Paul Driessen's Past Articles

153 articles

Carbon tax hallucinations

published: February 24, 2013

Average planetary temperatures haven’t budged in 16 years. Hurricanes and strong tornadoes are at or near their lowest ebb in decades. Global sea ice is back to normal, Arctic ice is nearly n...

Real sustainability versus activist sustainability

published: February 10, 2013

Companies everywhere extol their sustainable development programs and goals. Sustainability drives UN programs like Agenda 21, EU and US green energy initiatives, and myriad manufacturing, agricult...

Desperately trying to derail Canadian oil sands

published: January 28, 2013

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has approved his state’s portion of the Keystone XL pipeline, explaining that its revised route avoids areas that critics had earlier claimed were environmentally ...

Trampling on people, environment, science and ethics

published: January 20, 2013

Policy integrity. Ethical culture. Environmental protection. Environmental defense. Friends of earth. Defenders of wildlife. Ethical investing. Not just their names, but their charter, culture and ...

The political superstorm that devastated New York

published: December 30, 2012

“Superstorm” Sandy killed more than 100 people, destroyed thousands of homes and businesses, and left millions without food, water, electricity, sanitation or shelter for days or even w...

The new robber barons

published: December 23, 2012

An oil and natural gas boom is underway in the United States, born of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” It has created tens of thousands of well-paying jobs d...

Stop subsidizing the slaughter!

published: December 19, 2012

Congress and the White House are struggling to find even one subsidy or entitlement program that they are willing to cut. But the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) insists that the 2.2-cents ...

Obama’s Walt Disney energy policies

published: December 14, 2012

In Walt Disney’s 1940 animated film “Pinocchio,” woodcarver Geppetto dreams that his wooden marionette will turn into a real boy.Geppetto’s hopes are immortalized in the son...

Facing a triple threat: Doha, EPA and Congress

published: December 09, 2012

Climate alarmists are meeting in Doha, Qatar, to hammer out a new international treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol that expires this year. The US Environmental Protection Agency is poised to unle...

Climate change issues for 2012

published: November 18, 2012

1) CO2 is a greenhouse gas and it has been rising steadily. How can you deny global warming? The Earth has warmed – and cooled – over the past 50 years. We’ve al...

Energy and environment issues for 2012

published: November 06, 2012

What policies will best strengthen America’s energy and economic future? America needs to pursue all its energy options. Oil, gas, coal, nuclear, hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, solar and ...

Climate change issues for 2012

published: November 06, 2012

The Earth has warmed – and cooled – over the past 50 years. We’ve also experienced periods of “unusual” weather and “normal” weather, more frequent and int...

Fractured fairy tales

published: November 04, 2012

Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have boosted shale gas production from zero a few years ago to 10% of all US energy supplies in 2012, observes energy analyst Daniel Yergin. Fracking ha...

Perverse environmentalist oil sands ethics

published: October 28, 2012

The duplicity and hypocrisy of environmental pressure groups seem to be matched only by their consummate skill at manipulating public opinion, amassing political power, securing taxpayer-funded gov...

Winners and losers energy policies

published: October 23, 2012

Governor Mitt Romney strongly supports North American energy independence as the foundation of renewed US employment and prosperity. President Obama is waging war on fossil fuels, job creation, and...

Climate Alarmism: Our sanity and wallets need a break

published: September 23, 2012

Pick up any 40-year-old science textbook – on chemistry, biology, geology, physics, astronomy or medicine – and you’ll find a slew of “facts” and theories that have be...

Government of, by and for the EPA

published: September 16, 2012

Seven score and nine years ago, President Lincoln resolved to take increased devotion to ensuring that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the Earth. Y...

Our SimCity government

published: September 02, 2012

Back in 1983, during the information processing Cretaceous Period, Maxis developed a new genre of educational, yet entertaining computer games. The latest version will be released next year. SimCi...

Real energy for a new American renaissance

published: August 20, 2012

America needs more economic growth, domestic manufacturing, jobs – and secure, affordable energy to make those things happen. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney understands that achieving th...

Beat GSA!

published: August 09, 2012

If America had a “Spend Like a Drunken Sailor Award,” Navy Secretary Ray Mabus would win hands-down, for blowing $12 million on biofuel for Navy ships. Even as the armed services face ...

Voting for wildlife extermination

published: August 05, 2012

The latest justification for extending the industrial wind electricity production tax credit (PTC) is that we need an “all of the above” energy policy. The slogan falls flat, even when ...

Western wildfires – horrific, destructive … and unnecessary

published: July 29, 2012

Millions of Americans watched their evening news in horrified fascination. The Colorado Springs wildfire had doubled in size overnight, to 24 square miles – half the size of San Francisco &n...;

Caught in a green crossfire

published: July 15, 2012

President Obama has waged war on fossil fuels for three and a half years – and American consumers and families are caught in the green energy crossfire. They are getting hit with higher ener...

Dodging another UN bullet

published: July 01, 2012

The Future We Want outlined a “common vision” for planetary “sustainable development,” as proclaimed by the “Organizing Partners of the Major Group of NGOs,” to ...

Rio+20 is greatest threat to biodiversity

published: June 24, 2012

The UN Conference on Sustainable Development is underway in Rio de Janeiro. This time, 20 years after the original 1992 Rio “Earth Summit,” thousands of politicians, bureaucrats and env...