“INEPT AND HEARTLESS” September 15, 2020 Dear Editor, William Chandler, “A deal to energise” Melbourne, Herald Sun, 14/9, Trade Minister Simon Birmingham’s joining an energy deal with Germany is a great thing for Australians, and particularly Victorians? Mr Chandler, some 75% of Germany’s energy needs (so much imported from/reliant on Russia, Poland, France and Scandinavia) […]
NOT JUST ENERGY, BUT EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES, LIVING STANDARDS, HISTORY, CULTURE AND FREEDOMS by David Wojick and Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Aug. 20, 2020) — Kamala Harris co-sponsored the Senate resolution to support the Green New Deal. Now Joe Biden has endorsed the plan. Naturally, people want to know what the GND will cost […]
THEY WANT TO BAN COAL, OIL AND GAS. EXACTLY HOW WILL THEY REPLACE THEM? WHO WINS? WHO LOSES? by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Mar. 15, 2020) — Berkeley, CA, Takoma Park, MD and other cities; California, Connecticut, New York, Virginia and other states; Germany, England and other countries; the European Union – all plan to banish […]
“DON’T FALL FOR THE HYPE” January 20, 2020 Dear Friends and Colleagues: I apologize in advance for the length of this. I understand that my comments may likely be rejected or ignored by some who’ve already succumbed to the false prophesies of doom and gloom and believe that we are incinerating our planet by enjoying […]
REPLACING FOSSIL FUELS WITH “RENEWABLE” ENERGY WOULD DEVASTATE THE ONLY PLANET WE’VE GOT by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Nov. 25, 2019) — Environmentalists and Green New Deal proponents like to say we must take care of the Earth, because “There is no Planet B.” Above all, they insist, we must eliminate fossil fuels, which they say […]
GREEN NEW DEAL CLIMATE ALARM SOCIALISM IS REALLY INTOLERANT, TOTALITARIAN ECO-FASCISM by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Oct. 27, 2019) — Green New Dealers have convinced themselves that our planet faces an imminent, existential, manmade climate cataclysm – that can be prevented solely and simply by government edicts replacing fossil fuels with biofuel, wind, solar and battery […]
DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AND GREEN NEW DEALERS NEED TO FACE SOME HARD ENERGY FACTS by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Sep. 11, 2019) — 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 […]
“A FAILURE” by Viv Forbes, ©2019, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club (Jun. 6, 2019) — There was a Green State in Australia Whose energy plans were a failure When the wind did not blow And the sun did not glow Their big battery fell flat as a saviour. ——————- Viv Forbes Washpool Qld 4306 Australia […]
“IT’S ALL ABOUT MONEY” by Viv Forbes, BSc, MAusIMM, Executive Director, the Saltbush Club (May 4, 2019) — “Big miners like Rio and BHP employ many geologists, chemists and physicists who can show that natural climate cycles have been occurring for millions of years. Why then are their boards pushing the man-made climate fable? “It’s […]
THE CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY UGANDA HAS LOST ANOTHER LEADER, BUT THE FIGHT CONTINUES by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Feb. 26, 2019) — “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 […]
AUSTRALIA FACING A BRICK WALL OF BLACKOUTS by Jerry Ellis and Sir Rod Carnegie, ©2019, The Saltbush Club (Feb. 19, 2019) — The Chairman of the Saltbush Club, Mr Jerry Ellis, today warned that Australia needs more reliable baseload power. “With the population and the economy growing, but with electricity availability and reliability in decline, […]
IN COMMITTING NATIONAL ECONOMIC SUICIDE AND SENDING LIVING STANDARDS BACK TO 19TH CENTURY by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Feb. 18, 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 […]
TOO MANY GOVERNMENT REGULATORS BURDEN AND SHUT DOWN PRIVATE-SECTOR BUSINESSES AND JOBS by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Feb. 11, 2019) — Many observers praised President Trump’s 2019 State of the Union speech. Some said it was his best ever and one of the best SOTU speeches in history. It celebrated the nation’s progress, extolled its opportunities […]
GLOBAL COOLING, AND GLOBAL SOCIALISM, THE REAL FEARS by Jay Lehr and Tom Harris, ©2019 (Feb. 7, 2019) — What do heat waves, floods, droughts, rising sea level, forest fires, hurricanes, African wars, mass extinctions, disease outbreaks, and migration from South America and the Middle East have in common? They are all, according to climate […]
CLIMATE ALARMISTS MUST PROVE EXPENSIVE, WEATHER-DEPENDENT ENERGY IS GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Jan. 26, 2019) — 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. […]
WE NEED RATIONAL RULES TO PROTECT ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES – AND MEET ESSENTIAL SOCIETAL NEEDS by Craig Liukko, ©2019 (Jan. 19, 2019) — [Editor’s Note: Please see Part 1 of this article here.] What does this country do for essential everyday minerals, when ideological bureaucrats have closed most mines and declared them “Permanently Closed”? In Colorado, […]
$500M CLIMATE CARNIVAL CONCLUDES by Viv Forbes, ©2018 (Dec. 22, 2018) — COP 24 just concluded in Poland. Nearly 23,000 climate saviours attended this 24th annual climate carnival. Every year, plane-loads of concerned busybodies fly to some interesting new location to spend tax dollars on a well-fed 12 day holiday. They concoct plans to ration […]
“THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO WAKE UP” by Jay Lehr and Tom Harris, ©2018 (Nov. 8, 2018) — For many of the entities driving the global warming debate, the goal has never been about climate. Their long-term goal is to unite the world under a single socialistic government in which there is no capitalism, no democracy, […]
NEW BOOK ANALYZES NEAR-TOTAL FOREIGN DEPENDENCY FOR CRITICAL MINERALS – AND OFFERS SOLUTIONS by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Oct. 28, 2018) — 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 […]
IS WIND POWER ABLE TO MATCH COAL? by David Wojick, Ph.D., ©2018 (Oct. 5, 2018) — The Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) recently approved a Colorado Energy Plan that attempts to substitute wind power for coal power. CFACT has petitioned the PUC to reconsider this ill-advised decision. Included below are some excerpts from the CFACT petition. […]