Environmentalism

Radical environmentalists put people last, and destroy habitats and wildlife to end fossil fuels.

The grim irony of the pursuit of “green” energy is that it may be placing millions of people in poor countries at risk of living much shorter, unhealthier lives due to air pollution.

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen warns that the impending lawsuits against oil and gas companies — created by corrupt city governments as a last-gasp hope for escaping bankruptcy — pose grave danger for the U.S. economy should these cities succeed. Yet, says Driessen, the very premises of these suits suggests they should be thrown out of court.

Data specialist Justhy Deva Prasad encourages the better use of available data — with appropriate action the data call for — by governments in particular to protect citizens from dangerous threats to their health and safety. He further shows how the failure to properly use data in disaster prevention strategies yielded bad results from Fukushima, Superstorm Sandy, ongoing California wildfires, andOroville Dam. And public officials should be held accountable for their failures.

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen strongly recommends reading geologist Gregory Wrightstone’s new 123-page book, “Inconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You To Know” as a tool for refuting the wild claims of climate alarmists and their minions.

CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen sings an ode to the benefits of federalism and other gifts from the founders in an article inspired by a jazz combo. He reports that the 2016 election was swung in “flyover country” out of a growing frustration with an ever-expanding federal government that had largely discarded the concept of federalism and was dictating too many aspects of our lives.

Blue State residents are turning blue from the cold that their solar heaters and wind turbines cannot rescue them from — but Blue State politicians insist on blaming fossil fuels for making their residents cold (global warming actually means colder winters, right?). CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen points out the hypocrisies of the leftists who seek to win through censorship of factual information and opinions not in alignment with their fantasized story lines about climate and more.

CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen pulls no punches, calling today’s ethanol and biofuels mandates and subsidies a fascistic scheme that harms both the economy and the environment and does nothing to conserve domestic energy while doing a lot to stifle economic growth. He urges the swift repeal of ethanol and biofuels mandates.

CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen warns that a pending Supreme Court case could leave property owners at the mercy of federal bureaucrats who would have absolute authority to order them to renovate their property to welcome endangered species — at their own expense, even if the species was not native to the property.

CFACT policy advisor Larry Bell lauds the first steps taken by the Trump Administration to restore NASA to its primary mission — and encourages that the agency needs to press on with a mission to Mars.

In an article published in The Hill, CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen reports that the 3-2 vote by the Nebraska Public Service Commission to approve a new route through the state for the long-delayed Keystone Pipeline may or may not signal completion of the pipeline is near. Read the excerpt here, and the full article in The Hill.

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen, a Virginia resident, laments the direction that newly elected Governor Ralph Northam is taking the people of the state — into restrictions on carbon dioxide that include cap-and-trade emissions buying and selling — and other foolish schemes that will harm the poor and lower middle classes the most and do little or nothing to change the Earth’s climate.

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen lauds President Trump and his administration for rolling back Obama era restrictions on fossil fuels that had already hurt the U.S. economy — the rollbacks should unleash massive economic growth and create lots of jobs.

CFACT policy advisor Larry Bell reveals the depths to which top bureaucrats at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) fudged data so they could falsely report that carbon dioxide emissions were causing massive acidification of the Earth’s oceans and that ocean temperatures had warmed twice as much as honest data showed.

Not only has capitalism lifted more people out of poverty than any system ever implemented in the history of civilization, but in so doing, it has done more to protect the environment than any socialist or communist initiative.

CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen reports on the legal and political war against glyphosate — a pesticide claimed to be a “possible” carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer despite repeated peer-reviewed studies showing the opposite is true. The IARC finding was exposed as fraudulent by two Reuters reporters, for ignoring contrary evidence, manufacturing evidence, and suppressing access to their “research.”

This is the third sound science climate flick in less than a month, which is good news indeed.

Ugandan author Steven Lyazi scoffs at the chiding and covert racism of wealthy environmental advocates who live in luxury but demand a lower quality lifestyle for Africans. He points the finger at the Club of Rome for banning DDT once they realized that Africans not dying from malaria and other diseases would live longer and have more children. His words echo the toothless declarations that sustainable development restrictions should not apply to the very poor.

“This action … comes as courts around the world are beginning to hold that nature and ecosystems possess legally enforceable rights,” CELDF’s International Center for the Rights of Nature Director Mari Margil said in a press release from Sept. 21.

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen rebuts arguments from alarmists that recent hurricanes are evidences of the damages of global warming. Indeed, Driessen shows how the use of fossil fuels has dramatically reduced the cost in human life from hurricanes and other severe weather events.