Paul Driessen, Author at CFACT

About Paul Driessen

Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, environment, climate and human rights issues. PAUL DRIESSEN is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and other public policy institutes that promote environmental stewardship, enhanced human health and welfare, and personal liberties and civil rights. He covers climate change, energy and environmental, human rights, corporate social responsibility, sustainable development, and renewable energy issues in articles and research papers, on radio programs and college campuses, and at professional and other conferences. His articles are posted regularly on Townhall.com, WattsUpWithThat.com and many other news and opinion websites and have been published in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Investor's Business Daily, Risk Management, World Commerce Review, American Coal, other periodicals, and Greenhaven Press “Opposing Viewpoints” books used in high schools and colleges His book Eco-Imperialism: Green Power - Black Death documents the harm that environmental policies often have on poor families, by restricting access to life-enhancing modern technologies. It has been published in the United States, Argentina (Spanish), Germany (German), Italy (Italy) and India (English). He also wrote Cracking Big Green: Saving the world from the Save-the-Earth money machine (with Ron Arnold), Miracle Molecule: Carbon dioxide, gas of life, and Climate Hype Exposed.

Profound lifestyle changes heading your way

“Dangerous man-made climate change” still animates Democrat and liberal politics. It’s used to justify a war on coal, restrictions on drilling and driving, cap-tax-and-trade schemes, wind and solar mandates, subsidies as high as $45,000 per electric car, higher fuel and electricity prices, and racketeering laws to prosecute anyone who questions the catechism of climate cataclysm. But the 2015 Paris climate pact necessitates even stronger actions – “profound lifestyle changes,” according to a new European Commission report.

By Paul Driessen |2016-03-21T04:34:35-04:00March 21st, 2016|15 Comments

Banning fossil fuel benefits

“Natural gas is a good, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi famously intoned. (Psssst. Ms. Nancy, natural gas is a fossil fuel.) “If I thought there was any evidence that drilling could save people money, I would consider it. But it won’t,” President Obama said in 2008. “We can’t drill our way out of the problem” of high energy prices and disappearing supplies, he still insisted two years later. How shocked he must be now. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing – aka, fracking – has unleashed a gusher of oil and natural gas, sent oil prices [...]

By Paul Driessen |2016-03-14T15:59:12-04:00March 12th, 2016|4 Comments

Are wind turbines killing whales?

Between January 9 and February 4 this year, 29 sperm whales got stranded and died on English, German and Dutch beaches. Did offshore wind farms play a role?

By Paul Driessen |2016-03-04T09:18:47-05:00March 4th, 2016|25 Comments

Obama battle cry: “Remember the climate!”

President Obama has issued an executive order directing the Department of Defense (and all other federal government agencies) to make preparing for global warming impacts a top priority, and treat climate change as our most serious national security threat.

By Paul Driessen |2016-02-22T17:14:21-05:00February 22nd, 2016|105 Comments

Base climate policies on reality, not deceit

Dangerous manmade global cooling, global warming, climate change, and extreme weather claims continue to justify what has become a $1.5-trillion-per-year industry: tens of billions spent annually on one-sided research and hundreds of billions sent to crony corporatists to subsidize replacing dependable, affordable carbon-based fuels with unreliable, expensive “renewable” energy. Some 50 million acres of U.S. crop and habitat land (equal to Wyoming) have been turned into corn-for-ethanol farms, biofuel plantations, and wind and solar installations. American forests are being converted to fuel for British power plants. Towering turbines butcher birds and bats, while Big Wind is exempted from endangered species rules [...]

By Paul Driessen |2016-01-29T10:18:55-05:00January 25th, 2016|Comments Off

Government’s Gold King whitewash

When a private citizen or company violates rules, misrepresents facts or pollutes a river, government penalties are swift and severe. It’s different when the government lies or screws up. Two weeks ago, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell testified before Congress on a toxic spill that federal and state agencies unleashed into western state rivers last August. Supervised by officials from the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (DRMS), an Environmental Restoration (ER) company crew excavated tons of rock and debris that had blocked the portal (entrance or adit) to the Gold King Mine above [...]

By Paul Driessen |2015-12-23T17:26:33-05:00December 23rd, 2015|9 Comments

Shafting taxpayers and promoting crony corporatism

Washington is trading an end to the 40-year-old oil export ban in exchange for an extension and perpetuation of renewable energy programs and President Obama’s Clean Power Plan

By Paul Driessen |2015-12-18T06:03:36-05:00December 17th, 2015|1 Comment

Reprieve! Binding Paris treaty now voluntary mush

Obligating the United States to slash its fossil fuel use, and send billions of taxpayer dollars annually to dictators, bureaucrats and crony industrialists in poor countries would be disastrous. Thank goodness it did not happen. But we are not out of the woods yet.

By Paul Driessen |2015-12-13T04:53:27-05:00December 13th, 2015|52 Comments

More outrages and insanities in Paris

President Obama and his UN colleagues are on a mission to ensure that the U.S. commits itself to drastic reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, thereby drastic reductions in the per capita income of Americans, and drastic reductions in human freedom - all for little or no environmental benefit. To accompllsh this, the alarmists tell us they are supposed to be far worse than the all-too-real butchery we have witnessed in San Bernardino, Boston, Fort Hood, Israel, Bali, Mali, Madrid, Mumbai, London, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Kenya, Nigeria – and Paris! With more to come.

By Paul Driessen |2015-12-11T12:20:58-05:00December 11th, 2015|7 Comments

A new strategy for tax cheats

The EPA and other Obama Administration agencdies pay out millions to those who review their work and then refuse to let even Congress see the results of the alleged research. Michael Mann got away with hiding the results of his own research from state government officials. All this and more to falsely convict carbon dioxide of causing climate calamity and then virtually ban the use of fossil fuels. This sham must stop.

By Paul Driessen |2015-12-11T01:38:17-05:00December 11th, 2015|Comments Off

Judicial activism endangering our citrus industry

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen explains how judicial activism and fear-mongering by anti-pesticide activists has left the citrus industry in Florida and California without a key tool -- sulfoxaflor -- to fight a massive invasion of the flying aphid-like Asian citrus psyllid, which has already cut the Florida citrus yield by 60%. This time, even the EPA is on the side of the growers -- and they are working with the Court to reverse the ban. But so should we.

By Paul Driessen |2015-11-22T09:57:02-05:00November 22nd, 2015|Comments Off

Elizabeth and Sheldon Torquemada

Today Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) are pursuing their own inquisition against perceived “heretics.” You might be on the list.

By Paul Driessen |2015-10-19T15:17:48-04:00October 19th, 2015|19 Comments

Alarmists want skeptics prosecuted under RICO

Climate campaigning scientists want anyone who points out the flaws in their work prosecuted as organized criminals under RICO.

By Paul Driessen |2015-10-01T05:14:17-04:00September 30th, 2015|75 Comments

Global warming insanity on steroids!

The agenda being driven by President Obama, Pope Francis, the UN and Climate Crisis, Inc. means our huddled masses will be forced to share ever-greater scarcity, ever-lower living standards, ever-fewer jobs and opportunities.

By Paul Driessen |2015-09-21T15:39:23-04:00September 21st, 2015|57 Comments

EPA’s clean power fraud

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen makes a strong case for reining in the Environmental Protection Agency to protect the future of American prosperity. For example, the EPA's new Clean Power Plan may triple or even quadruple electricity rates in states now heavily dependent on coal for electricity generation. Sue and settle, junk science, and even deceptive or fraudulent practices by EPA employees must be curtailed.

By Paul Driessen |2015-09-02T17:01:04-04:00September 2nd, 2015|3 Comments