YOUR LIVES, LIVING STANDARDS AND WORLD WOULD SUFFER DRAMATICALLY UNDER A BIDEN-AOC-HARRIS GND by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Oct. 4, 2020) — During the cantankerous September 29 presidential “debate,” candidate Joe Biden proclaimed “I am the Democratic Party.” He is in charge, he insisted, and his views will be Democrat policy. Others aren’t so sure – […]
RADICAL GREENS HAVE GIVEN CITIZENS THE TOOLS TO STOP DESTRUCTIVE WIND AND SOLAR PROJECTS by Craig Rucker, ©2020 (Aug. 31, 2020) — Fracking (horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing) has unleashed bounties of US oil and natural gas, dramatically reduced energy prices from their historic 2008 peak, saved families and industries billions of dollars annually, helped […]
“A BADGE OF HONOR” by CO2 Coalition, ©2020 (Jul. 4, 2020) — Statement by CO2 Coalition Chair Patrick Moore and Executive Director Caleb Stewart Rossiter on the Abrams-Steyer letter asking Facebook to shut down the Coalition’s page and censor its articles on other pages Climate Power 2020 recently published a letter signed by former gubernatorial […]
“NEW NORMAL” VS. “OLD NORMAL” by Tom Harris and Dr. Jay Lehr, ©2020 (Jul. 3, 2020) — On Thursday, July 9, the International Energy Agency (IEA) is hosting its Clean Energy Transitions Summit, an on-line event that IEA executive director Dr. Fatih Birol calls “the most important global event on energy and climate issues of […]
“A LEADING CANDIDATE FOR CANCELLATION” by Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris, ©2020 (Jun. 26, 2020) — Friends of the Earth (FOE) and other environmental groups have ramped up their opposition to subsidies for the fossil fuel industry during our recovery from COVID-19. In their June 24 news release, FOE attacked the SAVE Jobs Act […]
WHY DON’T AFRICAN BLACK LIVES AND ECOLOGICAL VALUES MATTER? OR IMPACTS IN AND BEYOND VIRGINIA? by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2020 (Jun. 21, 2020) — The US Supreme Court recently ruled 7-2 to reverse a lower court ruling that had invalidated a permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which will bring West Virginia natural gas to […]
WOULD WE EVEN WANT IT TO DO SO? A MODEST PROPOSAL, INSPIRED BY JONATHON SWIFT by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Jun. 15, 2020) — Nearly two centuries ago, amid a fungal infestation that destroyed Irish potato crops and brought famine, starvation, death, and the emigration of countless men, women and children, Gulliver’s Travels author Dr. Jonathon […]
“A COLOSSAL WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONIES” by Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris, ©2020 (Jun. 12, 2020) — As governments struggle to recover from reduced revenue and increased costs caused by the coronavirus pandemic, they will be looking to eliminate non-essential expenditures. Energy subsidies that suck billions of dollars each year from the public purse […]
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 […]