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.

Follow the science on nutrition

Many suggestions in the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans – the official government recommendations for a healthy diet – are based on outdated data.

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Materials Acquisition for Global Industrial Change (MAGIC)

Biden relies on the climate crisis creed and MAGICal thinking to transform U.S.

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|2021-05-04T17:48:35-04:00May 6th, 2021|Comments Off on Materials Acquisition for Global Industrial Change (MAGIC)

Saving pollinators from an imaginary bee-pocalypse

Honeybees are OK, despite varroa mites, the Covid-driven economy and other problems

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|2021-04-13T10:21:40-04:00April 14th, 2021|Comments Off on Saving pollinators from an imaginary bee-pocalypse

The social costs of carbon cancellation

Banning carbon-based fuels will impose enormous costs that Team Biden deliberately ignores.

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|2021-03-14T20:27:28-04:00March 15th, 2021|Comments Off on The social costs of carbon cancellation

REAL threats to threatened species

Not from climate change or modern farming – but from climate and organic policies.

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|2021-02-28T19:50:15-05:00March 4th, 2021|Comments Off on REAL threats to threatened species

Suspect science threatens US farming – again

The Left's anti-science phobias threaten agriculture - our food supply.

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|2021-02-18T18:28:41-05:00February 20th, 2021|Comments Off on Suspect science threatens US farming – again

Chew gum – for pleasure, taste and health

Even Emily Post approves, as long as you chew quietly and don’t disturb people around you.

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|2021-01-30T22:56:10-05:00February 2nd, 2021|Comments Off on Chew gum – for pleasure, taste and health

Two nuclear options

One threatens our democracy, the other promises hope for economy, environment and country.

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|2021-01-27T21:10:02-05:00January 29th, 2021|Comments Off on Two nuclear options

Green New Deal ideologies, fantasies and realities

Your life, living standards, country and planet will take a big hit under the Green New Deal.

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|2021-01-14T23:38:46-05:00January 15th, 2021|Comments Off on Green New Deal ideologies, fantasies and realities

Send the Paris Climate Treaty to the Senate

The most far-reaching international agreement ever must get the Senates advice, consent and a vote.

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|2020-12-09T10:40:18-05:00December 9th, 2020|Comments Off on Send the Paris Climate Treaty to the Senate

Sheldon Whitehouse’s climate inquisition

Senator Torquemada wants to jail those who dissent from his views on climate.

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|2020-12-02T09:10:42-05:00December 2nd, 2020|Comments Off on Sheldon Whitehouse’s climate inquisition

Your life under the Green New Deal

Your life, living standards and world would suffer dramatically.

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|2020-10-06T22:12:41-04:00October 5th, 2020|Comments Off on Your life under the Green New Deal

‘Climate arson’ and other wildfire nonsense

The real goal is to avoid responsibility for policies, and increase control over energy, lives, property.

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|2020-09-23T08:36:29-04:00September 23rd, 2020|Comments Off on ‘Climate arson’ and other wildfire nonsense

Green New Deal disruption and destruction

The cost of this massive, total transformation of our energy and economic system would easily reach $10 trillion: $30,000 per person or $120,000 per family – on top of skyrocketing electricity prices

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The staggering human costs of “renewable” energy

Child labor, human rights abuses and deaths are routinely ignored by Greens and Democrats.

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|2020-08-13T10:01:48-04:00August 9th, 2020|Comments Off on The staggering human costs of “renewable” energy
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