Paul Driessen's Past Articles

31 articles

Crisis! New York style vs the real thing

published: August 16, 2010

“Don’t let the bedbugs bite” is no longer a fashionable good-night wish for Big Apple kids, even in the city’s high-rent districts and posh hotels. Growing infestations of t...

Dumb policies just keep coming

published: August 08, 2010

If 10% ethanol in gasoline is good, 15% (E15) will be even better. At least for some folks. We’re certainly heading in that direction – thanks to animosity toward oil, natural gas and ...

Climate proposals threaten pursuit of happiness and justice

published: July 31, 2010

Environmental justice demands that the United States address global warming, the gravest threat facing minority Americans, insist the EPA, Congressional Black Caucus and White House. Are they serio...

Mrs. Madoff exonerates Michael Mann

published: July 26, 2010

Pennsylvania State University recently released a report summarizing its final “investigation” into whether one of its employees had committed scientific misconduct. The report exonerat...

It’s really about controlling our lives

published: July 18, 2010

Within days, Majority Leader Harry Reid intends to bring sweeping energy and climate legislation to the Senate floor. He won't call it cap-and-trade or cap-tax-and-trade, and certainly not a carbon...

Destroying biodiversity

published: July 12, 2010

The Soviet Union’s demise helped usher in manmade catastrophic global warming as the new “central organizing principle of civilization.” Now, global warming is giving way to a gro...

Obama’s deliberate Katrina

published: July 04, 2010

Back in May, a television news program asked me if I’d tell America the BP oil spill is President Obama’s Katrina. We discussed the spill’s causes, effects and cleanup effort, but...

Capitalizing on the latest crisis

published: June 17, 2010

Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., Niger Innis and Reverend Samuel Rodriquez Business and capitalism are dirty words in many White House and progressive circles, except in two ways. Business is good when...

The right to choose – for farmers in Haiti

published: June 13, 2010

The Monsanto Company is learning a valuable lesson in Haiti: no good deed goes unpunished at the hands of radical anti-corporate elements of Western society. Like so many other concerned citizens,...

The chasm between Apollo and the Gulf

published: June 02, 2010

President Obama’s Administration and its supportive media repeatedly say our 1970 Apollo 13 experience is analogous to the effort to contain and cap the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gul...

Ken Cuccinelli v. 810 academics

published: May 30, 2010

“Scientific debates should be played out in the academic arena,” insists University of Virginia environmental sciences professor David Carr. “If Michael Mann’s conclusions a...

Cause for alarm?

published: May 24, 2010

We’re often asked, What really causes all these alarms about global warming disasters? As scientists and policy analysts who’ve studied our ever-changing climate for a combined 65 year...

A few questions for climate alarmists

published: May 15, 2010

The new Kerry-Lieberman climate bill mandates a 17% reduction in US carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. It first targets power plants that provide reliable, affordable electricity for American homes,...

Lessons from the Gulf blowout

published: May 09, 2010

Transocean’s semi-submersible drilling vessel Deepwater Horizon was finishing work on a wellbore that had found oil 18,000 feet beneath the seafloor, in mile-deep water fifty miles off the Lo...

(Desperately) Looking for Arctic warming

published: May 03, 2010

First American Ann Bancroft and Norwegian Liv Arnesen trekked off across the Arctic in the dead of the 2007 winter, “to raise awareness about global warming,” by showcasing the wide exp...

Disclosing the real risks of climate change

published: February 08, 2010

We are not weighing in on the climate debate. We are not opining on whether the world’s climate is changing, at what pace or due to what causes, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Ma...

Not exactly Mother Teresa

published: January 18, 2010

Should corporate ethics principles apply only to profit-making companies? Or should they also cover nonprofit corporations, especially those that badger for-profits to be more “socially responsible...

Taxpayer Robbery Gate

published: December 28, 2009

Aside from ideologues, hydrocarbon haters, Gaia worshipers, profiteers and power-grabbing politicians, most of the sentient world is beginning to realize that the hysteria over global warming disas...

Life in a box

published: December 21, 2009

“Life in a box is better than no life at all,” playwright Tom Stoppard famously opined, through the personage of Rosencrantz. (Or was it Guildenstern?) That’s lucky for us, because our energy, e...

Cleaning out the climate science cesspool

published: November 30, 2009

As frigid Copenhagen prepares for the upcoming Climate Armageddon confab, a predictable barrage of hothouse horrors has been unleashed, to advance proposals to slash hydrocarbon use and carbon diox...

An alarmist modeler’s history of climate change

published: November 17, 2009

Behind the persistent global warming scare is the hypothesis and assertion that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are causing Earth to warm dangerously. The thesis is espoused most promi...

Al Gore: Junk science huckster

published: November 14, 2009

House Global Warming Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) was outraged that a renegade freelance lobbyist had sent a dozen phony letters to members of Congress, urging them to vote against cap-an...

All Pain, No Gain

published: November 13, 2009

“Electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket” under cap-and-trade,” President Obama has admitted. “Industry will have to retrofit its operations. That will cost money, and...

IBD commentary -- Climate assumptions from another planet

published: October 19, 2009

As the 821-page Kerry-Boxer climate bill gets fast-tracked in the Senate, as a companion to the 1427-page House bill, it is critical that we reexamine the assumptions behind cap-tax-and-trade legis...

None dare call it fraud

published: October 16, 2009

Imagine the reaction if investment companies provided only rosy stock and economic data to prospective investors; manufacturers withheld chemical spill statistics from government regulators; or med...