MICHAEL MOORE AND DRIESSEN AGREE! WIND, SOLAR AND BIOFUEL ENERGY ARE DEVASTATING PLANET EARTH by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (May 7, 2020) — Never in my wildest dreams did I envision a day when I’d agree with anything filmmaker Michael Moore said – much less that he would agree with me. But mirabile dictu, his new […]
“FAULTY PREMISES” April 29, 2020 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Going all in, based on a faulty premise, never turns out well and most often, innocents end up paying a steep price for the ensuing foolishness. As we are in our 80s, it is too late for wifey and me to re-retire elsewhere, so we are […]
JUNK SCIENCE AND SCARE STORIES STAMPEDE COUNTRIES INTO TAKING DRASTIC, UNNECESSARY ACTION by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Apr. 5, 2020) — Some 40,000 children slave away in Chinese-operated Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) mines, digging out cobalt for cell phones, laptops, Teslas and Green New Deal technologies, the London-based Guardian has reported. They’re exposed constantly to […]
OFTEN OBSESSIVE FOCUS ON CLIMATE WASTES SCARCE MONEY AND DISTRACTS FROM REAL HEALTH CRISIS by Paul Driessen and David Wojick, ©2020 (Mar. 29, 2020) — The many trillions of dollars proposed to be spent under dubious “green new deals” should be spent instead (effectively and within reason) on health care, especially virus prevention, protection and […]
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 […]
DO THEY EVEN PASS BASIC ENERGY, ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC AND HUMAN RIGHTS TESTS? by Duggan Flanakin, ©2020 (Feb. 15, 2020) — Should Americans follow China in a massive commitment to supposedly eco-friendly battery-electric buses (BEBs)? California has mandated a “carbon-free” bus system by 2040 and will buy only battery or fuel cell-powered buses after 2029. Other […]
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, […]
“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 […]
PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT “CLOSELY CORRELATED WITH PROSPERITY” by Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris, ©2019 (Nov. 29, 2019) — Speaking on November 25 in the European Parliament (EP), left wing politician Mick Wallace voiced a hopelessly misguided theme we will likely hear more of during the big UN climate conference being held in Madrid […]
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 […]
THE LATEST “RENEWABLE, SUSTAINABLE” ENERGY CLAIMS SHOW THE IEA BELONGS IN AN INSANE ASYLUM by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Nov. 3, 2019) — Can anti-fossil fuel policies based on climate crisis alarmism possibly get any more insane than this? In what might be described as a pre-Halloween trick of ginormous proportions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2019 (Oct. 26, 2019) — Ever since the rise of environmentalism in the late 1960’s, the environmental noose around every American’s neck grows tighter by the day. After the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act in 1969, the growth of environmental regulations exploded […]
DEMOCRATS, GREEN NEW DEALERS AND UN GABFEST ATTENDEES NEED TO GET “WOKE” ON ECO-ENERGY by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Sep. 23, 2019) — The full-court press is on for climate chaos disaster and renewable energy salvation. CNN recently hosted a seven-hour climate event for Democrat presidential aspirants. Every day brings more gloom-and-doom stories about absurd, often […]
“MAINSTREAM” NEWS OUTLETS DUTIFULLY FEATURE CLIMATE CATACLYSM CLAIMS THAT HAVE NO BASIS IN REALITY by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Aug. 24, 2019) — Efforts to stampede the USA and world into forsaking fossil fuels and modern farming continue apace. UN and other scientists recently sent out news releases claiming July 2019 was the “hottest month ever […]
“CERTAINLY NOT REAL SCIENCE” August 3, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: They’re at it again, frightening small children and kittens, too (and, unfortunately, some adult voters as well). We have only 12 years – or it’s curtains for our planet! You want proof? Look at this summer’s 100-degree-plus temperatures in Northern Europe’s big cities…. Well […]
IMPORTANT NEW PROJECT PROVIDES VIDEOS AND SHORT NON-TECHNICAL ISSUE BRIEFS FOR STUDENTS by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Jul. 7, 2019) — It’s time to challenge the steady diet of bias, false information and alarmism on climate change that students are fed in and outside of their classrooms. Science and public policy analyst Dr. David Wojick has […]
BACK TO THE 19TH CENTURY? by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris, ©2019 (Jul. 5, 2019) — Listening to climate change activists, one gets the impression that we could transition to a fossil fuel-free world in the near future. Besides the virtual impossibility of quickly moving away from coal, oil and natural gas, the source […]
THE TRUE COSTS OF WIND ENERGY ARE TOO OFTEN (DELIBERATELY?) IGNORED OR UNDERESTIMATED by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris, ©2019 (May 21, 2019) — Wind energy can never replace fossil fuels, despite claims of environmentalists and advocates of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal (GND). It’s not environment-friendly either. Indeed, wind power is hampered by […]
LET’S FINALLY REVIEW ENDANGERMENT FINDING USED TO JUSTIFY TRILLIONS IN CLIMATE AND ENERGY COSTS by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (May 19, 2019) — In December 2009, the Obama Environmental Protection Agency issued its Endangerment Finding (EF) – decreeing that carbon dioxide (CO2) and other “greenhouse gases” (GHGs) endanger the health and welfare of Americans. In the process, […]
BACK TO THE MEDIEVAL GREEN WORLD by Viv Forbes, ©2019, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club (May 10, 2019) — Greens dream of a zero-emissions world without coal, oil and natural gas. They need to think what they wish for. First there would be no mass production of steel without coke from coking coal to remove […]