Paul Driessen's Past Articles
153 articles
Mrs. Madoff exonerates Michael Mann
published: July 26, 2010
Pennsylvania State University recently released a report summarizing its final “investigation” into whether one of its employees had committed scientific misconduct. The report exonerat...
It’s really about controlling our lives
published: July 18, 2010
Within days, Majority Leader Harry Reid intends to bring sweeping energy and climate legislation to the Senate floor. He won't call it cap-and-trade or cap-tax-and-trade, and certainly not a carbon...
Destroying biodiversity
published: July 12, 2010
The Soviet Union’s demise helped usher in manmade catastrophic global warming as the new “central organizing principle of civilization.” Now, global warming is giving way to a gro...
Obama’s deliberate Katrina
published: July 04, 2010
Back in May, a television news program asked me if I’d tell America the BP oil spill is President Obama’s Katrina. We discussed the spill’s causes, effects and cleanup effort, but...
Capitalizing on the latest crisis
published: June 17, 2010
Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., Niger Innis and Reverend Samuel Rodriquez Business and capitalism are dirty words in many White House and progressive circles, except in two ways. Business is good when...
The right to choose – for farmers in Haiti
published: June 13, 2010
The Monsanto Company is learning a valuable lesson in Haiti: no good deed goes unpunished at the hands of radical anti-corporate elements of Western society. Like so many other concerned citizens,...
The chasm between Apollo and the Gulf
published: June 02, 2010
President Obama’s Administration and its supportive media repeatedly say our 1970 Apollo 13 experience is analogous to the effort to contain and cap the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gul...
Ken Cuccinelli v. 810 academics
published: May 30, 2010
“Scientific debates should be played out in the academic arena,” insists University of Virginia environmental sciences professor David Carr. “If Michael Mann’s conclusions a...
Cause for alarm?
published: May 24, 2010
We’re often asked, What really causes all these alarms about global warming disasters? As scientists and policy analysts who’ve studied our ever-changing climate for a combined 65 year...
A few questions for climate alarmists
published: May 15, 2010
The new Kerry-Lieberman climate bill mandates a 17% reduction in US carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. It first targets power plants that provide reliable, affordable electricity for American homes,...
Lessons from the Gulf blowout
published: May 09, 2010
Transocean’s semi-submersible drilling vessel Deepwater Horizon was finishing work on a wellbore that had found oil 18,000 feet beneath the seafloor, in mile-deep water fifty miles off the Lo...
(Desperately) Looking for Arctic warming
published: May 03, 2010
First American Ann Bancroft and Norwegian Liv Arnesen trekked off across the Arctic in the dead of the 2007 winter, “to raise awareness about global warming,” by showcasing the wide exp...
Disclosing the real risks of climate change
published: February 08, 2010
We are not weighing in on the climate debate. We are not opining on whether the world’s climate is changing, at what pace or due to what causes, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Ma...
Not exactly Mother Teresa
published: January 18, 2010
Should corporate ethics principles apply only to profit-making companies? Or should they also cover nonprofit corporations, especially those that badger for-profits to be more “socially responsible...
Taxpayer Robbery Gate
published: December 28, 2009
Aside from ideologues, hydrocarbon haters, Gaia worshipers, profiteers and power-grabbing politicians, most of the sentient world is beginning to realize that the hysteria over global warming disas...
Life in a box
published: December 21, 2009
“Life in a box is better than no life at all,” playwright Tom Stoppard famously opined, through the personage of Rosencrantz. (Or was it Guildenstern?) That’s lucky for us, because our energy, e...
Cleaning out the climate science cesspool
published: November 30, 2009
As frigid Copenhagen prepares for the upcoming Climate Armageddon confab, a predictable barrage of hothouse horrors has been unleashed, to advance proposals to slash hydrocarbon use and carbon diox...
An alarmist modeler’s history of climate change
published: November 17, 2009
Behind the persistent global warming scare is the hypothesis and assertion that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are causing Earth to warm dangerously. The thesis is espoused most promi...
Al Gore: Junk science huckster
published: November 14, 2009
House Global Warming Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) was outraged that a renegade freelance lobbyist had sent a dozen phony letters to members of Congress, urging them to vote against cap-an...
All Pain, No Gain
published: November 13, 2009
“Electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket” under cap-and-trade,” President Obama has admitted. “Industry will have to retrofit its operations. That will cost money, and...
IBD commentary -- Climate assumptions from another planet
published: October 19, 2009
As the 821-page Kerry-Boxer climate bill gets fast-tracked in the Senate, as a companion to the 1427-page House bill, it is critical that we reexamine the assumptions behind cap-tax-and-trade legis...
None dare call it fraud
published: October 16, 2009
Imagine the reaction if investment companies provided only rosy stock and economic data to prospective investors; manufacturers withheld chemical spill statistics from government regulators; or med...
Adapting to climate change through technology
published: September 21, 2009
“Since when did you become a global warming alarmist?” I kidded Norman midway into our telephone conversation a few weeks before this amazing scientist and humanitarian died. “Wh...
They Disturbing Limits of Modern Discourse
published: August 10, 2009
Bill O'Reilly continues his harangue that conservatives should just drop the Obama birth certificate controversy. From where I sit, health care, the deficit and cash-for-clunkers dominate the cons...
Africa’s real climate crisis
published: July 30, 2009
Life in Africa is often nasty, impoverished and short. AIDS kills 2.2 million Africans every year, say WHO reports. Lung infections cause 1.4 million deaths, malaria 1 million more, intestinal dise...
Paul Driessen
Paul Driessen is senior policy adviser for the Congress of Racial Equality, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power - Black Death, which documents the harm that restrictive environmental policies often have on poor people, especially in developing countries. He writes and speaks frequently on energy, environmental, economic development, malaria eradication, human rights, global warming and corporate social responsibility issues. His website is www.Eco-Imperialism.com.
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