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Is it climate socialism – or eco-fascism?
By Paul Driessen | October 27, 2019 Green New Deal climate alarm socialism is really intolerant, totalitarian eco-fascism Green New Dealers have convinced themselves that our planet faces an imminent, existential, manmade climate cataclysm – that can be prevented solely and simply by government edicts replacing fossil fuels with biofuel, wind, solar and battery energy. They achieve this state of absolute certainty largely by propagating constant scare stories, while ignoring and suppressing contradictory evidence and viewpoints. They deliberately and deceptively talk about "carbon pollution." Carbon is soot – what our cars, factories and power plants now emit in very small …
A Red Team review of climate crisis assertions
By Paul Driessen June 19, 2019 Gavin Schmidt's spat with Steve Koonin underscores why we need to debate climate change Various scientists, politicians and activists have long insisted that the United States and world must end fossil fuel use to prevent dangerous manmade global warming, climate change and extreme weather disasters. They say "the science is settled" and the time to act is now. Many other experts have pointed out that these dire threats are the product of hypotheses and computer models that are largely contradicted by actual observations and historic records for temperatures, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, droughts, Arctic and …
Shutting down middle and blue-collar America
By Paul Driessen June 13, 2019 From Biden to Warren, Democrat president wannabes push job-killing pseudo-green policies Vocal activists increasingly drive Democrat Party positions across the public policy spectrum. Print, television, social and click-bait media generally support them, while permitting little debate on liberal proposals or their potential ramifications. Even semi-moderate Joe Biden has been pressured into shifting or flipping his positions on abortion, energy, climate change and other issues, to satisfy far-left factions.
Ending Obama EPA climate deception
By Paul Driessen May 19, 2019 Let's finally review Endangerment Finding used to justify trillions in climate and energy costs In December 2009, the Obama Environmental Protection Agency issued its Endangerment Finding (EF) – decreeing that carbon dioxide (CO2) and other "greenhouse gases" (GHGs) endanger the health and welfare of Americans. In the process, EPA ignored the incredible economic, health and welfare benefits of fossil fuels – and the fact that (even at just 0.04% of the atmosphere) carbon dioxide is the miracle molecule that enables plants to grow and makes nearly all live on Earth possible. EPA turned …
Fear, loathing, intolerance – and worse
By Paul Driessen May 15, 2019 The climate-fearing, capitalism-loathing Left cannot abide questions or differing opinions Throughout history despots had effective ways of reducing dissension in the ranks. Inquisitors burned heretics. Nazi's burned books – before taking far more extreme measures. Soviets employed famines, gulags, salt mines and executions. ChiComs and other tyrants starved, jailed and murdered millions. Today's Green New Dealers and their allies have mapped out their own totalitarian strategies. They proclaim themselves socialists, but their economic policies and tolerance for other viewpoints reflect a different form of government – fascism: A political system in which authoritarian …
Stop the anti-climate science totalitarians
By Paul Driessen March 8, 2019 They want to upend and transform America, but demand No Debate on underlying "science" Democrats, climate campaigners and renewable energy interests are in full outrage mode over news that President Trump intends to launch a Presidential Committee on Climate Science. He should do it now.
AOC says America should lead the world
By Paul Driessen February 18, 2019 In committing national economic suicide and sending living standards back to 19th century 29-year old ex-bartender and freshman U.S. Representative (D-NY) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received thunderous environmentalist and media acclaim when she introduced her Green New Deal resolution in the House and Ed Markey (D-MA) submitted it in the Senate. It was quickly endorsed or cosponsored by scores of House and Senate Dems, including many who want to run against President Trump in 2020. But within days the GND was subjected to rigorous analysis (and ridicule) by energy experts, President Trump, Republicans, conservative pundits and …
By Paul Driessen Feb. 3, 2019 Courts should bar evidence that fails to meet basic standards of honesty, integrity and credibility A California jury recently awarded $289 million in damages (later reduced to $78 million) to a former groundskeeper, who claimed the weed killer glyphosate caused his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and Monsanto deliberately or negligently failed to warn him adequately about the chemical's cancer risks. The case is on appeal, and a second trial will soon begin before U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria, who himself has 620 more glyphosate cases on his docket. Overall, more than 9,300 additional cases …
Climate hysterics skyrocket
By Paul Driessen Jan. 21, 2019 Increasingly absurd disaster rhetoric is consistently contradicted by climate and weather reality Call it climate one-upmanship. It seems everyone has to outdo previous climate chaos rhetoric. The "climate crisis" is the "existential threat of our time," Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her House colleagues. We must "end the inaction and denial of science that threaten the planet and the future."
By Tom D. Tamarkin Jan. 9, 2019 Why Big Green energy investors rely on the man-made global warming myth Supposedly "green" or "renewable" energy has become a trillion-dollar-plus annual industry that has spawned tens of thousands of new businesses worldwide. The total Climate-Industrial Complex is a $2-trillion-per-year business. Major fossil fuel companies like Shell Energy now have green energy divisions. These companies are virtually 100% dependent on the politically driven notion of "dangerous manmade global warming and climate change." The media, public and political establishment constantly recite the assertion that 97% of scientists say the problem is real and manmade …