Articles Tagged "Paul Driessen"

Secretary of State Kerry has put climate change above almost all the real problems that beset our nation and world. EPA is gearing up more regulations on carbon dioxide emissions, fracking and other supposed causes of “dangerous manmade global warming.” And various members of Congress are promoting carbon taxes and other job- and economy-killing initiatives. They all believe we face a serious, imminent climate crisis.

I fully agree. However, the crisis has nothing to do with weather and climate events – which have pounded human civilization from time immemorial.

Instead, the crisis has everything to do with the multitude of harmful actions being taken in the name of stabilizing Earth’s temperature, preventing climate change, and bequeathing to our children a “stable” planet that never was and never can be – including the EPA and congressional actions I just mentioned.

Even worse, as this week’s article makes clear, these are just the tip of the iceberg … of the harm that our own and other governments are inflicting.

Best regards,

The crisis is due not to climate change, but to actions taken in the name of preventing change

Paul Driessen

“Superstorm” Sandy killed more than 100 people, destroyed thousands of homes and businesses, and left millions without food, water, electricity, sanitation or shelter for days or even weeks. Our thoughts and prayers remain focused on its victims, many of whom are still grieving as they struggle with the storm’s wintry aftermath and try to rebuild their lives.

Unfortunately, too many politicians continue to use the storm to advance agendas, deflect blame for incompetence and mistakes, and obfuscate and magnify future risks from building and development projects that they have designed, promoted, permitted and profited from.

Sandy was “unprecedented,” the result of “weather on steroids,” various “experts” insist. “It’s global warming, stupid,” intoned Bloomberg BusinessWeek. “Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared. We must protect the great NY metropolis from rising oceans, said the Washington Post. This storm should “compel all elected leaders to take immediate action” on climate change, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pronounced.

Unfortunately for the politicians and spin-meisters, the facts do not support this obscene posturing.

North America’s northeastern coast has been battered by hurricanes and other major storms throughout history. A 1775 hurricane killed 4,000 people in Newfoundland; an 1873 monster left 600 dead in Nova Scotia; others pummeled Canada’s Maritime Provinces in 1866, 1886, 1893, 1939, 1959, 1963 and 2003.

Dear all

As a South African scientist and consultant who follows climate change and other environmental issues very closely, Dr. Kelvin Kemm always has unique perspectives to share with readers around the world who might otherwise receive only a western, first world or environmentalist viewpoint. His article today provides another timely analysis of environment and climate change issues, just as the UN global warming conference gets underway in Doha, Qatar.

As Dr. Kemm notes, far too much of what passes as science on climate change, melting polar ice caps and related issues is far removed from actual science. It thus provides a harmful, almost “Alice in Wonderland” parallel universe “reality” that ill serves our decisions on the most important energy, environmental and economic public policy issues of the day.

Best regards,

Paul Driessen

Senior policy advisor, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)

Kelvin Kemm: Alice in Wonderland science

Our energy and environment deserve better – in South Africa and Qatar

This week’s column addresses the fixation that far too many scientists, activists, politicians and regulators have on supposed “catastrophic manmade climate change” – as a justification for harmful and destructive energy and economic policies. It takes readers on a fast-paced tour of climate change hype, hysteria and reality, and concludes with cautionary advice about the ways ill-advised energy and climate policies are harming our nation and world.

Best regards,

Paul

Climate Alarmism: Our sanity and wallets need a break

Billions of taxpayer dollars are disrupting our politics, science, energy policies and economy

Pick up any 40-year-old science textbook – on chemistry, biology, geology, physics, astronomy or medicine – and you’ll find a slew of “facts” and theories that have been proven wrong or are no longer the “consensus” view. Climatology is no exception.

Back in the 1970s, many scientists warned of global cooling – and fretted that a new ice age brought on by fossil fuel use would cause glaciers to expand, wreaking havoc. They predicted every conceivable disaster, short of roving herds of wooly mammoths stampeding through ice-covered streets. (The possibility of cloning a well-preserved mammoth could buttress the next scary ice age scenario.)

Despite growing concern about the high costs and minimal benefits of the Environmental Protection Agency’s mercury, particulate, MACT, cross-state and other air pollution rules, the EPA has pushed forward with numerous rulemakings.

Dr. Willie Soon and I have followed this situation closely and written a number of articles about it. Indeed, Willie is one of the few people who have carefully analyzed EPA’s rulemakings; examined its analyses, assumptions, assertions and conclusions; and scrutinized the agency’s attempted medical and scientific justifications for the rules. Simply put, we vigorously disagree with EPA.

Our latest analysis strongly contests EPA’s methodologies, its latest rulemaking – and its most recent claims that the agency’s expensive “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants” will somehow protect Americans’ health.

Thank you for posting the article, quoting from it, and forwarding it to your friends and colleagues.

Best regards,

Paul

Agenda-driven “science” at EPA

My commentary this week calls attention to an absurd lawsuit by Penn State climatologist Michael Mann, who has sued Canadian climate scientist Tim Ball for allegedly defaming him through a little joke that played word games with “Penn State” and alluded to some of Mann’s questionable research practices.

What’s truly strange is that, just a couple weeks ago, Mann accused another climate scientist of “dishonest smears that have been manufactured by fossil fuel industry-funded climate change deniers, and those who do their bidding by lying to the public about the science.” This string of libels Mann does not consider libelous. But a little joke is.

Nevertheless, Mann’s lawsuit has put a lot of strain on Dr. Ball, who is now working with lawyers, preparing to defend himself – and launch a counteroffensive. In addition to explaining the facts surrounding this idiotic defamation suit, my article encourages people to support Dr. Ball’s legal defense fund – and in so doing protect their own freedoms and living standards.

Regards Paul

It’s libel – except when Mike does it

Millions of Americans shared the joy that erupted after the White House told the Environmental Protection Agency to shelve its plans for imposing tough new ground level ozone rules on the country. As a knowledgeable observer of government and regulations, you undoubtedly know vast numbers of other punitive regulations are still in the federal pipeline. However, I'm not sure all of your readers truly appreciate how much is heading our way … or what adverse impacts the coming rules will have on our lives and livelihoods – and people’s jobs, health and welfare.

My article today summarizes some of those new regulations, focusing on the most egregious and destructive rule-maker of all: the EPA.

Paul

Paul Driessen, senior policy advisor
Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow

Victory is sweet, but the war continues by Paul Driessen

Celebrate EPA’s withdrawal of job-killing ozone standards – but prepare for more onslaughts

Millions of Americans recently celebrated the demise of the Environmental Protection Agency’s job-killing ground-level ozone regulations. While a toast was appropriate, we shouldn’t drink too much champagne just yet.

Put these guys on Comedy Central. Put ‘em in an asylum … a mandatory restitution program … jail perhaps … or a witness protection program, if they turn state’s evidence on other perpetrators. But keep them away from our money – and our energy, economic, healthcare and education policies.

Climate prostitutes, parasites and charlatans have been devouring billions in US taxpayer dollars, year after year, plus billions more in corporate shareholder cash, activist foundation funds and state government grants. The laws, mandates, subsidies and regulations they advance have cost taxpayers and consumers still more billions for “alternative” energy and other schemes that send prices skyrocketing, kill jobs, and reduce health and living standards.

It’s time to end this destructive saga and, while we’re at it, pink-slip the politicians and bureaucrats who pour billions of hard-earned tax dollars into perpetual climate “research,” “education” and “environmental” programs. They’re actively complicit or have completely failed to perform proper due diligence.

Global cooling has morphed into global warming, climate change, global climate disruption, climate “weirding” and extreme weather events – always manmade, always imminently catastrophic, always requiring eternal research and wrenching societal transformation, to “save the planet.”

The endless absurdity oozing out of the climate change cesspool would be hilarious if it weren’t so costly.

This is a vital and timely column from three leaders of the Affordable Power Alliance, which represents the interests of poor, minority and senior citizens, employees and energy consumers.

It challenges EPA attempts to impose costly, job-killing new regulations on our nation’s energy producers – and warns that those rules could subject Americans to the same devastating consequences that Great Britain’s companies and citizens are suffering in the wake of obstinate climate change, fossil fuel and renewable power laws.

Congress rejected cap-tax-and-trade and other economy-killing legislation in the last session. For the White House, EPA and Interior Department to impose equally destructive controls, through an regulatory power-grab, is intolerable and unconstitutional.

Paul

Driving US families into fuel poverty

Will America learn in time from the price being paid by British companies and families?

by Niger Innis, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez and Amy Frederick

My CFACT colleague Duggan Flanakin has written a compelling column that outlines the real purpose of the UN and environmentalist global warming campaign: controlling economic growth and redistributing the world’s wealth and resources. He also explains why the world’s poor need abundant, reliable, affordable energy – and yet are being kept impoverished by policies that prevent them from having that energy and improving their lives.

I hope you will publish his column during this Christmas and New Year season of joy and hope – and thank you for considering it.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and a belated Happy Hanukkah to you and all your readers.

Paul

The Cancun climate con by Duggan Flanakin

The UN seeks to redistribute wealth, while CFACT works to reduce "energy poverty"