Paul Driessen
Eco-Imperialism
Bio: Paul Driessen
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Archives for 2018 :
The IPCC's latest climate hysteria (October 25, 2018)
500 days of unleashing our economic engine - Amazing growth – while protecting environment, health and welfare from actual threats (August 22, 2018)
Hate speech, bias and intolerance at UDel - University of Delaware student newspaper attacks climatology professor for his religious beliefs (June 25, 2018)
Chickens Before People? The Perverse Ethic Of Radical Environmentalists (May 30, 2018)
Ending secret science at EPA - Administrator Pruitt initiates overdue changes to bring transparency, integrity to rulemaking (April 30, 2018)
Climate adaptation, reparation and restoration - Boulder, CO wants oil companies to restore snowy winters of an idyllic past – and pay it billions (April 28, 2018)
The Biofuel Crony Capitalist Revolving Door (January 8, 2018)
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Archives for 2015 :
Obama’s deceitful, unsustainable energy decrees (September 9, 2015)
Climate Issues We DO Need to Address - We need to fix the climate of fraud, corruption, and policies that kill jobs, hope and people (September 4, 2015)
Climate statism: Science, poverty, free speech at Issue (August 27, 2015)
Climate Crisis, Inc. has become a $1.5 trillion industry (August 26, 2015)
Climate Crisis, Inc - $1.5 trillion and Larry Bell book explain how profiteers of climate doom keep the money flowing (August 23, 2015)
EPA’s gross negligence at Gold King - Fear-mongering, pollution standards and negligence rules don’t apply when EPA is at fault (August 21, 2015)
EPA’s punitive, fraudulent Clean Power Plan - Congress, states and our next president must end EPA harm to human health and welfare (August 14, 2015)
A message for Pope Francis - It’s not climate change – but energy restrictions based on climate fears – that threaten the poor (April 30, 2015)
The Obama Climate Monarchy - Using the EPA, CEQ and other federal agencies to fundamentally transform America (April 18, 2015)
The climate con goes on - Climate Chaos, Inc. and media allies ban news and books on climate realism (March 20, 2015)
Crony biofuel politics wag the dog - A governor and his son lobby for ethanol – and expect presidential candidates to endorse it (March 19, 2015)
Climatist Jihad? - Climate Crisis extremists attack experts who challenge claims of imminent climate Armageddon (March 5, 2015)
Archives for 2014 :
EPA’s next regulatory tsunami - Trillions of dollars in ozone compliance and economic stagnation costs, for fabricated benefits (November 18, 2014)
It’s rarely about the environment anymore - It’s about slashing our energy use, free enterprise, job creation, living standards and freedoms (November 3, 2014)
Protect the poor – from climate change policies (September 30, 2014)
EPA's phony "environmental justice" caper - The agency’s real agenda: empire, control, and inverted justice for poor and minority families (September 9, 2014)
Trampling on Coal Country families (August 20, 2014)
“Climate-smart” policies for Africa are stupid, and immoral - Obama-Kerry policies would perpetuate energy poverty, malnutrition, disease and death (August 14, 2014)
Who’s really waging the ‘war on science’? - When it comes to attacking climate scientists, the alarmist Left has the market cornered (July 31, 2014)
Breaking EPA’s climate science secrecy barriers (July 23, 2014)
Killing marine life with ethanol - Ethanol damages your cars, small engines, food budget – and kills Gulf of Mexico animals (July 22, 2014)
Greenpeace showcases its anti-human side (July 21, 2014)
Executive fiats in the other Washington - Two western state governors intend to get low carbon fuel standards, by legislation or decree (June 27, 2014)
Tower of Pisa policies (May 8, 2014)
Will the Supreme Court permit EPA climate fraud? - If it does, the impacts on our lives, livelihoods, liberties and living standards will be enormous (March 5, 2014)
Carbon benefits exceed costs by up to 500:1 - by Paul Driessen and Roger Bezdek (February 17, 2014)
Build the Keystone pipeline, already! (February 12, 2014)
The ignorance and hypocrisy behind oil export bans - Help consumers, security, environment by eliminating prohibition on exporting US oil and gas (February 11, 2014)
America in lockdown - “Dedicated public servants” lock up lands and resources, lock down job and economic recovery (January 28, 2014)
The Iditarod on 12,000 calories a day - Battle Dawgs Racing, Alaska’s Healing Hearts and Iditarod benefit wounded warriors (January 27, 2014)
Risking lives to promote climate change hype - Yet another global warming expedition gets trapped in icebound ideology (January 26, 2014)
Crooked labs, agencies and prosecutors - EPA Nifongs and Beales prosecute US hydrocarbons, jobs, living standards and health (January 1, 2014)
Archives for 2013 :
Real climate science the IPCC doesn’t want you to see - Heartland Institute releases Climate Change Reconsidered report. Get it. Read it. Speak out. (September 26, 2013)
Delaware’s “future weather” - Paul Driessen and David R. Legates (July 23, 2013)
EPA Climatism: Dictating Our Lives, Living Standards and Life Spans (June 4, 2013)
A bee in their bonnet - Anti-pesticide activists falsely blame new pesticides for bee colony problems (May 21, 2013)
Support drilling, fracking, Keystone … and exports - We don’t need to restrict oil or gas exports. We need to open more lands to leasing and drilling. (May 7, 2013)
Eco-imperialism joins vulture environmentalism - Obama appointees seek to impose ideological control over our energy, economy and property (March 25, 2013)
Our real manmade climate crisis - The crisis is due not to climate change, but to actions taken in the name of preventing change (March 8, 2013)
Carbon tax hallucinations - Carbon taxes will do nothing for revenues or climate, but will hurt job and economic growth (February 19, 2013)
Desperately trying to derail Canadian oil sands (January 28, 2013)
Archives for 2012 :
Stop subsidizing the slaughter! - Terminate Big Wind’s Production Tax Credit to save eagles, bats, whooping cranes – and jobs (December 18, 2012)
Fractured fairy tales - Greens hate natural gas and fracking, but costly, parasitic wind energy can’t live without it (November 3, 2012)
Perverse environmentalist oil sands ethics - Opposition to the Canadian oil sands and Keystone Pipeline reflects debased moral code (October 25, 2012)
Winners and losers energy policies (October 20, 2012)
Government of, by and for the EPA - EPA advances anti-energy agenda, with little regard for Americans’ health or welfare (September 12, 2012)
Our SimCity government - by Paul Driessen and David Legates (September 3, 2012)
Beat GSA! - Navy’s biofuel program vanquishes GSA in battle for wasteful spending supremacy (August 26, 2012)
Dodging another UN bullet - ‘The Future We Want’ offered sustained power and money grabs in name of sustainability! (June 27, 2012)
“Sustainable justice” = redistribution of scarcity - by Paul Driessen and Duggan Flanakin (June 20, 2012)
Rare corporate courage and common sense - Wal-Mart stands up to activist intimidation, ensuring affordable, wholesome food for customers (May 23, 2012)
The folly of E15 anti-hydrocarbon policies - EPA’s E-15 ethanol plan is bad for our pocketbooks, environment and energy policy (April 25, 2012)
“Greenbacks” energy boondoggles versus real energy - Government tax and subsidy schemes waste billions. We need real energy and jobs. (April 18, 2012)
Fracking: An existential threat to green dogma - Misleading claims about shale gas development serve dogma but not the public interest (March 29, 2012)
Hunting for scapegoats won’t lower pump prices - Exporting gasoline and diesel fuel creates jobs and prosperity (March 21, 2012)
That jobs thing sure didn’t last long (February 12, 2012)
Agenda-driven “science” at EPA - by Willie Soon and Paul Driessen (February 4, 2012)
Charles Manson energy - It’s time to apply endangered species, wildlife and economic laws fairly and equitably (January 20, 2012)
Archives for 2011 :
Minimal benefits, extensive harm - by Craig Rucker (December 27, 2011)
American energy can jump-start US recovery (December 16, 2011)
Real monsters didn’t disappear after Halloween - by Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr. and Reverend Efrain Piñeda (November 13, 2011)
Electricity, parks and progress for Chile (November 11, 2011)
It’s libel – except when Mike does it (October 29, 2011)
Delaware’s very own Solyndra - by Paul Driessen and John Nichols (September 27, 2011)
Victory is sweet, but the war continues (September 21, 2011)
Trying to snooker Smucker - Climate alarm campaigners make pitiful case that manmade climate change threatens coffee. (September 18, 2011)
Spreading “Big Oil Subsidy” Disinformation - Meanwhile real subsidies are driving real businesses, energy and jobs out of America (August 28, 2011)
Climate prostitutes, charlatans and comedians - Their “research” would be hilarious if it didn’t cost taxpayers and consumers so dearly (August 25, 2011)
Obama, EPA & environmental lobby suppressing oil "reserves" (June 23, 2011)
Carbon and carbon dioxide: Clearing up the confusion (May 3, 2011)
Political payback – Oregon style - OSU tries to expel PhD candidate children of scientist who ran against Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-OR (April 26, 2011)
The US should follow Europe’s lead (April 19, 2011)
Fears and Facts (April 11, 2011)
Power for the people (April 4, 2011)
And the beat-down goes on (March 31, 2011)
Welcome to the Third World (March 17, 2011)
Wind power: questionable benefits, concealed impacts (March 1, 2011)
Environmentalist fraud and manslaughter (February 20, 2011)
Greens lie, Africans die - Co-authored with Robert Novak (January 15, 2011)
EPA’s Texas power grab - by Paul Driessen and Willie Soon (January 2, 2011)
Archives for 2010 :
Do you believe in magic … climate numbers? (December 13, 2010)
The Cancun wealth redistribution conference (December 7, 2010)
Lomborg’s wrong solution to a partly real problem - By Paul Driessen and Robert Carter (November 29, 2010)
End the ethanol subsidies - Congressional inaction would save taxpayers $6 billion, and bring other benefits too. (November 20, 2010)
REAL Crimes Against Humanity - Going beyond alarmist climate disinformation, to actively perpetuate poverty, disease, death. (November 14, 2010)
No more double standards (November 1, 2010)
Greens shackle national security – and renewable energy (October 3, 2010)
Unsustainable cow manure - Sustainable, affordable, eco-friendly renewable energy, my eye. (September 22, 2010)
3 Billion and Counting (September 12, 2010)
Street theater “education” - The climate and renewable energy con is losing its luster – prompting anguish and desperation. (September 9, 2010)
Crisis! New York style vs the real thing - Our obsession with pesticide “risks” has very different consequences for America and Africa (August 16, 2010)
Dumb policies just keep coming - E15 ethanol mandates would bring huge benefits – for the few, at the expense of the many (August 14, 2010)
Mrs. Madoff Exonerates Michael Mann (July 26, 2010)
It’s really about controlling our lives (July 19, 2010)
Destroying biodiversity (July 16, 2010)
Obama’s deliberate Katrina - Bungling the BP oil spill cleanup? Or never letting the crisis go to waste? (July 4, 2010)
A few questions for President Obama - How exactly does the President plan to create his new Green Jobs Economy? (June 28, 2010)
The right to choose – for farmers in Haiti - Anti-corporate activists pervert “social justice” and perpetuate poverty in Haiti (June 14, 2010)
Ken Cuccinelli v. 810 academics - Special Bulletin: Academic freedom is not a license to commit fraud (May 31, 2010)
Cause for alarm? - By Paul Driessen, Willie Soon and David R. Legates (May 24, 2010)
Questions posed for Kerry, Lieberman on new climate-energy bill (May 16, 2010)
Lessons from the Gulf blowout - (corrected text - republished 5/13/10) (May 13, 2010)
(Desperately) Looking for Arctic warming - by Paul Driessen and Willie Soon (May 4, 2010)
Disclosing the real risks of climate change (February 9, 2010)
Not exactly Mother Teresa - Unethical Greenpeace actions threaten the livelihoods and lives of millions (February 2, 2010)
Archives for 2009 :
Taxpayer Robbery Gate (December 30, 2009)
Life in a box - Is there an exit strategy for this energy, environment and economic predicament? (December 22, 2009)
We don’t need no stinkin’ evidence (December 11, 2009)
Cleaning out the climate science cesspool - The data manipulation and fraud stench is too strong to be ignored any longer. (December 1, 2009)
An alarmist modeler’s history of climate change (November 28, 2009)
Al Gore: Junk science huckster (November 27, 2009)
All Pain, No Gain (November 26, 2009)
Climate assumptions from another planet (October 19, 2009)
None dare call it fraud (October 17, 2009)
Adapting to climate change through technology - Saluting Norman Borlaug’s scientific, agricultural and humanitarian legacy (September 22, 2009)
Leader of none (September 9, 2009)
Taxpayer cash for clunker ideas (August 26, 2009)
Questions to ask at town hall meetings (August 8, 2009)
Forests of concrete and steel - Many words could describe wind energy and green jobs. “Sustainable” is not one of them. (July 27, 2009)
US Government’s Climate Con-job (June 24, 2009)
Climate change “morality” - The duplicitous politics of money, power, control and corporate rent-seeking (May 28, 2009)
Back to the “good old days” - US energy and climate plans would drag us back to 1905 – or 1862 (May 1, 2009)
President Obama’s red sea - Irresponsible federal spending, energy and climate change policies will bankrupt America (April 13, 2009)
Global warming “bait-and-switch” - Scientific “consensus” and other shady sales tactics promote alarmist theories (March 6, 2009)
It’s the Sun, stupid! (March 5, 2009)
Sick, irresponsible CSR (March 3, 2009)
Eco-colonialism degrades Africa - By Willie Soon and Paul Driessen (February 18, 2009)
“Just say no” to oil revenues? (January 17, 2009)
Archives for 2008 :
Remembering “The Express” - Written by Gordon Jackson (October 28, 2008)
Following Europe’s lead on climate change - Which lead should we follow? Even if it takes us off an economic cliff? To what end? (October 14, 2008)
Following Europe's Lead on Climate Change (October 11, 2008)
Killing Malarial Mosquitoes Now! - Enormous strides in controlling an ancient disease – but major challenges remain (October 9, 2008)
Green-collar jobs – or con jobs? (September 29, 2008)
The social responsibility of coal (September 3, 2008)
Blowing hot air up our shorts - Federal renewable energy mandates make good ad copy but lousy policy (July 29, 2008)
Drill here. Drill now. Drill ANWR. (July 1, 2008)
America’s native criminal class - Locking up energy, driving up prices and destroying jobs to “save the planet” (June 9, 2008)
Global warming tax hikes headi - Deficient computer models driv (April 21, 2008)
Still feeding the world - Norman Borlaug just turned 94 – and is still going strong (April 8, 2008)
Humpty Dumpty Environmental Policies - Playing games with language, justice and people’s lives (February 17, 2008)
Proposed Polar Bear ESA listing threatens you - Global warming regulations will come at you hard (January 21, 2008)
Archives for 2007 :
May you freeze in the dark - Season’s Greetings to a Romanian mining town from Ebenezer Soros and Friends (December 24, 2007)
Climate change rallies, realities and sacrifices - Confronting the true costs of climate change “prevention” (December 19, 2007)
Global warming insanity? - When do symbolic gestures turn into “doing something” about climate change? (September 9, 2007)
Keeping Romania impoverished (August 31, 2007)
An Appeal for Help (August 17, 2007)
Do-nothing energy policies - We need sound energy policy, not price-gouging anti-energy proposals (August 2, 2007)
Live Earth – Dead Africans? - Policies that prevent energy development have lethal consequences for Africa (July 19, 2007)
Climate ethics on Capitol Hill - The truth about climate change consensus, prevention and price tags. (July 6, 2007)
The “coal is filthy” ad-scam - Gas company ad campaign could impact US energy policies and consumers (May 23, 2007)
Pro-malaria forces resurface at WHO - Proposals to ban life-saving chemicals would cost countless lives (May 15, 2007)
World Fast Against Malaria - NEW YORK, NEW YORK May 08, 2007 Health News (May 9, 2007)
Forty years of perverse “social responsibility” (March 29, 2007)
Global warming ethics, pork and profits - Global warming alarmism generates political and financial incentives (February 6, 2007)
Archives for 2006 :
Climate McCarthyism and Eco-Inquisitions - Censoring news and views to advance ideologies and legislation (December 13, 2006)
The Real Climate Change Catastrophe, II (November 15, 2006)
The real climate change catastrophe - Misguided energy policies are harming the world’s poor (October 31, 2006)
Delaying technology can be deadly - Activist opposition to bio-pharmaceuticals perpetuates disease risks (October 26, 2006)
CORE and AFM condemn tobacco company for actions that imperil Ugandans (September 24, 2006)
Good news for malaria victims (September 20, 2006)
Activist fraud and fund raising - The world’s poor are mere pawns and collateral damage in the war on corporations. (September 7, 2006)
Nuclear to the rescue - Electricity is the key to a healthier, more prosperous Third World (August 29, 2006)
The truth about malaria and DDT (July 18, 2006)
Coburn to Barosso: End threats against African countries that use DDT to stop malaria (July 14, 2006)
CSR for thee, but not for me? - It’s time for NGOs to practice what they preach – and emulate what a company is doing in Peru (June 13, 2006)
Mediocrity reigns supreme - Congressional hot air substitutes for energy policy (June 6, 2006)
Mexican Immigrants, Reconquistas and Economic systems - What would the American Southwest look like under the Mexican system? (May 17, 2006)
Fasting Against Malaria (May 10, 2006)
Fast to Stop Malaria and Save Lives - International fast day to focus attention on the billions of people at risk from malaria (May 1, 2006)
Misguided social responsibility at General Electric (April 25, 2006)
Time to clean house at Goldman Sachs - Questionable ethics and conflicts of interest abound (March 29, 2006)
CBS’s Stem Cell Shenanigans - By Michael Fumento (March 9, 2006)
More than a day on a calendar - by Roy Innis (March 8, 2006)
PC malaria programs at the World Bank - by Cyril Boynes, Jr. and Paul Driessen (February 28, 2006)
What’s Up (or Down) with AIDS? - By Michael Fumento (February 20, 2006)
Religion science and blarney - “Evangelical Climate Initiative” does not represent vast majority of evangelicals (February 8, 2006)
Toss Out the New Orleans “Toxic Soup” Myth - By Michael Fumento (February 6, 2006)
Is the cell phone scare finally over? - by Michael Fumento (January 27, 2006)
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Biography - Paul Driessen
Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org ). He received his J.D. from the University of Denver College of Law.
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