatar, Venezuela and China) and certain democratic (or semi-democratic) Consumers (fossil fuel-dependent nations, mostly in the Global South), are uniting over oil, gas, coal, petrochemicals, natural gas-derived fertilizers and wind-solar-battery raw materials that are essential for building and maintaining…
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Legalized Climate Grifting
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2023 (Mar. 20, 2023) — Grifters have long fascinated us. Operating outside accepted moral standards, they excel at persuading their “marks” to hand valuables over willingly. If they ever represented a “distinctly American ethos,” they’ve been supplanted by con artists seeking bank accounts for funds abandoned by Nigerian princes. Their artful…
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How I Will Vote, and Why
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (May 9, 2022) — The Liberals cannot be trusted to control Australia without adult supervision. But to replace them with an ALP/Green/ABC/Teal government would be a disaster. So voters must ensure that Liberals can form the next government, providing they have mature overseers. Voters must ensure…
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REAL Threats to Biodiversity and Humanity
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2022 (Apr. 30, 2022) — References to climate change almost guarantee funding, even for research topics of little interest beyond academia and eco-activists. Polls reveal that most people worry most about energy and food prices, crime, living standards, Putin’s war on Ukraine, and increasing efforts to control their lives. A recent…
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House Democrats Cancel Looming Embarrassment
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2022 (Mar. 13, 2022) — Mike Tyson once observed, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. March 8 was to be anti-oil Democrats’ big day. Having pilloried Big Oil executives during two previous hearings over supposed climate change prevention failures, House Oversight Committee leaders had planned to…
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Europe’s Energy Crisis Better Wake America Up
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2021 (Oct. 31, 2021) — COP-26, the twenty-sixth massive climate control “conference of parties,” goes live in Glasgow, Scotland on Halloween. That’s certainly appropriate, since its primary purpose is to further terrify humanity to “take action” to prevent the “existential threat” of “manmade climate cataclysms.” Thousands of politicians and climate activists…
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We Must Reject Huge Financial Demands at UN Climate Conference
by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris, ©2021 (Oct. 22, 2021) — In the 1996 award-winning film Jerry McGuire, pro football player Rod Tidwell had a single demand of his agent: “Show me the money!” “SHOW US THE MONEY” is precisely what thousands of bureaucrats from developing countries will demand of us at the 26th Conference of…
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Boris the Babbling Baby
by Geraint Hughes, ©2021 (Sep. 25, 2021) — Boris “the Babble” Johnson, as he is known in the UK, the boy who never grew up but still somehow became an adulterous prime minister of UK. The breaker of families was a natural choice for the breaker of Britain from the EU, which is the only…
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Green New Deal, Pandemic Tactics, and a Renewed Freedom Movement
“POLICIES THAT HAVE PROVEN DISASTROUS” by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2020 (Jun. 23, 2020) — For more than 30 years I’ve been awarded tinfoil hats and labeled a conspiracy theorist and hate monger because I had been able to read between the lines of the UN’s Agenda 21 and its plan for restructuring our…
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Deceptive Rhetoric at Davos Could Bring Disaster
THERE IS NOTHING “COHESIVE” OR “SUSTAINABLE” ABOUT “SOLUTIONS” DEMANDED BY WEF “STAKEHOLDERS” by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Feb. 9, 2020) — The World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland is billed as the globe’s most prestigious annual gathering of movers and shakers. Its mission is to “improve the state of the world by engaging business, political,…
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Do We Really Face a Climate Cat–astrophe?
MUST WE PUT UP WITH YET ANOTHER ECO-CATACLYSM FABRICATED AND EXAGGERATED BY RULING ELITES? by Duggan Flanakin, ©2020 (Jan. 9, 2020) — One day I will write a book: 111,111 ways our saviors have proposed to save the planet from the coming climate-driven catastrophes and extinctions. Meanwhile, here’s one you may not have considered. At…
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Reality Bites Joe Biden’s “Clean Energy Revolution”
TALLYING ITS HUGE IMPACTS ON OUR ENERGY, INDUSTRIES, LIVING STANDARDS AND PERSONAL FREEDOMS by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Jun. 16, 2019) — 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…