Paul Driessen's Past Articles

67 articles

American energy can jump-start US recovery

published: December 19, 2011

Our nation’s economic growth may finish an anemic 2% on the year. Faced with looming taxes and regulations, few companies are expanding, hiring or buying equipment. More than 14 million Ameri...

Electricity, parks and progress for Chile

published: November 13, 2011

Progress improves lives. It brings better, cleaner, more energy efficient technology. It reduces poverty and improves working conditions, health, nutrition, living standards and social equity. It g...

It’s libel – except when Mike does it

published: October 26, 2011

Lewis Carroll died too soon. Just imagine the fun he’d have with the cliquish clan of climate catastrophe researchers who seek to control science, debate and public policy on global warming a...

What the frack is going on here?

published: October 03, 2011

Hydraulic fracturing sends “huge volumes of toxic fluids” deep underground at high pressure, to fracture shale rock and release natural gas, Food & Water Watch claims. “Billio...

Delaware’s very own Solyndra

published: September 27, 2011

Delaware’s political establishment thinks First State electricity consumers should subsidize the manufacturing of super-sized fuel cells, under the auspices of California-based Bloom Energy, ...

Victory is sweet, but the war continues

published: September 21, 2011

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 dri...

Trying to snooker Smucker

published: September 18, 2011

It’s a common tactic among groups promoting climate alarmism and anti-hydrocarbon policies. As evidence mounts that manmade catastrophic climate change is not imminent, extreme weather events...

Our least sustainable energy option

published: September 03, 2011

President Obama and a chorus of environmentalists, politicians, corporate executives and bureaucrats are perennially bullish on wind power as the bellwether of our “clean energy economy of th...

Climate prostitutes, charlatans and comedians

published: August 24, 2011

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 evid...

What’s really killing carbon capture and storage?

published: August 02, 2011

Carbon capture and storage could ensure abundant electricity from coal, while cutting the CO2 emissions “responsible for climate change.” Yet, barely two years after “a sense of d...

Clearing the air

published: June 26, 2011

Ever since public, congressional and union anger and anxiety persuaded the Environmental Protection Agency to delay action on its economy-strangling carbon dioxide rules, EPA has been on a take-no-...

The myth of killer mercury

published: June 07, 2011

The Environmental Protection Agency recently issued 946 pages of new rules, requiring that U.S. power plants sharply reduce (already low) emissions of mercury and 83 other air pollutants. EPA Admin...

Oil “subsidy” and “tax breaks” nonsense

published: May 21, 2011

President Obama frequently says Americans “need to end our $4 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies to oil companies.” The latest Democrat bill would have repealed some $2 billion of wha...

Rants, lies, subsidies and job-killing policies

published: May 17, 2011

President Obama’s speeches sum up his views on oil, natural gas and energy prices in just 44 words. “We have less than 2% of the world’s oil reserves. We’re running out of ...

Thrice! Taking cancer to the mat

published: May 07, 2011

When my daughter learned she would have to endure still more intensive chemotherapy for her leukemia, a tear welled up in her eye. She would now be homebound at least two more months, and attending...

Carbon and carbon dioxide: Clearing up the confusion

published: April 30, 2011

We are constantly bombarded with information – much of it inaccurate, misleading, even deliberately so. We are frequently told we must reduce carbon emissions, support “carbon disclosu...

Political payback – Oregon style

published: April 23, 2011

Confused visitors will be forgiven for thinking Oregon State University is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Congressman Pete DeFazio and the “progressive-socialist” wing of the Democratic P...

The US should follow Europe’s lead

published: April 18, 2011

President Obama and environmentalists often say America should follow Europe’s lead on energy, climate and economic matters. Recent events suggest that we should listen more attentively to t...

Fears and facts

published: April 11, 2011

The ground hadn’t stopped shaking. Tsunami waters had not receded. And yet coverage of this awful natural disaster – a scene of almost unfathomable devastation and death – was alr...

Power for the people

published: April 02, 2011

In a scene reminiscent of Colonial Williamsburg, for 16 years Thabo Molubi and his partner had made furniture in South Africa’s outback, known locally as the “veld,” using nothing...

Welcome to the Third World

published: March 12, 2011

As Britain suffered through its coldest December in a century, families were forced to choose between keeping homes warm and feeding their children nourishing meals – thanks to climate polici...

Wind power: questionable benefits, concealed impacts

published: February 28, 2011

America is running out of natural gas. Prices will soar, making imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) and T Boone Pickens’ wind farm plan practical, affordable and inevitable. That was then. ...

It is strictly prohibited for military superiors to become unduly familiar with subordinates. Officers, and especially officers in command positions,

published: January 15, 2011

Fina’s little body shook for hours with teeth-chattering chills. The next day her torment worsened, as nausea and vomiting continued even after there was nothing left in her stomach. Finally,...

EPA’s Texas power grab

published: January 01, 2011

Any Texas granddaddy will tell you he’s seen it all, when it comes to weather and climate extremes. Tornadoes, hurricanes, heat waves, blizzards, droughts, flash floods, and storms that bring...

Do you believe in magic … climate numbers?

published: December 11, 2010

Average annual global temperatures have risen a degree or two since the Little Ice Age ended some 150 years ago. Thank goodness. The LIA was not a particularly pleasant time. Prolonged winters, ad...