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<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">powCORE as zombie? innis wise use militiacapt 716920 see wheeler opportunity zone BS=see soon on mercury BS reprinted in heartland<div>=aha: origin was some int'l conf? ~ DDT BS?  2022 getting mainstreamed as phase 4 fallback denial--> delayism; // lomborg?documentaries<a href="https://www.desmog.com/2015/11/19/evangelical-christian-zeal-behind-marc-morano-s-climate-denial-documentary-climate-hustle/">https://www.desmog.com/2015/11/19/evangelical-christian-zeal-behind-marc-morano-s-climate-denial-documentary-climate-hustle/</a>The Evangelical Christian Climate Deniers Behind Marc Morano’s Climate Hustle DocumentaryBy Graham Readfearn on Nov 19, 2015 One unambiguous video title states that “Climate Policies kill. People will die”, while others scream how moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions “devalues human life” and “kills thousands” in Britain.All this extremist language comes from the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, a US-based Christian evangelical group that rejects climate science and is preparing to release a new documentary in the coming weeks.Cornwall has been posting preview clips under the banner “Greener on the other Side: Climate Alarmism – Fact, Not Fear” on its YouTube page.The views in the clips are extreme but represent a grab bag of climate science denialist talking points, ignoring the mountains of evidence gathered from multiple sources over many decades of the impacts of loading the atmosphere and the oceans with carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.The clips cut across energy policy and climate science and claim, amongst other things, there is no evidence to support cuts to the use of fossil fuels which are beneficial to the planet. In one segment, the alliance’s supposed climate experts promote creationism.  “There has to be a designer – a creator behind this,” says David Legates.The Cornwall Alliance is preparing to release the full DVD at the end of November under the title “Where the Grass is Greener”, only days before another climate science denial documentary, Climate Hustle, gets its premiere in Paris.The two films also share a number of experts, including statistician William Briggs, climate denial activist Tom Harris, Australian “sceptic” Bob Carter, British peer Lord Christopher Monckton and blogger Anthony Watts.But the similarities between Greener on the Other Side and Climate Hustle do not stop there, because both films share the same director in Chris Rogers and were produced by his company – CDR Communications.Rogers’ CDR Communications was also behind another Cornwall Alliance extremist video effort in 2010 — Resisting the Green Dragon — that claimed environmentalism was a “false religion” and that it was a cover story for a “global government” power grab.Rogers is also the chairman of The James Partnership, the umbrella arm that includes the Cornwall Alliance as one of its projects and pays the salary of Calvin Beisner, Cornwall’s founder and spokesperson.While Cornwall Alliance will be unlikely to gain traction for its DVD outside of evangelical Christian circles, Marc Morano has much greater ambitions for Climate Hustle.Climate science denialist Morano is the bombastic communications director for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT).As DeSmog reported, after a “red carpet premier” of the film that Morano modestly claims will “rock the climate debate”, CFACT wants a US cinema release for the documentary, followed by DVD sales and then distribution in schools and colleges.In the most recent trailer for Climate Hustle, CDR Communications staffer Anna Milograno is credited as the editor, with Rogers as the producer and director. In two earlier trailers, CDR Communications staffers Ian Jelliffe and Jay Kim were also credited, alongside “director of photography Joseph Rossell”.Rossell is a research analyst at the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) who has been writing stories attacking climate science on his IRD blog Juicy Ecumenism and also on the NewsBusters website. NewsBusters is a project of the Media Research Center (MRC), which describes itself as “America’s leading media watchdog in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.”Morano has previously credited MRC as helping to produce Climate Hustle by providing access to archive news footage.  Morano once worked as a journalist at Cybercast News Service, another MRC project.Both MRC and CFACT have previously accepted grants from oil company ExxonMobil, which is currently under investigation by the New York attorney general for allegedly lying about the risks of climate change to the public and investors.In the latest Cornwall Alliance film, Paul Driessen, CFACT‘s senior policy advisor, says: “I’m often accused of taking fossil fuel money – I’m still waiting for the check from ExxonMobil”.Understanding the links between Morano, Climate Hustle and evangelical religion reveals an irony.  Morano and other climate science deniers will frequently attempt to disparage climate science by comparing it to a kind of religion, implying that they are blinded by faith.Yet the very people Morano employed to produce his new documentary are fundamentalist Christians with a warped view on science. The one being blinded by faith, it seems, is Morano himself.</div><div>=</div>=<h3 style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" em="em" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">Pruitt's prospects</h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">Here are some of the skeptical nominees under consideration:<p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">Joseph D'Aleo, a certified consultant meteorologist and co-founder of the Weather Channel: He has run climate skeptic websites and has appeared as a speaker at Heartland conferences. D'Aleo said his priority on the board would be attacking the endangerment finding, the legally binding document that holds that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases harm human health and must be regulated by the executive branch. He said he wants to challenge the finding because it could otherwise be used later to build back Obama-era environmental regulations.<aside id="image_asset_layout_21609" class="left span4 image_asset_layout" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" float="float" left="left" max-width="max-width" width="width">
Edwin Berry. edberry.com</aside><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">"We're going to push for reconsideration, start from scratch and put together the best science," he said. "If CO2 is not a serious pollutant, let's focus the attention of the EPA on other issues."<p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">Edwin Berry, a meteorologist and atmospheric scientist: He has funded his own climate research and says human carbon dioxide emissions do not cause climate change. He has compared those who believe in human-caused climate change to "Aztecs who believed they could make rain by cutting out beating hearts and rolling decapitated heads down temple steps." On his Twitter account, he has called Islam "a death cult" and has encouraged motorists to drive into protesters.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">Berry, in an email to E&E News today, described his tweet as a joke and said he does not advocate violence.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">"Clearly, my tween says to slowly drive to not hurt anyone," Berry said in the email, misspelling "tweet."<aside id="image_asset_layout_21607" class="right span5 image_asset_layout" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" float="float" right="right" max-width="max-width" width="width">brn
<p class="caption" style="margin: 3px 2px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kevin Dayaratna. Heritage Foundation</aside><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">Berry, who confirmed that he and a number of other skeptics were nominated by Heartland, said he wants to use his position on the board to show that humans barely contribute to atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, which he claimed are mostly driven by natural factors.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">"Let's get over this whole thing about climate change being an important thing, because in fact we humans have a negligible impact on climate," he said. "And if we had the Paris Agreement and everything else, it wouldn't do any good anyway."<p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">Alan Carlin, a retired EPA employee who is affiliated with Heartland: He fought the agency's crafting of the endangerment finding. Carlin, an economist, was at the center of a political firestorm under Obama after he produced a widely criticized 93-page report comprising cherry-picked scientific data and blog entries concluding that regulating carbon dioxide was "the worst mistake that EPA has ever made."<p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">Kevin Dayaratna, a statistician at the conservative Heritage Foundation: His report was cited by Trump as a reason to withdraw from the Paris climate accord. It claimed that the agreement could shrink U.S. gross domestic product by $2.5 trillion within two decades (though Trump stated the impact as coming within a decade). The report was criticized by some as being misleading, because that amount is less than 1 percent of the aggregate GDP over that period and the report did not account for the cost of taking no climate change action. Dayaratna was invited to attend Trump's withdrawal announcement in June in the White House Rose Garden.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">Craig Idso, a senior fellow at the Heartland Institute: He has researched the benefits of atmospheric carbon dioxide. His work has centered on highlighting how increased carbon dioxide will benefit plants.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline"><strong style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Paul Driessen, a senior policy adviser at the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a libertarian environmental think tank: His organization handed out leaflets at a climate protest this year in Washington, D.C., that said, "CO2 is not the 'control knob' of the climate." He also co-founded Climate Exit, or "Clexit," which criticized the science behind the Paris climate agreement and holds that spiking levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide benefit the Earth. "The world must abandon this suicidal Global Warming crusade," the group stated in its founding statement. "Man does not and cannot control the climate."<p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">Gordon Fulks, a physicist and adviser to the Cascade Policy Institute, an Oregon-based libertarian think tank: He has denied that net sea ice melt is occurring and that the Earth is warming. He has said those who express concern about climate change are like a "societal pathogen that virulently spreads misinformation in tiny packages like a virus."<p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">Anthony Lupo, another founding member of Clexit: He has received support from the Heartland Institute and helped in the unsuccessful fight against the endangerment finding in court.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">Leighton Steward, a former energy company executive and a founder of groups that promote the rise of carbon dioxide as a benefit: He has also encouraged the United States to drop out of the Paris climate accord and says that natural warming is raising the temperature of the Earth.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">David Legates, a professor of climatology at the University of Delaware: He has denied that human-caused climate change could have catastrophic consequences and has co-authored climate research claiming polar bears are not harmed by human-caused climate change that was quietly funded, at least in part, by Koch Industries Inc.<h3 style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background="background" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" em="em" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline">Critics want to boot EPA 'cronies'</h3><div>=</div><div><div>no lnx many</div><div>
</div><div>Woke Companies Must Wake Up on ESG</div><div>Paul DriessenPaul Driessen|Posted: Sep 04, 2021 </div><div>The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.</div><div>
</div><div>Growing numbers of companies, banks, universities and investment houses are adopting Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards and disclosure rules. They’re pressured to do so by activists, legislators and regulators. Many expect to get rich via taxpayer-subsidized “renewable” energy projects.</div><div>
</div><div>Nearly all hope to “greenwash” their reputations, by claiming they’ll “make the world a better place,” by reducing fossil fuel emissions, and thus planetary temperatures and extreme weather events.</div><div>
</div><div>They recently got a boost from the US House of Representatives. It voted 215-214 party-line to pass a bill supporting Securities and Exchange Commission plans to impose new ESG rules requiring publicly traded companies to disclose “climate risks” caused by oil, gas and coal production and use. Some think ESG climate claims and misconduct could receive greater SEC scrutiny, though that seems unlikely.</div><div>
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</div><div>Woke organizations need to wake up to climate, ESG and renewable energy realities.</div><div>
</div><div>The ever-more-hysterical climate and weather claims have been roundly debunked by Dr. Roy Spencer, Gregory Wrightstone, Marc Morano, Steven Koonin and others. But what’s truly outrageous about ESG is the way it studiously ignores the massive, widespread damage inflicted by pseudo-renewable energy.</div><div>
</div><div>Wind and sunlight certainly are clean, renewable and sustainable. But harnessing their highly dispersed, unpredictable, weather-dependent energy to meet humanity’s huge and growing energy needs absolutely is not.That requires lands and raw materials that are anything but renewable– using fuels and processes that are absolutely not clean, green, ecological or sustainable. Because they fail to recognize this, ESG programs are dishonest, even fraudulent – and must be reformed or scrapped.</div><div>
</div><div>Wind, solar and battery land and raw material requirements are astronomical. Onshore wind turbines require nine times more metals and minerals per megawatt than a modern combined-cycle gas power plant. One onshore 3-MW turbine foundation needs 600 cubic yards (1,500 tons) of concrete, plus rebar.</div><div>
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</div><div>Offshore wind requires 14 times more materials per MW. Just the 2,100 850-foot-tall offshore turbines (30,000 megawatts) that President Biden wants to install by 2030 would require110,000 tons of copper, plus millions of tons of steel, aluminum, fiberglass, cobalt, rare earth metals and other materials.</div><div>
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</div><div>At an average of 0.44% copper in ore deposits worldwide, the copper alone would require mining and processing25 million tons of ore, after removing 40 million tons of overburden to reach the ore bodies!</div><div>
</div><div>Add in materials for solar panels, more onshore and offshore wind turbines, backup battery systems, electric vehicles, transmission lines, and all-electric home heating and cooking systems – to run the entire USA, Europe and world – and the “green energy transformation” would require hundreds of billions of tons of metals, minerals and plastics, trillions of tons of ores, trillions of tons of overburden, and thousands of mines, processing plants and factories. Nearly all these operations employ fossil fuels.</div><div>
</div><div>America’s laws and attitudes make mining in the United States nearly impossible, even to support ESG-certified “green” energy facilities. That means most mining and processing will be done in Africa, Asia and Latin America, increasingly by Chinese companies. The manufacturing is done increasingly in China, which is why that country is building more coal-fired power plants every month.</div><div>
</div><div>Pseudo-clean-energy activities utilize hazardous chemicals and release toxic pollutants. They require vast volumes of water, often in the world’s most water-deprived regions. They cause acid mine drainage, create mountains of waste rock, and often result in vast “lakes” of toxic chemicals from refining the ores. Most are conducted under almost nonexistent pollution control, mined-land reclamation, endangered species, workplace safety, child and slave labor, and fair wage rules.</div><div>
</div><div>Cobalt mining already involves 40,000 African children, as young as four! Many Chinese solar panels are made with Uighur forced labor. ESG “green” aspirations would multiply this slavery many times over.</div><div>
</div><div>These travesties occur overseas – out of sight and out of mind – letting ESG activists and profiteers make incessant false claims that fossil fuel replacement energy is clean and virtuous. But when wind, solar and battery facilities are installed, adverse consequences will reverberate across the United States.</div><div>
</div><div>Hundreds of millions of acres of scenic, wildlife habitat and coastal areas would be impacted; millions of birds, bats, tortoises and other wildlife displaced, maimed and killed. And when their short productive lives are finished, billions of turbine blades, solar panels and batteries will be sent to gigantic landfills, because they cannot be recycled; their toxic metals and chemicals could leach out into soils, streams and groundwater. The same will happen in Europe, Canada, Australia and elsewhere.</div><div>
</div><div>Even on windy days, Mr. Biden’s 2,100 monstrous offshore turbines won’t meet New York State peak summertime electricity needs. Meeting just US coastal city needs would require tens of thousands of turbines. Dredge-and-fill operations associated with installing them would smother mollusks and other benthic species. Vibration noises would harm whale and porpoise navigation and communication. Their mere presence would create major safety issues for aircraft and fishing, naval and commercial vessels.</div><div>
</div><div>A single industrial solar facility near Fredericksburg, Virginia required clearcutting thousands of acres of forest habitat. Solar installations proposed for the American Southwest would blanket millions of acres of desert habitats. Dominion Energy is planning solar facilities on Virginia acreage totaling one-fourth of Delaware. Wind and solar operations would threaten or eradicate dozens of bird and other species that environmentalists have utilized for decades to stop drilling, fracking and pipeline projects.</div><div>
</div><div>Connecting far-flung wind, solar and battery installations to industrial centers and urban areas would require thousands of miles of new transmission lines – and still more steel, copper and concrete. Battery fires have already destroyed electric vehicles and homes. Imagine huge warehouses filled with thousands of battery modules erupting into enormous, uncontrollable conflagrations.</div><div>
</div><div>Biodiesel projects have already destroyed important orangutan habitats, and thousands of acres of US hardwood forests have been turned into wood pellets for Britain’s Drax Power Plant.</div><div>
</div><div>Threatened, endangered, migratory and marine species must be protected –wherever mining, processing and manufacturing take place, and wherever “renewable” energy installations are contemplated. Human health impacts from infrasound and light flicker must guide decisions on how close to homes and businesses wind turbines may be installed.</div><div>
</div><div>Reformed ESG rules – call them Environment and Human Rights (EHR) principles – must require that all these issues are addressed for every wind, solar, battery, transmission and biofuel proposal.</div><div>
</div><div>People must know in advance how many turbines, panels, batteries and power lines are contemplated; how many tons of metals, minerals, concrete and plastics they will require; where those materials will come from; under what environmental, pollution, safety, wage and child labor standards. Companies and government agencies must certify that supply chains are free from child or slave labor.</div><div>
</div><div>Project-specific, comprehensive and cumulative US and global environmental studies must be conducted before any projects are approved, and must include regular, independent reviews of bird, bat, reptile, whale, porpoise and other wildlife displacements, injuries and deaths. Project studies must fully assess all environmental, human health, human rights and other impacts worldwide, and must not be fast-tracked.</div><div>
</div><div>These reality-based EHR principles will help ensure that any “green future” is founded on ethical standards that address all human and ecological consequences, and actually do make the world a better place. They can also help guide SEC investigations and prosecutions for ESG misconduct and fraud – and help spur much-needed mining in the United States, to reduce our reliance on China, Russia, Taliban Afghanistan and other adversarial countries for critical and strategic minerals.</div><div>
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</div></div><div></div>=helga Zepp-LaRouche, Jeffrey Steinberg, Paul GallagherExecutive Intelligence Review, 2015 - Science - 67 pages0 Reviews Exactly 70 years after the end of the Nazi dictatorship, preparations are underway--largely unnoticed or misinterpreted by unsuspecting contemporaries--for the establishment of a fascist world government which would exceed Hitler's most audacious dreams. In place of the discredited doctrine of eugenics, which provided the pretense then for the elimination of so-called “inferior races,” today it is the swindle of alleged anthropogenic climate change which supplies the argumentation to establish a global eco-dictatorship whose results, and whose declared intention is to eliminate six billion human beings--if it is not stopped. --from the Introduction by Helga Zepp-LaRouche Report Contents: INTRODUCTIONDefend Mankind from the Satanic Climate-Change Swindle  by Helga Zepp-LaRouche I. DEPOPULATION PLOT: BRITISH SATANISTS CAPTURE THE VATICANHow the British Turned Genocide and Race Science 'Green'  by Jeffrey SteinbergBritish Crown's Depopulation Pope: CBE Hans Joachim SchellnhuberThe Encyclical from Hell  by Paul GallagherPrince Philip: Founding Father of the Environmentalist Movement  by Alicia CerretaniInterview with Paul Driessen: Develop the Ultimate Resource--The Mind II. THE TRUE SCIENCE OF CLIMATETemperature Doesn't Follow CO2 As Alarmists Claim  by Benjamin DenistonWhat Causes Climate Change? The Sun, the Solar System, and the Galaxy  by Benjamin Deniston'Methods' of Climate Alarmists  by Benjamin Deniston III. REJECT 'DECARBONIZATION' FRAUDIncreasing Energy Flux-Density: The Only Competent Energy Policy  by Benjamin DenistonGermany: Case Study in the Failure of Green Energy  by Alicia Cerretani, Benjamin DenistonThe Facts on Fusion  by Liona Fan-Chiang, Benjamin DenistonWall Street and London Made a 'Carbon Copy' of the Subprime Swindle  by Paul GallagherU.S. 'Green Disease' Spread After Kennedys and King Were Eliminated  by Marcia Merry Bakersea level vs land sink groundwater 2016 (recently fla?)<a href="https://www.cfact.org/2016/12/10/sea-level-rise-or-land-subsidence/">https://www.cfact.org/2016/12/10/sea-level-rise-or-land-subsidence/</a>hunter kos
<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/fill-the-swamp-team-trump-taps-an-infamous-oil-funded-climate-denier-for-noaa-role">https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/fill-the-swamp-team-trump-taps-an-infamous-oil-funded-climate-denier-for-noaa-role</a>although the election is almost upon us, Team Trump continues to fill the swamp to whatever new high-water mark they can possibly manage, putting the Absolute Least Competent People in charge of every government agency. It continues with the appointment of David Legates to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), where he will act as “deputy assistant secretary of commerce for observation and prediction.”Have you heard of David Legates? You might have. He’s a notorious climate change denier. And now he’s evidently being given a key role in “observation and prediction.” Or in other words, a perfect perch from which to do to government climate science what Trump’s team is <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/14/1977347/-Embattled-HHS-official-claims-life-is-in-danger-CDC-has-resistance-unit-in-off-the-rails-video" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">furiously doing</a> to the nation’s <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/14/1977169/-Trump-appointees-delayed-altered-CDC-reports-claimed-children-couldn-t-spread-pandemic" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">pandemic science</a>: deny that the bad things are happening while claiming that scientific evidence to the contrary is a dangerous plot against Dear Leader and Dear Leader’s rich, dumb friends.There is literally nothing “conservative” rule cannot turn into a national disaster. And there doesn’t seem to be a single thing Trump’s Republican allies are content to not turn into a national disaster.<a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/09/12/912301325/longtime-climate-science-denier-hired-at-noaa?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">NPR speculates that Legates’ new position</a> “suggests he reports directly” to acting NOAA head Neil Jacobs, putting him in a powerful position to sabotage whatever reports the agency’s climate scientists produce. NPR also reports that neither NOAA or Legates was willing to so much as comment on why he was hired or what he will be doing, which is always a near-certain sign that crookedness is afoot. If a government agency is going out of its way to hide what a new hire will be doing, and it’s not the CIA doing the hiring, you can bet it’s because nobody involved thinks the details will make them look good.as for Legates’ qualifications, they are negative in nature. He is explicitly anti-qualified. Legates has been a climate crank for years, casting doubt on scientific findings with his own research funded by the oil industry and Koch Industries or, less ambitiously, simply by sniping from the sidelines. He is a <a title="" href="https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/david-legates" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer">Heartland Institute associate</a> whose latest writing for the group was a <a title="" href="https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/fauci-birx-climate-models" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer">scoffing Paul Driessen-cowritten attack</a> on expert predictions that 100,000 Americans could die in the current pandemic—one that unironically parroted the “cure is worse than the disease” condemnation of shutdown orders, which smoothly segued into the claim that if pandemic experts were giving such outrageous predictions, then What If all of climate science was also similarly false and inflated.Yeah. Whoops. Funny how that worked out.Look, fuckers. If you got the pandemic numbers wrong by a factor of All Of Them a mere few months back, you don’t get to feign science-knowing on anything else. Sit your fraudulent asses down, Team Heartland. [Author’s note: It shall now be considered every American’s patriotic duty to use swear words when referencing any of the conservative charlatans whose “cure is worse than the disease” bullshit killed 200,000 Americans and counting. If you’re not calling them crooked fake-ass hoax-spewing shit-for-brains oilfuckers, I’m just saying you might not love America as much as you say you do.]So that is presumably what we can expect from Legates in his new Trump-enabling role: ostentatiously written but bullshit-heavy feints against government scientists while ignoring his own incompetent death-producing wrongness from oh, say, Last Damn April. It is the climate denier schtick. It is the Heartland schtick on absolutely everything, all the time, and never varies in the slightest.He and his Heartlandians thought predictions of 100,000 deaths were just crazy talk, in a nationwide pandemic, but don’t you worry: They’re even more paycheck-collectingly sure the climate change that we are currently seeing is a similar hoax, and doing similar unnecessary damage to the Great American Business Model of We Have Money, So You All Can Fuck Off. (Hilariously, Legates’ Heartland biography mentions that he was presented with the “Courage in Defense of Science Award,”without mentioning that the award is, and this is not a joke, issued by the Heartland Institute itself. The group is self-parodying.)Anyhoo, if you’re looking for a more lengthy description of just how brazenly pigheaded Team Trump’s new “observation and prediction” swamp-creature is, when it comes to pooh-poohing the rest of science while claiming he alone has the Correct Answers, you can <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-legates" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">go elsewhere for the details</a>. Even as some of the most notorious climate deniers have been forced to alter their stances, given the evidence, to recognize climate change as happening and as a product of human-caused atmospheric changes, Legates has through the years continued to claim that no evidence of human-based change exists at all.This is less scientific courageousness than apparent ideological commitment. Indeed, his claims tip precariously on the conspiracy-mongering side of things, with pronouncements that carbon dioxide has become “that molecule by which [governments] can take control of our lives, of your efforts, and everything that goes on.” (How … Gohmertian?)And in his Heartland role, he has certainly been willing to praise the “bold” Donald Trump—a place every one of these dishonest fake-conservative talking point-dispensing charlatans naturally ends up, after selling their soul to all comers for a decade or two.An aside: It’s uncanny how every die-hard conservative hack has fallen into line behind Trump with no apparent effort, in their eagerness to wage war on the government no matter what methods are used or who the commanding general is. It’s uncanny how every conservative “science” guy slips into the same exact talking points as all the others, to the point where their speeches and claims are indistinguishable, from person to person and year to year. While, of course, claiming that they are the true free-thinkers of the world.Whatever. Whether the Heartland crew in particular were initially drawn in by Trump’s devotion to tax fraud, racism, and rape or merely willing to overlook those flaws to embrace Trump’s “bold” stance of having whatever policy some random check-cashing hack appearing on the Sean Hannity show tells him to have isn’t known, so we are free to guess. Given the massive quantities of Actual Damn Crime among every category of Trump supporter from “government appointee” to “boat owner,” [guo?] though, we’re probably still underestimating just how closely Trump’s heart and motives resonate with conservatism’s most devoted adherents.What we do know is that the conservatives surrounding Trump are now making an all-out effort to destroy as much of the nation’s government and expertise as they can manage, before they are each pried back out of the buildings again. The damage will last, at this point, literally forever.=ref<a href="https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/fauci-birx-climate-models">https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/fauci-birx-climate-models</a>
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AUCI-BIRX CLIMATE MODELS?APRIL 13, 2020By Paul Driessen, David LegatesHonest, evidence-based climate models could avoid trillions of dollars in policy blunders.
President Trump and his Coronavirus Task Force presented some frightening numbers during their March 31 White House briefing. Based on now 2-week-old data and models, as many as 100,000 Americans at the models’ low end, to 2.2 million at their high end, could die from the fast-spreading virus, they said.
However, the President, Vice President Pence, and Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx hastened to add, those high-end numbers are based on computer models. And they are “unlikely” if Americans keep doing what they are doing now to contain, mitigate and treat the virus. Although that worst-case scenario “is possible,” it is “unlikely if we do the kinds of things that we’re essentially outlining right now.”
On March 31, Dr. Fauci said, the computer models were saying that, even with full mitigation, it is “likely” that America could still suffer at least 100,000 deaths. But he then added a very important point:
“The question is, are the models really telling us what’s going on? When someone creates a model, they put in various assumptions. And the models are only as good and as accurate as the assumptions you put into them. As we get more data, as the weeks go by, that might change. We feed the data back into the models and relook at the models.” The data can change the assumptions – and thus the models’ forecasts.
“If we have more data like the NY-NJ metro area, the numbers could go up,” Dr. Birx added. But if the numbers coming in are more like Washington or California, which reacted early and kept their infection and death rates down – then the models would likely show lower numbers. “We’re trying to prevent that logarithmic increase in New Orleans and Detroit and Chicago – trying to make sure those cities work more like California than like the New York metro area.” That seems to be happening, for the most part.
If death rates from corona are misattributed or inflated, if other model assumptions should now change, if azithromycin, hydroxychloroquine and other treatments, and people’s immunities are reducing infections – then business shutdowns and stay-home orders could (and should) end earlier, and we can go back to work and life, rebuild America’s and the world’s economies ... and avoid different disasters, like these:
Millions of businesses that never reopen. Tens of millions of workers with no paychecks. Tens of trillions of dollars vanished from our economy. Millions of families with lost homes and savings. Millions of cases of depression, stroke, heart attack, domestic violence, suicide, murder-suicide, and early death due to depression, obesity and alcoholism, due to unemployment, foreclosure and destroyed dreams.
In other words, numerous deaths because of actions taken to prevent infections and deaths from COVID.
It is vital that they recheck the models and assumptions – and distinguish between COVID-19 deaths actually due to the virus... and not just associated with or compounded by it, but primarily due to age, obesity, pneumonia or other issues. We can’t afford a cure that’s worse than the disease – or a prolonged and deadly national economic shutdown that could have been shortened by updated and corrected models.
Now just imagine: What if we could have that same honest, science-based approach to climate models?
What if the White House, EPA, Congress, UN, EU and IPCC acknowledged that climate models are only as good and as accurate as the assumptions built into them? What if – as the months and years went by and we got more real-world temperature, sea level and extreme weather data – we used that information to honestly refine the models? Would the assumptions and therefore the forecasts change dramatically?
What if we use real science to help us understand Earth’s changing climate and weather? And base energy and other policies on real science that honestly examines manmade and natural influences on climate?
Many climate modelers claim we face existential manmade climate cataclysms caused by our use of fossil fuels. They use models to justify calls to banish fossil fuels that provide 80% of US and global energy; close down countless industries, companies and jobs; totally upend our economy; give trillions of dollars in subsidies to fossil fuel replacement companies; and drastically curtail our travel and lifestyles.
Shouldn’t we demand that these models be verified against real-world evidence? Natural forces have caused climate changes and extreme weather events throughout history. What proof is there that what we see today is due to fossil fuel emissions, and not to those same natural forces? We certainly don’t want energy “solutions” that don’t work and are far worse than the supposed manmade climate and weather ‘virus.’
And we have the climate data. We’ve got years of data. The data show the models don’t match reality.
Model-predicted temperatures are more than 0.5 degrees F above actual satellite-measured average global temperatures – and “highest ever” records are mere hundredths of a degree above previous records from 50 to 80 years ago. Actual hurricane, tornado, sea level, flood, drought, and other historic records show no unprecedented trends or changes, no looming crisis, no evidence that humans have replaced the powerful natural forces that have always driven climate and weather in the real world outside the modelers’ labs.
Real science – and real scientists – seek to understand natural phenomena and processes. They pose hypotheses that they think best explain what they have witnessed, then test them against actual evidence, observations and data. If the hypotheses (and predictions based on them) are borne out by their subsequent observations or findings, the hypotheses become theories, rules or laws of nature – at least until someone finds new evidence that pokes holes in their assessments, or devises better explanations.
Real scientists often employ computers to analyze data more quickly and accurately, depict or model complex natural systems, or forecast future events or conditions. But they test their models against real-world evidence. If the models, observations and predictions don’t match up, real scientists modify or discard the models, and the hypotheses behind them. They engage in robust discussion and debate.
Real scientists don’t let models or hypotheses become substitutes for real-world data, evidence and observations. They don’t alter or “homogenize” raw or historic data to make it look like the models actually work. They don’t tweak their models after comparing predictions to actual subsequent observations, to make it look like the models “got it right.” They don’t “lose” or hide data and computer codes, restrict peer review to closed circles of like-minded colleagues who protect one another’s reputations and funding, claim “the debate is over,” or try to silence anyone who asks inconvenient questions or criticizes their claims or models. Climate modelers have done all of this – and more.
Put bluntly, what climate modelers are essentially saying is this: We don’t need data; we have models. If real world observations don’t conform to our computer model predictions, the real world must be wrong.
Climate models have always overstated the warming. But even though modelers have admitted that their models are “tuned” – revised after the fact to make it look like they predicted temperatures accurately – the modelers have made no attempt to change the climate sensitivity to match reality. Why not? 
They know disaster scenarios sell. Disaster forecasts keep them employed, swimming in research money – and empowered to tell legislators and regulators that humanity must we take immediate, draconian action to eliminate all fossil fuel use – the economic, human and environmental consequences be damned. And they probably will never admit their mistakes or duplicity, much less be held accountable.
“Wash your hands! You could save millions of lives!”  has far more impact than “You could save your own life, your kids’ lives, dozens of lives.” When it comes to climate change, you’re saving the planet.
With Mann-made climate change, we are always shown the worst-case scenario: RCP 8.5, the “business-as-usual” ... ten times more coal use in 2100 than now ... “total disaster.” Alarmist climatologists know their scenario has maybe a 0.1% likelihood, and assumes no new energy technologies over the next 80 years. But energy technologies have evolved incredibly over the last 80 years – since 1940, the onset of World War II! Who could possibly think technologies won’t change at least as much going forward?
Disaster scenarios are promoted because most people don’t know any better – and voters and citizens won’t accept extreme measures and sacrifices unless they are presented with extreme disaster scenarios.
The Fauci-Birx team is trying to do science-based modeling for the ChiCom-WHO coronavirus – feeding updated data into their models. Forecasts for infections and deaths are down significantly. Thankfully.
So now we must demand honest, factual, evidence-based climate model as well. No more alarmists and charlatans setting climate and energy policy. Our economy, livelihoods, lives and liberties are too vital.
The fact is, models are also only as good as the number of variables they can handle, and the data quality for every variable. There is no way models can possibly factor in the hundreds of infection, treatment, death and other variables associated with COVID – and Earth’s climate is vastly more complex. Simply put, models play a role but should never be a primary driving force in setting important public policies.<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1038">http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1038</a>cornwall obit for rothbard, explains fade?srcwatch
<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Global-Comm Partners was a public relations firm specialising in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Greenwash" title="Greenwash" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Greenwash</a> for think-tanks and corporations. 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<table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" class="content-newblue" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 10px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1;">Paul K. Driessen, JD Biography</h1></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="content-newblue" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;">Title:</td><td class="content-newblue" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;">Senior Fellow with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="content-newblue" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;">Position:</td><td class="content-newblue" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;">Con to the question "Can Alternative Energy Effectively Replace Fossil Fuels?"</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="content-newblue" valign="top" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;">Reasoning:</td><td class="content-newblue" align="justify" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div class="nomarginbottom" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Drilling is no silver bullet. But it is vital. It won’t generate overnight production. But just announcing that America is finally hunting oil again would send a powerful signal to energy markets… and to speculators – many of whom are betting that continued US drilling restrictions will further exacerbate the global demand-supply imbalance, and send 'futures' prices even higher...  One of our best prospects is Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which geologists say contains billions of barrels of recoverable oil...  Drilling in ANWR would get new oil flowing in 5-10 years, depending on how many lawsuits environmentalists file. That’s far faster than benefits would flow from supposed alternatives: devoting millions more acres of cropland to corn or cellulosic ethanol, converting our vehicle fleet to hybrid and flex-fuel cars, building dozens of new nuclear power plants, and blanketing thousands of square miles with wind turbines and solar panels. These alternatives would take decades to implement, and all face political, legal, technological, economic and environmental hurdles..."</div>"Drill Here. Drill Now. Drill ANWR.," Grass Roots Institute of Hawaii website, July 2, 2008</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="content-newblue" valign="top" nowrap="" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://alternativeenergy.procon.org/credibility-ranking.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Theoretical Expertise Ranking:</a></td><td class="content-newblue" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="fa fa-star pcstar" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-text-stroke: 1px rgb(220, 176, 42); display: inline-block; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span class="fa fa-star pcstar" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-text-stroke: 1px rgb(220, 176, 42); display: inline-block; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span class="fa fa-star pcstar" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-text-stroke: 1px rgb(220, 176, 42); display: inline-block; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"> Experts Individuals with PhDs, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to alternative energy or fossil fuel issues. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to alternative energy or fossil fuel issues.</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="content-newblue" valign="top" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;">Involvement and Affiliations:</td><td class="content-newblue" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">Senior Fellow, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">Senior Fellow, Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE) </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">Senior Policy Advisor, Congress of Racial Equality </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">Senior Fellow, Atlas Economic Research Foundation </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">Senior Fellow, Grassroot Institute of Hawaii (GRIH) </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">Senior Fellow, Frontiers of Freedom Institute </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">Director, Economic Human Rights Project, CDFE & Congress of Racial Equality </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">Principal, Global-Comm Partners </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">Editor, Public Relations Society of Americas, National Capital Chapter Newsletter </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">Former Staff, US Department of the Interior </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">Former Staff, US Senate </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">Former Member, Sierra Club </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">Former Member, Zero Population Growth</li></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="content-newblue" valign="top" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;">Education:</td><td class="content-newblue" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">Accreditation, Public Relations, Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">JD, University of Denver College of Law </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">BA, Geology and Field Ecology, Lawrence University</li></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="content-newblue" valign="top" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;">Contact Info:</td><td class="content-newblue" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;">Phone: 202-429-2737 Fax: None found Email: <a href="mailto:paul@cdfe.org" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">paul@cdfe.org</a> Website: <a href="http://www.cdfe.org/about-us/staff-and-advisors/" target="bank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Staff Profile at CDFE</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="content-newblue" valign="top" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;">Select Publications:</td><td class="content-newblue" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">"New EPA Rules Will Raise Electricity Rates," CFACT website, Dec. 1, 2008</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">"Climate Change Taxes Create 'Fuel-Poverty' in UK," CFACT website, Nov. 19, 2008</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">"Green-Collar Jobs, or Con Jobs?: US Should Proceed Cautiously in Developing Green Economy," CFACT website, Oct. 15, 2008</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">"Blowing in the Wind: Wind Energy Mandates Make Good Ad Copy but Bad Policy," CFACT website, Aug. 12, 2008</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">"Drill Here. Drill Now. Drill ANWR," GRIH website, July 2, 2008</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">"The 'Coal is Filthy' Ad-Scam," GRIH website, May 31, 2007</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">"Global Warming Ethics, Pork and Profits," GRIH website, Feb. 7, 2007</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">"Climate McCarthyism and Eco-Inquisitions: Censoring News and Views to Advance Ideologies and Legislation," GRIH website, Dec. 15, 2006</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">"Nuclear to the Rescue," GRIH website, Aug. 29, 2006</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;">Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, 2003</li></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="content-newblue" valign="top" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;">Other:</td><td class="content-newblue" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;">None found</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="content-newblue" valign="top" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;">Quoted in:</td><td class="content-newblue" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 4px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div class="references" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 16px;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left; list-style-type: none;">1. <a href="https://alternativeenergy.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=001350#answer-id-008301" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Should the US Immediately Phase out Fossil Fuels?</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table>breakthru/ djt
omfg note black death BS<div class="headline-container" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 10px;"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;">Rick Perry to Climate Activists: Fossil Fuels Save Lives</h1></div><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px;"><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2489751440" data-headline="Rick Perry to Climate Activists: Fossil Fuels Save Lives" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description">Protestors showed up to the National Petroleum Council's meeting in Washington, DC on Monday to <a href="https://twitter.com/ValerieVolco/status/912394058592669696" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">call out</a>Secs. <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/rick-perry" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Rick Perry</a> and <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/ryan-zinke" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Ryan Zinke</a> for their <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/energy-dept-bans-climate-language-2336490869.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">controversial stances</a> on <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">climate change</a>.After an activist expressed, "climate change is killing people," the Secretary of Energy remarked in the conference room full of oil industry representatives and executives that <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/fossil-fuels" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">fossil fuels</a> save lives."This industry is leading the world in affecting the climate and affecting the climate in a positive way," Perry said, according to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-25/perry-tells-climate-hecklers-that-fossil-fuels-save-lives?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Bloomberg</a>. "I'm proud to be a part of this industry. You want to talk about saving lives, that's what we are doing."The former Texas governor praised Texas' efforts in reducing carbon dioxide and other pollution and that U.S. liquefied natural gas, which produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions compared to coal, is replacing dirty coal plants.He also insisted that energy access saves lives in Africa, an industry talking point, Bloomberg noted."It upsets me when some guy stands up and says, 'What are you going to do, you're killing people,'" Perry said to applause. "No sir. You want to kill people, you take energy away from them and you see how those north African countries will be treated."Some of the fossil fuel industry's biggest names, including <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/exxon" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Exxon Mobil</a> and <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/shell" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Shell</a>, were present at the annual meeting.According to Bloomberg, the protestors were removed from the hotel conference room after their remarks.The <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Trump</a> administration's <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/white-house-green-rebrand-2488285108.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">environmental PR problem</a> has been under heavy scrutiny in the wake of devastating Atlantic <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/hurricanes" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">hurricanes</a> that destroyed parts of Texas, Florida and the Caribbean.Earlier this month, Perry dismissed the link between climate change and its effect on <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/extreme-weather" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">extreme weather</a> after Hurricane Harvey wrecked Houston."We can line up scientists on both sides of this," he told <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rick-perry-says-climate-change-debate-is-secondary-amid-harvey-destruction/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">CBS News</a>, but "this is not the time to be having this conversation."Rather, Perry said, the focus should be on helping <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/hurricane-harvey" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Hurricane Harvey</a> victims."Everyone wants to run to the climate change debate, but that is very secondary at this particular time," he said.This week happens to be Washington's inaugural " <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NationalCleanEnergyWeek/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">National Clean Energy Week</a>," an event <a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/National-Clean-Energy-Week-Kicks-Off-With-Veritable-Who-s-Who-of-the-Clean-Energy-World-1002570971" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">touted</a> to bring together "high-profile elected leaders and national clean energy organizations for substantive discussions around commonsense solutions that directly address America's need for abundant, reliable forms of energy."Perry is <a href="https://twitter.com/SecretaryPerry/status/912654272185208832" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">one of the featured speakers</a> at Tuesday's star event, the Symposium & Demonstration Fair on Capitol Hill.But environmental organizations <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/cleanenergyweek-dirtyenergyweek-lobbyists-2489431300.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">criticized</a> the weeklong event as an "ultimate corporate greenwashing experience."In a <a href="http://www.pfpi.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Letter-to-Congress_dirty-energy-week_9.25.17.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">letter</a> addressed to members of Congress, the groups called out some of the sponsors of National Clean Energy Week as "some of the dirtiest actors in the energy industry," such as the American Gas Association, American Petroleum Institute, Biomass Power Association, Energy Recovery Institute (garbage incineration), and the Nuclear Energy Institute.The letter was signed by organizations including <a href="https://350.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">350.org</a>, <a href="https://foe.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Friends of the Earth</a> and <a href="http://priceofoil.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Oil Change International</a>."The climate crisis is real, and these clean energy claims are phony," said Dr. Mary Booth, director of the <a href="http://www.pfpi.net/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Partnership for Policy Integrity</a>, a nonprofit that applies science to inform clean energy policy. "We're writing Congress to remind it that clean energy doesn't come out of a smokestack. Congress must keep its hands off Americans' wallets when these super-polluters come asking for clean energy subsidies."</div></div>=off bs epa sab
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Paul Driessen is president of Global-Comm Partners, a sole proprietorship that conducts research,

prepares reports and articles, and gives interviews and speeches on scientific ethics and integrity,

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corporate social responsibility, climate change, renewable and fossil fuel energy, land use,

sustainability, malnutrition, biotechnology, pesticides, disease control, economic development and

human rights. He has been active in these areas since 1976, and is the author of four books, dozens of

reports and hundreds of articles on these topics. He has a BA in geology, biology and ecology, and a

JD emphasizing environment and natural resources law. Following a year with state government,

three years with an energy trade association, and eight years with the U.S. Senate and U.S.

Department of the Interior, since 2005 he has served as a policy analyst and advisor on these issues

for the Committee for A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and Congress of Racial Equality

(CORE). He held leadership roles with the Public Relations Society of America but has not served

previously on an EPA or other government advisory board.<a href="http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2017/01/paul-driessen-and-cfact-promote-climate.html">http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2017/01/paul-driessen-and-cfact-promote-climate.html</a>
Anthony Watts loves a good conspiracy theory, particularly the one about climate science being a hoax. He would probably claim that he doesn't "believe in" conspiracy theories, yet he constantly posts them on his blog. Today it was Paul Driessen, who's <a href="https://archive.is/DPfR7#selection-745.0-745.84" target="blank" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; transition: all 0.5s linear; text-decoration-line: none;">employed by CFACT</a> to lobby against environmental protection, in one of his more blatant articles (archived <a href="https://archive.is/DPfR7" target="blank" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; transition: all 0.5s linear; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>). Usually he is moaning about clean air and water, wishing the USA would resurrect the smog and dirty water of decades past. Paul <a href="https://archive.is/DPfR7#selection-669.154-669.369" target="blank" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; transition: all 0.5s linear; text-decoration-line: none;">wrote</a> stuff like this today: <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="">The notion that manmade carbon dioxide now drives climate and weather – and we can predict climate and weather by looking only at plant-fertilizing CO2 and other “greenhouse gases” – is just as absurd now as before.</blockquote>The quotes are a giveaway, even if you knew nothing about the subject. Putting the words "greenhouse gases" in quotes shows that Paul is a greenhouse effect denier. He doesn't believe in physics and chemistry. <a name="more" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; transition: all 0.5s linear;"> He's also wrong - weather isn't predicted by looking only at atmospheric CO2. In fact, weather forecasts are made by models, initialised with current weather conditions. Similar to the models used by climate scientists who are studying long term changes in temperature, precipitation, ice cover, vegetation cover, ocean currents and all aspects of the earth system. As you know, one of the telltale techniques of a climate science denier is the logical fallacy. Paul's article is riddled with them. Spot the logical fallacies, the irrational, the alarmism, and lies in these quotes: </a><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px 2.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em;">As climate realists take the reins at EPA and other federal and state agencies, the Trump Administration should ensure that tax dollars are not squandered on more alarmist science that is employed to justify locking up more fossil fuels, expanding renewable energy and “carbon capture” schemes, reducing US living standards, and telling poor countries what living standards they will be “permitted” to have. (<a href="https://archive.is/DPfR7#selection-677.0-677.407" target="blank" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; transition: all 0.5s linear; text-decoration-line: none;">link</a>)</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em;">A “skeptic” scientist has warmed to the idea that a major Greenland ice shelf may be shrinking because of climate change, a front-page piece in the Post claimed. Perhaps so. But is it manmade warming? Does it portend planetary cataclysm, even as Greenland’s interior and Antarctica show record ice growth? Or are warm ocean currents weakening an ice shelf that is fragile because it rests on ocean water, not land? (<a href="https://archive.is/DPfR7#selection-657.0-665.223" target="blank" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; transition: all 0.5s linear; text-decoration-line: none;">link</a>)</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em;">Reliable forecasts, as far in advance as possible, would clearly benefit humanity. For that to happen, however, research must examine all natural and manmade factors, and not merely toe the pretend-consensus line that carbon dioxide now governs climate change. (<a href="https://archive.is/DPfR7#selection-681.0-681.260" target="blank" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; transition: all 0.5s linear; text-decoration-line: none;">link</a>)</li></ul>Paul followed up that last one by <a href="https://archive.is/DPfR7#selection-685.0-693.433" target="blank" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; transition: all 0.5s linear; text-decoration-line: none;">pretending</a> that climate scientists don't study all aspects of climate. He seemed to think that scientists don't study clouds, or oceans, or storms, or incoming solar radiation, or any of the other aspects that are in the scientific literature and have been covered in every <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports.shtml" target="blank" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; transition: all 0.5s linear; text-decoration-line: none;">IPCC report</a> to date. (Most WUWT readers assiduously avoid reading scientific journals and the thought of opening any of the <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports.shtml" target="blank" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; transition: all 0.5s linear; text-decoration-line: none;">IPCC reports</a> would make them ill.)
 Given how deniers have been comparing all recent temperatures with those in the 1998 El Nino, <a href="https://archive.is/DPfR7#selection-717.0-717.311" target="blank" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; transition: all 0.5s linear; text-decoration-line: none;">this para</a> is not only wrong, it's especially disingenuous: <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The desire to secure research funding from Obama grantor agencies also perpetuated a tendency to use El Niño warming spikes, and cherry-pick the end of cooling cycles as the starting point for trend lines that allegedly “prove” fossil fuels are causing “unprecedented” temperature spikes and planetary calamity.</blockquote>Paul has some hopes for the Trump administration. He <a href="https://archive.is/DPfR7#selection-725.0-725.261" target="blank" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; transition: all 0.5s linear; text-decoration-line: none;">wrote</a>: <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="">The Trump Administration and 115th Congress have a unique opportunity to change these dynamics, and ensure that future research generates useful information, improved understanding of Earth’s complex climate system, and forecasts that are increasingly accurate. </blockquote>One of the things he wants to do is to cut back on climate research. Like many conspiracy generating climate disinformers, Paul Driessen is pushing the message that if we don't know about it then it can't possibly happen. He <a href="https://archive.is/DPfR7#selection-737.2-737.206" target="blank" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; transition: all 0.5s linear; text-decoration-line: none;">wrote</a> that Trump should: <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="">Significantly reduce funding for climate research, the IPCC and EPA, and science in general. Funding should be more broadly based, not monopolistic, especially when the monopoly is inevitably politicized.</blockquote>The people who politicised climate science were the conservative extremists in the USA, who've now managed to take over the country. After calling for climate science funding to be reduced, Paul then <a href="https://archive.is/DPfR7#selection-741.0-741.104" target="blank" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; transition: all 0.5s linear; text-decoration-line: none;">tried to claim</a> that his anti-science rant  "is not an “attack on science.” It is a reaffirmation of what real science is supposed to be and do." Really? I guess if you're a WUWT authoritarian follower, you'll believe anything that fits your world view. <h4 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 24px 0px 0px; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(204, 102, 17); padding: 2px;">From the WUWT comments</h4> Of course Anthony Watts' fans lap it all up. They seem to prefer smog and non-potable water and droughts and floods and heat waves to a modernised energy sector. Just days before NASA, NOAA and the UK Hadley Centre will be discussing what is likely to be the hottest year on record following a string of record hot years, Phillip Bratby's dumb thought was: <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://archive.is/DPfR7#selection-1887.0-1913.168" target="blank" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; transition: all 0.5s linear; text-decoration-line: none;">January 9, 2017 at 1:36 am</a>
“man-made global warming” is dead, deceased, popped its clogs, passed on, expired, ceased to be, gone to meet its maker, joined the choir invisible. It is no more. RIP.</blockquote> Toneb criticised the silly cartoon Anthony put at the <a href="https://archive.is/DPfR7#selection-575.0-575.97" target="blank" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; transition: all 0.5s linear; text-decoration-line: none;">top of the article</a>:</div><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</div>front rentatoms:<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Mooney MoJo 2005:<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">“ In 1968, Roy Innis seized control of CORE and moved the group to the far right. Innis has been accused by founder James Farmer and other black leaders of renting out CORE’s historic reputation to corporations like <span style="font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Monsanto and ExxonMobil.<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> (CORE even mounted a counterprotest to environmentalists picketing an <span style="font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ExxonMobil shareholders’ <span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">meeting.) “We all want to protect our planet,” says CORE spokesman (and Roy’s son) Niger Innis. “But we must stop trying to protect it from minor or illusory threats—and doing it on the backs, and the graves, of the world’s most powerless and impoverished people.” Niger Innis has also said that the terms “eco-imperialism” and “eco-slaughter” should be household words.[//<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> John Graham; co-wrote with Dreissen and Hannity<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">?]
<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Helping CORE form these talking points is its <span style="font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">senior policy adviser, Paul Driessen, <span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, who also works with several other ExxonMobil-funded groups. At a 2004 ExxonMobil shareholders’ meeting, Driessen referred to CORE as “one of America’s oldest and most respected civil rights organizations” and called for greater funding for the group.” end
<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">1996 NYT praises … one of the leading voices of the small but growing number of black conservatives in the United States.” so parleys into:
[“in late 1999 the New York Times reported that a street protest against genetic engineering outside an FDA public hearing in Washington DC was disrupted by a group of African-Americans carrying placards such as "Biotech saves children's lives" and "Biotech equals jobs." The Times learned that Monsanto's PR company, Burson-Marsteller, had paid a Baptist Church from a poor neighborhood to bus in these "demonstrators" as part of a wider campaign "to get groups of church members, union workers and the elderly to speak in favor of genetically engineered foods."...<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Heartland ICCC 2008 and 2009:<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">sourcewatch: “Innis was listed as a speaker at the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change (2009) in a session title "Economics and Politics - The Morality of Energy Rationing".[5]
<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">At the skeptics conference, Innis said that "a lot of people are searching for the right thing to believe in and [have been] captured by a<span style="font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> corrupted ideology," a "green" religion<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">. However, he claimed the "green" religion puts the interests of Western environmentalists over the basic needs of people in the developing world. He added, "Coal and natural gas are the new civil rights battleground, because without these sources, 'we' cannot enjoy this great society." [6][[Green Dragon Xian agenda 21 tin foil hat lunacy; Cornwall Green Dragon 2011-13?]]
Innis co-authored a book titled, "Energy Keepers, Energy Killers: The New Civil Rights Battle," along with Alan Gottlieb [wise use eco-terror] , Sean Hannity and Paul Driessen.]...<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Domestic arm of the larger (or an extension of) <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant="font-variant" text-decoration="text-decoration" none="none" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">Driessen<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> Black Death BS, which combines a number of tropes/Memes:  1) only the Free Market can provide technological progress and prosperity with will empower aka trickle down to poor ppl of color
<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">2)<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant="font-variant" text-decoration="text-decoration" none="none" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color"> Statistical Murder bs created by John Graham:<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> right sucks at science/does not have fact on its side, so it falls back on economics, on which it can claim authority.  Thus we get millions of poor brown people dying because the extreme close minded green elite deprives them of DDT (or more lately the electrical power that will allow them to be entrepreneurs and pull themselves up by bootstraps).  Also GMO variant (which requires them to slap down Vandana Shiva, who exposes farmer suicides).
<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Alford’s spin (repeated by Innis and Harry Jackson?)  on this is that poor ppl of color, especially the elderly cannot pay for the increased cost of energy (which are always exaggerated in the paid-for reports).  He must of course downplay the EJ truth that ppl of color are made sick and killed by working in and living next to toxic waste, mercury and asthma, PCB’s.  These medical and other costs are “externalities” so literally do not count.  Presumably they also attack ACA which would provide health care to people affected.<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">
<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">[from inhofe2]:<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> <span style="font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Paul Driessen<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> <span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> <span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Aligned with Wise Use wackos like Arnold, and hacks Soon and Singer; but also with evil sellout <span style="font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">CORE<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">. Wise Use was in some ways Tea Party 1.0, cowboy <span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> <span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">division, fuelled by extractive resource corporations who want to get natural resources for free then not clean up the mess. What is new /Evil coopting of environmental justice: that is, the people who have birth defects in Kettleman City because of hazardous waste being trucked in, whose water is contaminated by landfills and fracking, etc etc. For a while there was a legitimate complaint <span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> <span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">that the environmental movement became too White and suburban, <span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> <span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">worried about beautiful alpine forests the way the first wave conservationists had been, or polar bears and pandas. These rifts are being healed, but the right takes its old notion of statistical murder, mixes it with the anti-Carson pro-DDT nonsense, then adds a dollop of anti-Commie Agenda 21 lunacy so Driessen ally <span style="font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Roy Innis <span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> <span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">claims the green movement is “killing black babies.” : murder by denying DDT. Roy tends to stay out of the spotlight since his ruse is easily and has been repeatedly exposed over the years which hurts his credibility thus usefulness thus profits. He runs a telemarketing boiler-room operation which basically uses threat of exposing an organization as racists (again, a spinoff/niche protection racket):<span style="font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> His son Niger <span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">is more attracted to the limelight <span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> <span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">and has largely inherited the franchise, and openly uses the terms “Eco-imperialism”, parroted from <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant="font-variant" text-decoration="text-decoration" none="none" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color">Driessen,<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> and even “eco-slaughter” ( ).<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Writes for TownHall.com<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">...<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant="font-variant" text-decoration="text-decoration" none="none" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">[“ In late 2005, evangelical leaders like Rick Warren joined a drive to back a major initiative to fight global warming, saying “millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors." To counter this historic shift in the evangelical community, a group called the “Interfaith Stewardship Alliance” (ISA) was launched to oppose action on carbon emissions and to deny the existence of climate change. One of the men guiding this group was Paul Driessen, a consultant for ExxonMobil, the mining industry, and for CFACT.”]<span style="font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Ron Arnold<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> connections<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The first edition of Nichol's book - Rules for Corporate Warriors - was published by Free Enterprise Press, a part of Ron Arnold's Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE).
<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Nichols joined the CDFE as a Senior Fellow in January 2005<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">...<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Nichols is on the advisory board of Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow[4]
<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Nichols and the CDFE's Paul Driessen wrote "Global warming: Science versus Spin," an essay for The Science and Environmental Policy Project, dated 13 July 2003.[3] }
<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Eco-Terror:In 2002, the Competitive Enterprise Institute co-sponsored a conference with the aggressive anti-green PR company Nichols-Dezenhall, which has since been renamed Dezenhall Resources after the retirement of one of its founders who spoke at the conference Nick Nichols.~ rico, std denier BS: <a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/the-hillary-treatment-for-climate-fraudsters/">http://www.eco-imperialism.com/the-hillary-treatment-for-climate-fraudsters/</a>ag 21 ny gore credit card<a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/new-yorks-sustainability-plan-aka-agenda-21/">http://www.eco-imperialism.com/new-yorks-sustainability-plan-aka-agenda-21/</a>
<strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 19.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/PDFs/Eco-Imperialism_Introduction-Niger_Innis.pdf" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" padding="padding" px="px" margin="margin" line-height="line-height" text-decoration="text-decoration" none="none">Introduction</a>– by Niger Innis, Congress of Racial Equality<strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 19.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Author’s Preface – Why I wrote this book1. <img id="Picture10" src="http://eco-imperialism.com/assets/images/adobe.gif" alt="" width="15" height="15" align="TOP" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" padding="padding" px="px" margin="margin" line-height="line-height" /><a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/PDFs/Corporate_Social_Responsibility-Chapter_Excerpts.pdf" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" padding="padding" px="px" margin="margin" line-height="line-height" text-decoration="text-decoration" none="none">Corporate Social Irresponsibility</a> – A good idea gone bad<img id="Picture17" src="http://eco-imperialism.com/assets/images/adobe.gif" alt="" width="15" height="15" align="TOP" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" /><div id="alttext-container" style="overflow: hidden; border: 1px solid silver; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1px; border-radius: inherit; width: 15px; height: 15px;"><img id="alttext-image" width="16" height="16" align="left" style="margin: 0px; float: left; display: inline;" /></div>2. <img id="Picture11" src="http://eco-imperialism.com/assets/images/adobe.gif" alt="" width="15" height="15" align="TOP" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; max-width: 100%;" /> <a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/PDFs/Roots_of_Eco-Imperialism-Chapter_Exceprts.pdf" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;">Roots of Eco-Imperialism</a> – How protecting nature became imperialistic3. <img id="Picture12" src="http://eco-imperialism.com/assets/images/adobe.gif" alt="" width="15" height="15" align="TOP" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; max-width: 100%;" /> <a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/PDFs/Cow_Dung_Forever-Chapter_Excerpts.pdf" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;">Cow Dung Forever</a> – Depriving poor people of electricity and safe water4. <img id="Picture13" src="http://eco-imperialism.com/assets/images/adobe.gif" alt="" width="15" height="15" align="TOP" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; max-width: 100%;" /> <a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/PDFs/Playing_Games_With_Starving_People-Chapter_Excerpts.pdf" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;">Playing Games with Starving People</a> – Malnutrition and biotechnology5. <img id="Picture14" src="http://eco-imperialism.com/assets/images/adobe.gif" alt="" width="15" height="15" align="TOP" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; max-width: 100%;" /> <a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/PDFs/Sustainable_Mosquitoes-Expendable_People-Chapter_Excerpts.pdf" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;">Sustainable Mosquitoes Expendable People</a> – malaria and DDT6. Sweatshops and Prostitutes – The real impact of anti-sweatshop movementsCHART – Radical Environmentalism’s Death Toll7. <img id="Picture16" src="http://eco-imperialism.com/assets/images/adobe.gif" alt="" width="15" height="15" align="TOP" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; max-width: 100%;" /> <a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/PDFs/Renewable_Energy_Mirages-_Chapter_Excerpts.pdf" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;">Renewable Energy Mirages</a> – Wind and solar aren’t ready for prime time8. Climate Change Riches – The truth about the global warming scare9. Greenwashing for Greenbacks – Saving the planet for PR, fame and profit10. Investor Fraud – “Socially responsible investor” fraud and eco-imperialism11.  End of Eco-Imperialism? Changing the terms of the debate12.  Corporate Social Responsibility Reborn – Hope for the future(all chapters are extensively footnoted)Bibliography – Suggestions for further studyIndex---phil stott<table border="0" cellpadding="8" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 19.2px; width: 705px; height: 39px; background-color: rgb(235, 235, 235);"><tbody style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;"><tr align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;"><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;"><h2 style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.2em; font-weight: normal;">Full-Page Reviews:</h2><a title="Review: Alan Caruba" href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/excerpts-reviews/book-reviews/review-alan-caruba/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;">Alan Caruba</a> | <a title="Review: Steven MIlloy" href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/excerpts-reviews/book-reviews/steven-milloy/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;">Steven Milloy</a> | <a title="Review: Don Newman" href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/excerpts-reviews/book-reviews/don-newman/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;">Don Newman</a> | <a title="Review: Jay Ambrose" href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/excerpts-reviews/book-reviews/jay-ambrose/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;">Jay Ambrose</a> | <a title="Review: Elizabeth Nickson" href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/excerpts-reviews/book-reviews/elizabeth-nickson/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;">Elizabeth Nickson</a> | <a title="Eco-Imperialism: Criticism" href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/excerpts-reviews/book-reviews/criticism/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;">All Criticism</a></td></tr></tbody></table>“The environmental movement I helped found has lost its objectivity, morality and humanity. The pain and suffering it is inflicting on families in developing countries must no longer be tolerated. This is the first book I’ve seen that tells the truth and lays it on the line. It’s a must-read for anyone who cares about people, progress and our planet.”– Patrick Moore, Greenpeace co-founder“Paul Driessen has given us an amazing tour de force. He explores one of today’s most perplexing problems: the environmentally sensitive rich demanding that the Third World’s poor forego feeding themselves, solving their health and energy problems, and taking their rightful place among the earth’s prosperous people. Eco-Imperialism provides terrific intellectual ammunition and is outstandingly written. Very gripping to read.”– Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Toward Tradition“Developing countries need to be free to make their own decisions about how to improve their people’s lives. Activists who’ve never had to worry about starvation, malaria and simple survival have no right to impose their fears, prejudices and ideologies on the world’s poor. That’s the central message of this book. It’s a message that needs to be spread far and wide.”– CS Prakash, Professor of plant genetics, Tuskegee University“The time has come to hold these radicals to civilized standards of behavior, end the tolerance for their lethal policies, and demand that they be held accountable for their excesses, and the poverty, disease and death they have perpetrated on the poor and powerless. Eco-Imperialism is an excellent start. Driessen does a masterful job of stripping away the radicals’ mantle of virtue, dissecting their bogus claims and holding them to the moral and ethical standards they have long demanded for everyone except themselves. And he does so with humor, outrage and passion – and always without pulling any punches.“Every concerned citizen and policy maker should read this book. The environmentalists will hate it. The world’s destitute masses will love it. And everyone will be challenged by it to reexamine their beliefs and the environmental establishment’s claims.”<div style="text-align: left;"> – Niger Innis, National Spokesman, Congress of Racial Equality</div><div style="text-align: left;">(from his introduction to Eco-Imperialism) </div>“There is a shrill claim today by those that fill the streets to protest globalization, and by the organizations that put them there, that these white, relatively affluent groups are speaking on behalf of the world’s poor and powerless. This unfortunately, is a message that the Western media have bought uncritically – but not Paul Driessen. He cogently shows how the new Green Eco-Imperialists are seeking to impose their will on developing countries, interfering with their efforts to build dams or grow crops or do any of the things which can lift them out of poverty. These are life-and-death matters for the world’s poor, and Driessen is bold and honest enough to challenge the eco-interference in people’s lives as immoral and the cause of death and devastation in countries that are trying to develop and transform their lives. Both those who have bought the Green propaganda line and those who have not would benefit from reading Driessen’s Eco-Imperialism book.”– Thomas R. DeGregori, PhD, Professor of Economics, University of Houston“Paul Driessen forcefully makes the case that the environmental movement has been needlessly anti-human. The real moral and technical challenge is to save both planet and people, and we’ve been given the intelligence and societal skills to do it. Hopefully, with the human population surge now ending, we’ll feel free to be humane again.”– Dennis Avery, Hudson Institute, author of Saving the Planet With Pesticides and Plastic“The Developing World is developing! As a South African living and working in South Africa, I see every day the interaction between the modern, very advanced world of international corporate business, and the world of transitional rural people moving up the development ladder from a grass hut existence. This process is complex, and some first world people propagating their own extremely personal agendas ‘to save the world’ frequently do more harm to developing economies than a genuine caring society realises. Paul Driessen has done a superb job of seeing the picture from our side of the ocean.“A developing country does not need First World ideological oppression. It needs to develop towards its own goals by means of its own self-respect. Driessen makes this clear, with facts and imagery tempered with passion and humour.”– Kelvin Kemm PhD, CEO: Stratek Business Strategy Consultants, Pretoria, South Africa.“Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death is a no-holds-barred critique of what author Paul Driessen calls ‘ideological environmentalism.’ But unlike other books, it challenges eco-activists on what up to now has been the primary source of their strength: their bald assertion that they represent all that is noble, ethical, socially responsible, ‘sustainable,’ and even ordained by God. Rarely mincing words, Driessen demonstrates that – far from being moral – radical Green policies, principles and pressure tactics perpetuate poverty, misery, disease and premature death for hundreds of millions of people.”– Alan Caruba, National Anxiety Center, author of Warning Signsmann bk: DREISSEN: sci (Santer?) "FRAUD" Fall 09; in Post Chronicle and Town Hall (cites Carlin sci bs)  Mann says strategy in Luntz 2002 strat msg memo; sci --> rich and powerfil, or gov --> powerful.  Dreissen sez 89B$ in gov't res $ Aligned with Wise Use wackos like Arnold, and hacks Soon and Singer; but also with evil sellout CORE. Wise Use was in some ways Tea Party 1.0, cowboy division, fuelled by extractive resource corporations who want to get natural resources for free then not clean up the mess. What is new /Evil coopting of environmental justice: that is, the people who have birth defects in Kettleman City because of hazardous waste being trucked in, whose water is contaminated by landfills and fracking, etc etc. For a while there was a legitimate complaint that the environmental movement became too White and suburban, worried about beautiful alpine forests the way the first wave conservationists had been, or polar bears and pandas. These rifts are being healed, but the right takes its old notion of statistical murder, mixes it with the anti-Carson pro-DDT nonsense, then adds a dollop of anti-Commie Agenda 21 lunacy so Driessen ally Roy Innis claims the green movement is “killing black babies.” :murder by denying DDT. Roy tends to stay out of the spotlight since his ruse is easily and has been repeatedly exposed over the years which hurts his credibility thus usefulness thus profits. He runs a telemarketing boiler-room operation which basically uses threat of exposing an organization as racists (again, a spinoff/niche protection racket): His son Niger is more attracted to the limelight and has largely inherited the franchise, and openly uses the terms “Eco-imperialism”, parroted from Driessen, and even “eco-slaughter” ( ). Writes for TownHall.com<a href=" http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen</a><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;">Paul K. Driessen is a senior fellow with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_for_a_Constructive_Tomorrow" title="Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise" title="Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontiers_of_Freedom" title="Frontiers of Freedom" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Frontiers of Freedom</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlas_Economic_Research_Foundation" title="Atlas Economic Research Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Atlas Economic Research Foundation</a>, and is director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Economic_Human_Rights_Project&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Economic Human Rights Project (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Economic Human Rights Project</a>. He's also identified as a senior policy advisor to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Congress_of_Racial_Equality" title="Congress of Racial Equality" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Congress of Racial Equality</a> (CORE).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[1]</a></div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;">
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<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div id="toc" class="toc" style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#Climate_change" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">1 Climate change</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#Background" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">2 Background</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">3 Articles and resources</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">3.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#References" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">3.2 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">3.3 External resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">3.4 External articles</a></li></ul></li></ul></ul></div><h2 style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Climate change</h2>A biographical note at Townhall.com states that "is senior policy advisor for the Congress of Racial Equality and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, two groups that have received some <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">ExxonMobil</a> support for work by him and others on malaria eradication, Third World agriculture and economic development, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Climate_change" title="Climate change" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">climate change</a>, and other issues."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[2]</a>Driessen co-authored a book titled, "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Energy_Keepers,Energy_Killers:The_New_Civil_Rights_Battle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Energy Keepers, Energy Killers: The New Civil Rights Battle (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Energy Keepers, Energy Killers: </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Energy_Keepers,Energy_Killers:The_New_Civil_Rights_Battle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Energy Keepers, Energy Killers: The New Civil Rights Battle (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The New Civil Rights Battle</a>," along with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alan_Gottlieb" title="Alan Gottlieb" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Alan Gottlieb</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sean_Hannity" title="Sean Hannity" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sean Hannity</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roy_Innis" title="Roy Innis" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Roy Innis</a> of CORE. It was published in February 2008 by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Merril_Press&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Merril Press (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Merril Press</a>. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[3]</a><h2 style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Background</h2>Driessen is co-editor of Capital PR News, the newsletter of the nation's largest chapter of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Public_Relations_Society_of_America" title="Public Relations Society of America" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Public Relations Society of America</a>. He is also principal of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global-Comm_Partners" title="Global-Comm Partners" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Global-Comm Partners</a>, a Northern Virginia public relations firm specializing in energy and environmental public policy issues, which now (2004) appears to be defunct.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a>In a biographical note, Driessen states he "received his BA in geology and field ecology from Lawrence University, JD from the University of Denver College of Law, and accreditation in public relations from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Public_Relations_Society_of_America" title="Public Relations Society of America" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Public Relations Society of America</a>."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_note-Bio-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[5]</a>The biographical profile states he had a 25-year career that included working for the United States Senate, the Department of the Interior and an unspecified "energy trade association".<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_note-Bio-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_note-Bio-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">5]</a>"He has spoken and written frequently on energy and environmental policy, global climate change, corporate social responsibility and other topics. He's also written articles and professional papers on marine life associated with oil platforms off the coasts of California[Brent Spar?] and Louisiana - and produced a video documentary on the subject," his biographical note states.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_note-Bio-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[5]</a>As with other environmental sceptics, such as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bjorn_Lomborg" title="Bjorn Lomborg" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bjorn Lomborg</a>, Driessen invokes membership of environmental groups to add weight to his critique of the the environmental movement. Driessen claims to have been "a former member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sierra_Club" title="Sierra Club" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sierra Club</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Zero_Population_Growth" title="Zero Population Growth" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Zero Population Growth</a>".<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_note-Bio-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[5]</a>According to his biographical note "he abandoned their cause when he recognized that the environmental movement had become intolerant in its views, inflexible in its demands, unwilling to recognize our tremendous strides in protecting the environment, and insensitive to the needs of billions of people who lack the food, electricity, safe water, healthcare and other basic necessities that we take for granted."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_note-Bio-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[5]</a>In November 2003, Driessen published <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/order.php3" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Eco-Imperialism: Green Power Black Death</a>. He continues to speak regularly on the subject of "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Eco-Imperialism" title="Eco-Imperialism" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Eco-Imperialism</a>" in the media.<dl style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px; margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Paul has produced publications, actively participated in Atlas meetings and workshops, and coordinated international research and educational programs on global warming, solid waste management and a variety of other topics. He is well liked and works effectively with Atlas staff, corporate executives, and personnel from both here in the United States and overseas."</dd></dl><dl style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px; margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">- <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alejandro_Chafuen" title="Alejandro Chafuen" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Alejandro Chafuen</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlas_Economic_Research_Foundation" title="Atlas Economic Research Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Atlas Economic Research Foundation</a>. (Other testimonials for Driessen's work were from John Knebel, the President of the American Mining Congress; Susan J. Mack from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sughrue_Mion_Zinn_McPeak%26_Seas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sughrue Mion Zinn McPeak & Seas (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sughrue Mion Zinn McPeak & Seas</a>, David Rothbard the President of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow; General H. Norman Schwarzkopf from the U.S. Army; and Dennis T. Stanczuk from ExxonMobil Corporation.)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[6]</a></dd></dl>On February 4, 2004 Driessen testified before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, "on the subject of science, Eco-Imperialism and public policy".<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_note-Testimony-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[7</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_note-Testimony-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">]</a>"He joined a number of other distinguished scientists and policy experts in what was a wide-ranging and provocative discussion," he states on his website. Those giving testimony with him were <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Niger_Innis" title="Niger Innis" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Niger Innis</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cyril_Boynes,Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cyril Boynes, Jr. (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Cyril Boynes, Jr.</a> of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Congress_of_Racial_Equality" title="Congress of Racial Equality" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Congress of Racial Equality</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fifi_Kobusingye-Boynes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fifi Kobusingye-Boynes (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Fifi Kobusingye-Boynes</a> from Uganda.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_note-Testimony-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[7]</a> DDT BS  http://www.aaenvironment.com/DDT.htm<h2 style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Articles and resources</h2><h3 style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Related SourceWatch articles</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Climate_change_sceptics" title="Climate change sceptics" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Climate change sceptics</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Congress_of_Racial_Equality" title="Congress of Racial Equality" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Congress of Racial Equality</a></li></ul><h3 style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">References</h3><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Paul K. Driessen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/article.php3?id=94" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"When visions collide: The Rainforest Action Network’s real target is the Third World’s poor"</a>, Eco-Imperialism.com, January 2005.</li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen?bio=t" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Paul Driessen's Biography"</a>, Townhall.com, accessed January 2009.</li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amazon.com/Energy-Keepers-Killers-Rights-Battle/dp/0936783524" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Energy Keepers</a>," Amazon.com, accessed March 2009.</li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cdfe.org/about-us/staff-and-advisors/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Staff and Advisors"</a>, Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise website, accessed January 2008.</li><li id="cite_note-Bio-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_ref-Bio_5-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:5.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_ref-Bio_5-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">5.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_ref-Bio_5-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">5.2</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_ref-Bio_5-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">5.3</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_ref-Bio_5-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">5.4</a> Paul Driessen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/bio.php3" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Author’s Biography"</a>, Eco-Imperialism.com, accessed January 2009.</li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Global-Comm <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20021022063550/www.global-commpartners.net/Commendations/commendations.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Applause"</a>, archived version of Global-Comm Partners website, from 2002.</li><li id="cite_note-Testimony-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_ref-Testimony_7-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:7.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen#cite_ref-Testimony_7-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">7.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/pdtestimony.php3" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Author Paul Driessen testifies before U.S. Congressional Subcommittee"</a>, House Subcommittee on Energy and Natural Resources, February 4, 2004.</li></ol><h3 style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">External resources</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/bio.php3" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Author's Biography</a>", accessed February 11, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cdfe.org/Paul.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Paul Driessen</a>" (biography), accessed February, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Eco-Imperialism</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ehrp.org/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Economic Human Rights Project</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCmpAsxFv5w" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Paul Driessen at the </a><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCmpAsxFv5w" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Malaria Conference in 2006</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCmpAsxFv5w" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"</a>, YouTube, accessed January 2009.</li></ul><h3 style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">External articles</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Paul Driessen, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200412%5CCOM20041215e.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Prophets, False Prophets and Profiteers</a>", CNSNews.com Commentary, December 15, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Paul Driessen, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.torontofreepress.com/2005/driessen011405.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Skewed ethics on biotechnology:Anti-biotech campaigns perpetuate poverty, malnutrition and premature death</a>", Canada Free Press, January 14, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Paul Driessen, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0305/0305biotech.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Facts versus fears on biotechnology</a>", Enter Stage Right, March 7, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Paul Driessen, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=20523" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Biotech Can Eliminate 2 Million Annual Diarrhea Deaths</a>", Heartland Institute, February 1, 2007.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Paul Driessen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2009/01/03/saving_lives_with_coal" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2009/01/03/saving_lives_with_coal" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Saving Lives with Coal</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2009/01/03/saving_lives_with_coal" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"</a>, Townhall.com, January 3, 2009.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Paul Driessen, op/ed: "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Obamas-energy-climate-plans-would-drag-US-back-to-1905--or-1862--44042137.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Obama's energy, climate plans would drag U.S. back to 1905 – or 1862</a>," Washington Examiner (Washington, DC), April 30, 2009.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Paul Driessen, op/ed: "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.michnews.com/Guest_Commentary/pd60109.shtml" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Climate change 'morality'</a>," MichNews.com, June 1, 2009.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Willie Soon and Paul Driessen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703421204576329420414284558.html?mod=WSJ_comments_MoreIn_Opinion" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"The Myth of Killer Mercury"</a>, Wall Street Journal, May 26, 2011.</li></ul></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Categories</a>: <ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style: none none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-style: none; 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background-repeat: initial;">Coal Issues</a></li></ul></div></div>=boynes (also DDT  http://www.aaenvironment.com/DDT.htm)...However, without energy that families and businesses can afford, energy that is there every time we need it, even the most modern, creative, educated, technologically advanced country cannot function properly. People in poor countries are even more constricted, like bonsai plants in little pots.<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Right here in Uganda, we have many educated, energetic, creative, hard working people. Our legal system lets us open businesses and do many other things. But outside of Kampala and other growing municipalities like Ishaka, Jinja and Gulu, most families, villages and businesses still don’t have electricity – and even in these municipalities frequent power outages create problems. Almost 30 million Ugandans never have electricity or get it only a few hours a week.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">That means over 90% of Ugandans cannot really use their education, skills and desire to improve their lives. They can only do what is possible with wood, charcoal, paraffin and muscle power. How is that different from what our ancestors could do 100 years ago?</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">It’s a good thing we have the Nulubaala Power Station. Otherwise Uganda wouldn’t have any electricity. But when we wanted to generate more hydroelectric power at Bujagali Falls, environmentalists opposed the dam and the World Bank refused to support its construction. Now we have new hope.[it WAS built, with world bank $?!  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bujagali_Hydroelectric_Power_Station">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bujagali_Hydroelectric_Power_Station</a> a oz in operation, 3 on process?</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bujagali_Hydroelectric_Power_Station"> </a></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Drilling companies report that they have already discovered 380,000,000 cubic meters (2.4 billion barrels) of oil – and enough natural gas to provide 400,000 cubic meters (14,000,000 cubic feet) every day – just in Uganda. Much more will likely be discovered in Uganda and other Great Lakes countries.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Some say this will just be another “oil curse,” fueling corruption. I think it is a huge blessing that could fuel an economic boom. It’s up to us. We need to choose our destiny, and work hard to achieve it.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Turning oil into usable energy requires pipelines, refineries and other infrastructure. But with the turmoil in the Middle East, and oil prices climbing, we need to develop it. It will take time, but we need to do it.</div>

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Under Creative Commons License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px;">Attribution</a>desmog<div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">BA in geology and field ecology from Lawrence University.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">JD from the University of Denver College of Law.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Accreditation in Public Relations from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).</li></ul> Source: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/paul-driessen#s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;"> Background</h2>Paul Driessen is associated with numerous right-wing think tanks and organizations skeptical of man-made climate change, including the Committee For a Constructive Tomorrow (<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/committee-constructive-tomorrow" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">CFACT</a>), where he is a Senior Policy Advisor. He is best known for his first book, <a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/order.php3" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Eco-Imperialism: Green Power Black Death</a> where he discusses what he considers negative aspects of the environmental movement. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/paul-driessen#s14" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[14]</a>According to <a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/bio.php3" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">his biographical note</a>, “he abandoned their cause when he recognized that the environmental movement had become intolerant in its views, inflexible in its demands, unwilling to recognize our tremendous strides in protecting the environment, and insensitive to the needs of billions of people who lack the food, electricity, safe water, healthcare and other basic necessities that we take for granted.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/paul-driessen#s2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[2]</a><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;">Stance on Climate Change</h2>“[Christopher] Monckton would have focused on the science. But it is morality that truly requires serious debate. Climate Armageddon claims are being used to justify malignant policies that have no rational basis. “Global average temperatures peaked in 1998 and since have cooled slightly, despite steadily rising CO2 levels. Except in its Western Peninsula, Antarctica is gaining ice, and Antarctic sea ice reached an all-time high in 2007. Arctic ice is seasonably normal, and in 2008 the Northern Hemisphere was covered by more snow than ever before recorded.”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/paul-driessen#s3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[3]</a><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;">Key Quotes</h2>August 15, 2013<blockquote style="margin: 15px 30px; padding: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the more it is absorbed by plants of every description –- and the faster and better they grow, even under adverse conditions like limited water, extremely hot air temperatures, or infestations of insects, weeds and other pests. As trees, grasses, algae and crops grow more rapidly and become healthier and more robust, animals and humans enjoy better nutrition on a planet that is greener and greener.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/paul-driessen#s13" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[13]</a></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 15px 30px; padding: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal-fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits. But it would exact huge costs on society – and bring factories, offices and economies to a screeching halt in states that are 80-98% dependent on coal: Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/paul-driessen#s4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[4]</a></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 15px 30px; padding: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“The day the world runs out of oil is much farther in the future than green activists care to admit. That is clear from data compiled by Dr. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/robert-l-bradley-jr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Robert Bradley, Jr. </a>at the Institute for Energy Research…” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/paul-driessen#s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[5]</a></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 15px 30px; padding: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“Had today’s technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages – and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming pose risks, and none would have passed the “absolute safety” test the zealots demand. Putting them in charge now would mean an end to progress, and perpetual deprivation for inhabitants of developing nations.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/paul-driessen#s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[5]</a></blockquote><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;">Key Deeds</h2>May 21 - 23, 2012Paul Driessen was a <a href="http://climateconference.heartland.org/speakers/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">speaker</a> at the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute</a>'s 7th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC7). Heartland President <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/joseph-bast" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Joseph Bast </a>revealed that <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/joe-bast-announces-death-denial-palooza-final-heartland-iccc-conference" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">this would be Heartland's final conference</a>.DeSmogBlog<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-denial-palooza-sponsors-have-received-67-million-exxonmobil-koch-and-scaife-foundations" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> researched the co-sponsors behind Heartland's ICCC7</a> and found that they had collectively received over $67 million from ExxonMobil, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Brothers" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Koch Brothers </a>and the conservative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scaife_Foundations" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Scaife family foundations</a>.March, 2008<a href="http://www.eskimo.com/_rarnold/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Spoke</a> at the Heartland Institute's first International Conference on Climate Change. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/paul-driessen#s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[6]</a>March 8, 2007Appeared in documentary “<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Great Global Warming Swindle”</a> documentary film.Feb 4, 2004Testified before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, “<a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/pdtestimony.php3" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">on the subject of science, Eco-Imperialism and public </a><a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/pdtestimony.php3" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">policy</a>.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/paul-driessen#s7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[7]</a>Others testifying included <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Niger_Innis" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Niger Innis</a> and <a href="http://www.core-online.org/Staff/cyril.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Cyril Boynes</a> of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)</a>.Nov, 2003Published the book <a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/order.php3" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Eco-Imperialism: Green Power Black Death</a> and speaks regularly on the subject of “Eco-Imperialism” in the media.<h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;"> Affiliations </h2><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CFACT" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)</a> — <a href="http://www.cfact.org/s.asp?a=3" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Senior Policy Advisor</a> and Senior Fellow.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Center for the Defence of Free Enterprise (CDFE)</a> — Senior Policy Advisor.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)</a> — Senior Policy Advisor</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frontiers_of_Freedom" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Frontiers of Freedom (FoF)</a> — Senior Fellow.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Atlas_Economic_Research_Foundation" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Atlas Economic Research Foundation</a> — Senior Fellow.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.eskimo.com/_{rarnold/EHRP.htm}" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Economic Human Rights Project</a> — Director.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tech_Central_Station" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Tech Central Station (TCS) </a>— <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070326195422/http://www.techcentralstation.com/biodreissenpaul.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Contributor</a>. </li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.conservative.org/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The American Conservative Union Foundation</a> — <a href="http://www.conservative.org/wp-content/themes/Conservative/bl-archive/Issues/issue59/060508cul.php" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Contributor</a>.</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Heartland Institute</a> — <a href="http://heartland.org/paul-driessen" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">“Expert</a>.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/paul-driessen#s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[9]</a></li></ul>Source: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/paul-driessen#s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[8]</a><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;"> Publications</h2>Driessen wrote Eco-Imperialism: Green Power Black Death published by Merril Press in November, 2003.He was the <a href="http://www.buycdnow.ca/products/Energy-Keepers-Energy-Killers%3A-The-New-Civil-Rights-Battle-%252d-Roy-Innis-%28Paperback%29-ISBN%3A-0936783524.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">editor</a> of Energy Keepers Energy Killers: The New Civil Rights Battle, written by <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/roy-innis" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Roy Innis</a> and published in February, 2008 by Merril PressSample Publications<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Paul Driessen, “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060209050558/http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=\Commentary\archive\200412\COM20041215e.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Prophets, False Prophets and Profiteers,” </a>CNSNews.com Commentary, December 15, 2004.</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Paul Driessen, “<a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/driessen011405.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Skewed ethics on biotechnology: Anti-biotech campaigns perpetuate poverty, malnutrition and premature death</a>,” Canada Free Press, January 14, 2005.</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Paul Driessen, “<a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2009/01/03/saving_lives_with_coal" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Saving Lives with Coal</a>,” Townhall.com, January 3, 2009.</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Paul Driessen, op/ed: “<a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Obamas-energy-climate-plans-would-drag-US-back-to-1905--or-1862--44042137.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Obama's energy, climate plans would drag U.S. back to 1905 – or 1862</a>,” Washington Examiner (Washington, DC), April 30, 2009. (Original article no longer online, <a href="http://boil-lancer.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-energy-climate-plans-would-drag.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">republished here</a>).</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Paul Driessen, op/ed: “<a href="http://www.michnews.com/Guest_Commentary/pd60109.shtml" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Climate change ‘morality’,</a>” MichNews.com, June 1, 2009.</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Willie Soon and Paul Driessen, “<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703421204576329420414284558.html?mod=WSJ_comments_MoreIn_Opinion" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Myth of Killer Mercury</a>,” Wall Street Journal, May 26, 2011.</li></ul><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;"> Resources</h2><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s1" id="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.eskimo.com/_{rarnold/staff.htm}" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Center Staff and Advisors</a>,” Center for the Defence of Free Enterprise.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s2" id="s2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/bio.php3" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Author's Biography</a>,” Eco-Imperielism.com.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s3" id="s3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.michnews.com/Guest_Commentary/pd60109.shtml" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Climate change </a><a href="http://www.michnews.com/Guest_Commentary/pd60109.shtml" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">‘morality’</a>.” MitchNews.com. June 01, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s4" id="s4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Paul Driessen, “</a><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2009/01/03/saving_lives_with_coal" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Saving Lives with Coal</a>,”Townhall.com, January 3, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s5" id="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Eco-Imperialism: When policies kill,” Testimony (</a><a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/Science_Policy_hearing-Feb_04-PKD_written_stmt.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">PDF</a>) of Paul R. Driessen before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Natural Resources, February 4, 2004.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s6" id="s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.eskimo.com/_rarnold/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Breaking News</a>” (see entry for 03/26/08), Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. Accessed December 6, 2011.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s7" id="s7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/pdtestimony.php3" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Paul Driessen's testimony before the United States Congress SCIENCE AND PUBLICPOLICY: Statement of Paul Driessen, Director, Economic Human Rights Project before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Natural Resources</a>,” February 4, 2004. Republished by Eco-Imperialism.com.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s8" id="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.eskimo.com/_{rarnold/staff.htm}" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Center Staff and Advisors</a>,” Center for the Defence of Free Enterprise.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s9" id="s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://heartland.org/paul-driessen" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Experts: Paul Driessen</a>,” The Heartland Institute. Accessed May, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Paul Driessen</a>,” SourceWatch profile.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1038" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Paul Diressen</a>.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/wiki/index.php/Deniers:Paul_Driessen" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Deniers: Paul Driessen</a>,” ExxonSecrets Wiki.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s13" id="s13" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2013/08/15/carbon-dioxide-the-gas-of-life-n1664457/page/full" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Carbon Dioxide: The Gas of Life</a>,” TownHall.com, August 15, 2013.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s14" id="s14" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.cfact.org/about/staff/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">CFACT Staff</a>,” Committee For a Constructive Tomorrow, Accessed May 5, 2014.   </li></ol></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-label" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold;">Tags: </div><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tags/atlas-economic-research-foundation" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Atlas Economic Research Foundation</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/700" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">CFACT</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; 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padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2654" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">denial industry</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/3068" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">climate change denier</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/3297" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">core</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/3303" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">congress of racial equality</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4046" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">global warming research</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4047" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">climate misinformation</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/5721" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">smogger</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/6886" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">climate change skeptic</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7169" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Paul Driessen</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7170" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">FoF</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7705" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">climate denialism</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7706" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">denial databas</a>e</div></div></div></div>==

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Principal, Global-Comm Partners

Senior Fellow, Atlas Economic Research Foundation Senior Policy Analyst, Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Senior Fellow, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) Senior Fellow, Frontiers of Freedom Institute

Driessen was editor of the book "Rules for Corporate Warriors: How to fight and survive attack group shakedowns" and author of "Eco-Imperialism: Green Power Black Death."

"Paul holds a BA in geology and field ecology from Lawrence University, a JD from the University of Denver College of Law, and an Accreditation in Public Relations from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). He is editor of PRSA's National Capital Chapter newsletter." CDFE website: http://www.cdfe.org/Paul.htm

<h3>KEY DEEDS</h3>

8 March, 2007

Appeared in documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle"

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1038#src7">The Great Global Warming Swindle (Documentary)</a>

<h3>DEEDS</h3>

Paul Driessen is the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power - Black Death (www.Eco-Imperialism.com) and director of the Economic Human Rights Project, a joint initiative of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise and Congress of Racial Equality.

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1038#src1">Tech Central Station Bio - Dreissen</a>

<h3>ORGANIZATIONS</h3>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=23">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</a>

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1038#src0">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=25">CFACT - Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow</a>

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1038#src2">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=35">Frontiers of Freedom Institute and Foundation</a>

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1038#src5">Frontiers of Freedom website 5-06</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=111">Congress of Racial Equality</a>

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1038#src3">"Out of Africa: What Thoughtless Activists Want to do with Biotechnology" by Paul Driessen and Cyril Boynes, Jr.</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=112">Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station</a>

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1038#src1">Tech Central Station Bio - Dreissen</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=133">American Conservative Union Foundation</a>

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1038#src4">"GE Irresponsibility" by Paul Driessen for the Conservative Battleline</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=142">Interfaith Stewardship Alliance</a>

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1038#src6">Interfaith Stewardship Alliance "Call to Faith"</a>

<h3>SOURCES</h3>

<a id="src" name="src"> </a><a id="src0" name="src0"> </a>Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise website 4/04

<a id="src1" name="src1"> </a>Tech Central Station Bio - Dreissen

<a href="http://www.techcentralstation.com/biodreissenpaul.html">http://www.techcentralstation.com/biodreissenpaul.html</a>

<a id="src2" name="src2"> </a>Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06

<a href="http://www.CFACT.org">www.CFACT.org</a>

<a id="src3" name="src3"> </a>"Out of Africa: What Thoughtless Activists Want to do with Biotechnology" by Paul Driessen and Cyril Boynes, Jr.

<a href="http://www.michnews.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/105/6853">http://www.michnews.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/105/6853</a>

<a id="src4" name="src4"> </a>"GE Irresponsibility" by Paul Driessen for the Conservative Battleline

<a href="http://www.acuf.org/issues/issue59/060508cul.asp">http://www.acuf.org/issues/issue59/060508cul.asp</a>

<a id="src5" name="src5"> </a>Frontiers of Freedom website 5-06

<a id="src6" name="src6"> </a>Interfaith Stewardship Alliance "Call to Faith"

<a href="http://www.interfaithstewardship.org/pages/article.php?&id=160">http://www.interfaithstewardship.org/pages/article.php?&id=160</a>

<a id="src7" name="src7"> </a>The Great Global Warming Swindle (Documentary)

<a href="http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/index.html">http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/index.html</a>

mojo 2005 http://motherjones.com/environment/2005/05/some-it-hot

Paul Driessen,

http://www.eco-imperialism.com/main.php

a senior fellow with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow

($252,000) and the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise ($40,000 in

2003). malaria ddt bs?  <a href="http://www.cdfe.org/center-projects/international-affairs/greens-lie-africans-die/">http://www.cdfe.org/center-projects/international-affairs/greens-lie-africans-die/</a> w/ novak alabama=google connects; arnold, caruba, rothbard, soon singer, moore, spenser etcLEADER OF NONE:Obama's Global Warming Policies Have Few Followers By Paul K. Driessen
THE POLITICAL LEFT & THE POLITICS OF ENVIRONMENTALISM:  BARACK OBAMA & AL GORE SEEK TO LEAD AN ENVEAVOR THAT HAS FEWER & FEWER SUPPORTERS & MORE & MORE OPPONENTS.  CITIZENS ARE LIVID OVER YET ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO THE USE THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX TO JUSTIFY FURTHER EXPANDING THE GOVERNMENT & SPENDING BILLINONS MORE TAX DOLLARS FOR CLIMATE-CHANGE ALARMIST RESEARCH, ACTIVISM, & PROPAGANDA.  PROSPECTS FOR ENERGY SHORTAGES, HIGHER TAXES, & ESCALATING ENERGY PRICES CAUSING GROWING OPPOSITION TO OBAMA, GORE, & THEIR ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AGENDA.
FULL STORY:   “Few challenges facing America – and the world – are more urgent than combating climate change,” President Obama has asserted. “We will make it clear that America is ready to lead.”The President and Al Gore are certainly ready to lead. But how many will follow?
Even in America, and certainly on the world stage, the two increasingly look like Don Quixote and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. As they tilt for windmills, and against a “monstrous giant of infamous repute” – climate disasters conjured up by computer models and Hollywood special effects masters – their erstwhile followers are making politically correct noises, but running for the hills.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a 1400-page energy and climate bill – by a razor-thin margin, and only after Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman packed it with enough last-minute deals to protect favored congressional districts, buy votes, and curry favor with assorted special interests. Not one legislator actually read the bill – which would create a trillion-dollar cap-trade-and-tax industry, ensure that energy and food costs “necessarily skyrocket,” kill jobs, and impose an all-intrusive Green Nanny State.
Republicans want to control what people do in their bedrooms, insists the old canard. Democrats, it appears, want to dictate what we do everywhere outside of our bedrooms. And Sancho Gore wants to become the world’s first global warming billionaire, by selling climate indulgences, aka carbon offsets.
The reaction has been predictable – by anyone except House and White House czars and czarinas.
Citizens are livid over yet another attempt to use a purported crisis to justify further expanding the government and spending billions more tax dollars for alarmist research, activism and propaganda, just ahead of the Copenhagen climate conference. Global warming continues to rank dead-last in Pew Research and other polls that actually list it as an issue. Rasmussen puts the President’s approval ratings at 46% and falling. Zogby reports that 57% of Americans oppose cap-and-trade bills.
Manufacturing states, which get 60-98% of their electricity from coal, worry that the only thing they’ll export in ten years will be jobs. Democratic senators from those states worry that the energy and climate issue will be “toxic for them during midterm elections,” says Politico magazine.
Even companies that had eagerly sought seats at the negotiating table are now gagging. ConocoPhillips, Caterpillar, and others finally realize that cap-and-tax will severely penalize them and their customers.
Not even the climate is cooperating. Outside of Dallas, 2009 has brought some of coldest Summer days on record across the U.S.A. Near freezing temperatures nipped at crops, and gas heaters were sine qua non at an August 29 outdoor wedding in Wisconsin. The Farmers Almanac predicts a brutal 2009-2010 Winter.
In Europe, every longitude has a platitude about saving the planet. But EU countries that agreed to slash greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels are well above their Kyoto Protocol targets – Austria by 30% and Spain by 37% as of 2008. And, despite new commitments to cut emissions 40 years from now, you don’t need tarot cards or entrails to predict the more probable EU emissions future.
Germany plans to build 27 coal-fired electrical generating plants by 2020. Italy plans to double its reliance on coal in just five years. Europe as a whole will have 40 new coal-fired power plants by 2015, columnist Alan Caruba reports. The Polish Academy of Sciences has publicly challenged manmade global warming disaster hypotheses. And only 11% of Czech citizens believe rising carbon dioxide emissions caused global temperatures to climb 1975-1998 – and also caused them to rise 1915-1940, fall 1940-1975, then stabilize and decline again 1998-2009.
Australia just voted down punitive global warming legislation. New Zealand has put its emissions-bashing program in a deep freeze.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s top economic aide bluntly dismissed any talk of following President Obama’s quixotic lead. “We won’t sacrifice economic growth for the sake of emission reduction,” he told reporters at the July 2009 G8 meeting.
Chinese and Indian leaders are equally adamant. China is playing a smart hand in this high-stakes climate poker game, drawing up plans to combat global warming sometime in the future, and gradually improve its energy efficiency and pollution control. However, it is building a new coal-fired power plant every week and putting millions of new cars on its growing network of highways.
So is India, which will double its coal-based electricity generation and produce millions of Tata and other affordable cars by 2020. “India will not accept any binding emission-reduction target, period,” Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has stated, “This is a non-negotiable stand.”
India and China have a “complete convergence” of views on these matters, Ramesh added. No wonder: 400 million Indians still do not have electricity; 500 million Chinese still do not.
No electricity means no refrigeration, to keep food and medicines from spoiling. It means no water purification, to reduce baby-killing intestinal diseases. No modern heating and air conditioning, to reduce hypothermia in Winter, heat stroke in Summer, and lung disease year-round. It means no lights or computers, no modern offices, factories, schools, shops, clinics or hospitals.
Fossil fuels are “gradually eliminating poverty in the Third world,” observes UCLA economist Deepak Lal. Any call to curb carbon emissions would “condemn billions to continued poverty. While numerous Western do-gooders shed crocodile tears about the Third World’s poor, they are willing to prevent them from taking the only feasible current route out from this abject state” – oil, gas, coal, nuclear and hydroelectric energy development. The situation is intolerable, unsustainable, lethal, and immoral.
The only way India and China would agree to cut their emissions is if the United States cut its emissions 40% by 2020, says Ramesh – back to 1959 levels and pre-JFK living standards, when the U.S. population was 179 million (versus 306 million today). No way will that happen. So Asian energy and economic development will continue apace. And rightly so, to foster human rights and environmental justice.
All is not bleak, however, for Canute Obama’s impossible dream of controlling global temperatures.
British politicians remain committed to slashing CO2 emissions and replacing hydrocarbons with wind power. Unfortunately, the biggest Umited Kingdom wind projects have been abandoned or put on indefinite hold – and a growing demand/supply imbalance portends still higher energy prices, widespread power cuts, rolling blackouts and energy rationing, the Daily Telegraph reported on August 31, 2009. Brits may soon trade their stiff upper lips for contentious town hall meetings and ballot-box revolution.
The Democratic Party of Japan’s landslide victory in the August 30, 2009, election will likely create a new coalition government tilted strongly to the Left. The DJP has pledged to cut carbon dioxide gas emissions 25% below 1990 levels by 2020 – though this will likely strangle economic growth and job creation, especially if one coalition partner’s opposition to nuclear power becomes DJP policy.
Then there is Africa, where leaders appear ready to support curbs on energy use – in exchange for up to $300 billion per year in additional foreign aid, “to cushion the impact of global warming.” That will be nice for their private bank accounts, but less so for Africa’s 750 million people who still don’t have electricity. Those people will simply be sacrificed, to prevent natural or fictitious climate disasters.
Of course, the real goal was never to control the climate. It was always to control energy use, lives, jobs, economies, transportation, and housing – and usher in a new era of high tax global governance. The American people are increasingly saying they’re not ready to grant that power to Obama, Gore & Company.http://www.proconservative.net/PCVol11Is187DriessenObamasGWPolicies.shtml---http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/<a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise">https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise</a>...<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Militia links</h2>There are links between the Wise Use movement and some of America's right-wing militias. In some cases the scapegoating and demonising of environmentalists appears to have contributed to their becoming the targets of physical assults, arson and even bomb attacks. (Green Backlash, Andrew Rowell, 1996)<a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Arnold (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ron Arnold</a> has contributed to and written around a dozen or more books including At the Eye of the Storm: <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=James_Watt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James Watt (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">James Watt</a> and the Environmentalists -the authorized biography of <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ronald Reagan</a>'s Secretary of the Interior. Watt once commented, 'If the troubles from environmentalists cannot be solved in the jury box or at the ballot box, perhaps the cartridge box should be used'.Many of Arnold's books are published by CDFE's publishing arm, The Free Enterprise Press, which works in tandem with Gottlieb's for-profit Merril Press. The Free Enterprise Press was founded by Arnold in 1987 'to create an outlet for important free enterprise authors' - authors like Paul Driessen. Driessen is a Senior Fellow at CDFE as well as principal of <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Global-Comm_Partners&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Global-Comm Partners (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Global-Comm Partners</a>, a Northern Virginia public relations firm specializing in environmental public policy issues. He is also a senior fellow for the far right <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Atlas_Economic_Research_Foundation" title="Atlas Economic Research Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Atlas Economic Research Foundation</a>.Driessen's book Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death is published by the CDFE's Free Enterprise Press. According to a review on the CDFE's website by <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Paul_Caruba&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Caruba (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Paul Caruba</a>, 'an adjunct scholar of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise', the book helps the reader 'to understand why the environmental movement is engaged in the most appalling example of genocide the world has ever known!' Among the heinous crimes the book lays at the door of the movement is 'the hunger and suffering of millions of the world's poor who are denied the benefits of genetically engineered food'. According to the reviewer, the book takes our attention from 'the war a relative handful of fanatical Islamists are waging on the world' to 'the larger war being waged' by the environmental movement against 'much of the world's population'. (Killing Millions to "Save" the Earth)<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">CORE links</h2>Driessen's book has an introduction by <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Niger_Innis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Niger Innis (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Niger Innis</a> of the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Congress of Racial Equality (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Congress of Racial Equality</a> (CORE), saying it is long overdue. According to Innis, 'The time has come to hold these radicals to civilized standards of behavior, end the tolerance for their lethal policies, and demand that they be held accountable for their excesses, and the poverty, disease and death they have perpetrated on the poor and powerless. Eco-Imperialism is an excellent start... The world's destitute masses will love it.'The book's editorial reviews, include one from Prof <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=CS_Prakash&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="CS Prakash (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">CS Prakash</a>, who enthuses, 'Great book!' This despite the fact that Driessen, in order to give 'environmentalists' the necessary reach and influence for the crimes he lays at their door, has to subsume into their number the World Health Organisation and even USAID. Ironically, Prakash has been an adviser to USAID.Other supportive comments for Driessen's book have come from <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Dennis_Avery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dennis Avery (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dennis Avery</a>, <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Thomas_R.DeGregori&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas R. DeGregori (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Thomas R. DeGregori</a> and <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Patrick_Moore&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patrick Moore (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Patrick Moore</a>, who says, 'This book is the first one I've seen that tells the truth and lays it on the line'.In late January 2004 Driessen helped CORE to organise a 'Teach-In' in New York entitled, 'Eco-Imperialism: The global green movement's war on the developing world's poor'. He was also one of the contributors along with <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Patrick_Moore&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patrick Moore (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Patrick Moore</a>, <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=CS_Prakash&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="CS Prakash (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">CS Prakash</a>, and <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Roger_Bate&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roger Bate (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Roger Bate</a>. In a press release CORE's <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Niger_Innis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Niger Innis (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Niger Innis</a>, another contributor, said that after the Teach-In 'eco-imperialism' would be a household word, adding, 'We intend to stop this callous eco-manslaughter'.On February 4, 2004 Driessen appeared on Capital Hill before the House Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. His affiliation was given as Director, Economic Human Rights Project. The latter was described as 'an initiative of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, in cooperation with the Congress of Racial Equality. Reflecting its belief that "Economic rights are human rights" the growing coalition is dedicated to correcting prevalent environmental myths and misguided policies that help perpetuate poverty, misery, disease and early death in developing countries."'<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nichols-Dezenhall</h2><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Driessen (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Paul Driessen</a> also served as editor of another book published by CDFE's Free Enterprise Press, Rules for Corporate Warriors: How to fight and survive attack group shakedowns, by Nick Nichols, Chairman & CEO of PR firm <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Nichols-Dezenhall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nichols-Dezenhall (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Nichols-Dezenhall</a>. Nichols approach to PR is that of CDFE. In a leaked presentation to pork-producers he quoted Al Capone, 'You can get more with a smile, a kind word and a gun than with a smile and a kind word', and <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">George Carlin</a>, 'If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten!' Nicholls advised the pork-producers they should, 'Fight like guerillas' and 'Take no prisoners'.With the assistance of corporations, PR firms and various right-wing groups, Wise Use tactics and rhetoric have spread around the globe. As early as 1986, the chemical industry sponsored a tour of New Zealand by <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Arnold (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ron Arnold</a>. Wise Use groups have sprung up in Australia sporting bumper stickers such as, 'Fertilize the forest, kill a greenie!'The Wise Use perspective has been strongly promoted in the UK by the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Living_Marxism&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Living Marxism (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Living Marxism</a> (LM) network, which like Lyndon Larouche back-flipped from extreme left to extreme right. Wise Users were significant contributors to the LM-connected Channel 4 TV series Against Nature , in which environmentalists were portrayed as Nazis and the bringers of death and suffering to the Third World.<a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Arnold (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ron Arnold</a> was also among the contributors to LM magazine, penning an article in the March, 1998 issue. According to the article, 'the anti-technology Unabomber who terrorised the USA for two decades, killing 3 and injuring 29 others' took his cue from the anti-technology philosophy of environmentalism which was operating like a self-consuming sickness at the heart of American society. According to the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=LM&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="LM (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">LM</a> archive: '<a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Arnold (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ron Arnold</a>, author of "Ecoterror: The violent agenda to save Nature", suggests that society today suffers from a "Unabomber syndrome" - it "seems willing to entertain the notion of abolishing civilisation"...'. A picture caption for Arnold's article read, 'For Unabomber Ted Kaczynski environmentalism was the theory and assassination the practice'.Thanks to Wise Use, the PR tactic of mobilizing independent-seeming 'third parties' to advocate corporate causes gained a new momentum and a far more aggressive edge. The influence of Arnold and CDFE on the GM debate is all too apparent - from the aggressive use of PR tactics that include the use of fake citizens, fake organisations and fake public protest, to the designation of critics of GM as 'terrorists' and 'eco-imperialists'.The fake <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Center_for_Food_and_Agricultural_Research&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for Food and Agricultural Research (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Center for Food and Agricultural Research</a> (CFFAR), for instance, sought to portray mainstream environmental organisations as engaging in, or linked to, violence and 'terrorism' - a message reinforced through the multiple internet postings of the e-mail fronts <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Andura_Smetacek&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andura Smetacek (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Andura Smetacek</a> and <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Mary_Murphy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mary Murphy (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mary Murphy</a>. Smetacek, Murphy and CFFAR have all been traced back to <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Monsanto" title="Monsanto" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Monsanto</a> and its Internet PR company <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Bivings_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bivings Group (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bivings Group</a>.CFFAR and Smetacek then used the concerns generated by their smears against organisations like Greenpeace to encourage scientists and others to lobby those organisations' funders to stop their financial backing. It is a tactic that comes straight out of the CDFE 'handbook'. To quote Arnold, 'We want to destroy environmentalists by taking away their money and their members.' (New York Times, Dec 19, 1991, emphasis added)PR firm <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Nichols-Dezenhall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nichols-Dezenhall (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Nichols-Dezenhall</a> set up a website called StopEcoViolence - very much along the lines of CFFAR's vandalwatch.org - which claimed to be the grassroots' initiative of a citizens' group. On its links page it lists CFFAR and Vandalwatch.org, as well as the Internet front sites of PR firm <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Berman%26_Co&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Berman & Co (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Berman</a><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Berman%26_Co&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Berman & Co (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> & Co</a>. <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=ActivistCash&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ActivistCash (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">ActivistCash</a> and the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Center_for_Consumer_Freedom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for Consumer Freedom (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Center for Consumer Freedom</a>. The page also has links to CDFE, which it describes as 'a non-partisan education and research organization', and to the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> (CEI). In March 2002 <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Nichols-Dezenhall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nichols-Dezenhall (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Nichols-Dezenhall</a> linked up with CEI to sponsor a conference for journalists and corporate executives on 'eco-extremism'. (You too might be a terrorist. The war on the greens)Like <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Nichols-Dezenhall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nichols-Dezenhall (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nichols-Dezenhall</a>, many of those at the forefront of attacks on critics of GM make use of CDFE's rhetoric. <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Patrick_Moore&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patrick Moore (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Patrick Moore</a>, for instance, talks of environmentalists as 'ultraleftists and extremists' who 'use Gestapo tactics'. Moore claims issues like the GM debate are being influenced by 'pagan beliefs and junk science'. This directly echoes <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Arnold (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ron Arnold</a>'s attacks on environmentalists as 'eco-fascists' and communists, as well as his call for a 'holy war against the new pagans who worship trees and sacrifice people'.Such claims have been picked up and repeated by GM sympathetic scientists. For instance, Prof <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Joe_Perry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joe Perry (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Joe Perry</a>, the chief statistician on the UK government's GM farm-scale evaluations, repeated Moore's claims about 'pagan beliefs' in a lecture on GM given as part of a series by and for Christians interested in science. He also quoted a claim of Moore's that the agendas of most environmentalists were principally about 'class warfare'. He also drew on Moore in a letter to The Guardian, in which he said Moore had 'pointed to the Trotskyists and anti-capitalists who ditched socialism for the environmentalist bandwagon when the iron curtain fell, and became influential within Greenpeace and similar pressure groups.' (see also responses to Perry)In May 2003, speaking at the Natural History Museum in London, the world renowned scientist <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Peter_Raven&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Raven (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Peter Raven</a> also attacked Greenpeace over its opposition to GMOs, telling his audience, 'Last month, the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Congress of Racial Equality (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Congress of Racial Equality</a> (CORE), one of America's most venerable and respected civil rights groups, confronted Greenpeace at a public event and accused it of "eco-manslaughter" through its support of international policies limiting development and the expansion of technology to the developing world's poor'. (for the truth about CORE)The British pro-GM lobby group <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Sense_About_Science&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sense About Science (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sense About Science</a>, whose director and assistant director are both part of the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=LM&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="LM (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">LM</a> network, has also adopted the Wise Use tactic of portraying critics of GM as violent extremists. Its Chairman, <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Dick_Taverne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dick Taverne (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Lord Taverne</a> claimed in an article in The Times that farmers and researchers were being intimidated by 'anti-GM campaigners' adopting 'the tactics of animal welfare terrorists'. The headline was, When crops burn, the truth goes up in smoke. Taverne admitted that environmental groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth 'may condemn violence', but concluded, none the less, 'The anti-GM campaign has become a crusade. Its champions... have become eco-fundamentalists, followers of a new kind of religion... when campaigns become crusades, crusaders are more likely to turn to violence.'
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They discussed ways to bolster trade and investment by American companies on a continent where a billion people – including 200 million aged 15 to 24 – are becoming wealthier and better educated.They have steadily rising expectations and recognize the pressing need to create jobs, improve security, reduce corruption, and control diseases like Ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. They also understand that better roads and air transportation, improved agriculture and nutrition, and far more energy – especially electricity – are thesine qua non to achieving their aspirations. Indeed, nearly 700 million Africans still do not have electricity or get it only sporadically, a few hours a day or week.“The bottom line is, the United States is making a major and long-term investment in Africa’s progress,” Mr. Obama stated. One has to wonder whether his rhetoric matches his policy agenda – and whether Africans would do well to remember the president’s assurances that Americans could keep their doctors, hospitals and insurance, when they hear his fine words and lofty promises for Africa.The fact is, no modern economies, healthcare systems or wealth-building technologies can function in the absence of abundant, reliable, affordable electricity and motor fuels. They require far more than can possibly come from “climate-smart” wind, solar and biofuel sources. Adequate food and nutrition require modern agriculture. Eradicating insect-transmitted diseases requires chemical insecticides.Obama Administration policies on all these matters are likely to hold Africa back for decades.For President Obama, everything revolves around fears of “dangerous manmade climate change” and a determination to slash or end fossil fuel use. He has said electricity rates must “necessarily skyrocket.” His former Energy Secretary wanted gasoline prices to reach European levels: $8-10 per gallon. His EPA is waging a war on coal. And his own requirements would prevent Africa from modernizing.In 2009, the president <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/24/obama-keeps-africa-in-the-dark/?page=all">told Africans</a> they should focus on their “bountiful” wind, solar, geothermal and biofuel resources, and refrain from using “dirty” fossil fuels. He signed an executive order, directing the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to ensure that any projects it finances reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2020. He launched a number of domestic and international climate initiatives.Afterward, when Ghana asked OPIC to support a $185 million gas-fired electrical generator (that would utilize natural gas being flared and wasted at its oil production operations), OPIC refused to help. When South Africa sought a World Bank loan for its state-of-the-art Medupi coal-fired power plant (which will reduce dangerous pollutants 90% below what 1970s-era plants emitted), the White House ”abstained” from supporting the loan. Thankfully, approval squeaked by anyway, and Medupi will soon be a reality.Even more absurd and unethical, the White House announced last October that it will now oppose any public financing for coal-based power projects, except in the world’s poorest nations, unless they meet the draconian carbon dioxide emission standards now imposed on new coal-fired generators in the USA....

</div></div><div class="row" style="margin-left: -20px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="span8" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 20px; width: 620px;"><div class="b-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/07/26/just-who-is-waging-the-war-on-science-n1866559" id="title" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Just Who is Waging the ‘War on Science’?</a></div><div class="a-date muted" style="font-style: italic;">Posted July 26, 2014</div>When it comes to attacking climate scientists, the alarmist Left has the market cornered.</div></div><div class="row" style="margin-left: -20px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="span8" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 20px; width: 620px;"><div class="b-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/07/19/killing-marine-life-with-ethanol-n1863752" id="title" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Killing Marine Life with Ethanol</a></div><div class="a-date muted" style="font-style: italic;">Posted July 19, 2014</div>Ethanol damages your cars, small engines, food budget – and kills Gulf of Mexico animals.</div></div><div class="row" style="margin-left: -20px; line-height: 20px; background-color: transparent;"><div class="span8" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 20px; width: 620px;"><div class="b-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/07/15/greenpeace-showcases-its-antihuman-side-n1862066" id="title" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Greenpeace Showcases its Anti-Human Side</a></div><div class="a-date muted" style="font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted July 15, 2014</div>t was a surreal experience. As the Heartland Institute’s hugely successful Ninth International Conference on Climate Change ended, I agreed to let Greenpeace activist Connor Gibson interview me.</div></div><div class="row" style="margin-left: -20px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="span8" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 20px; width: 620px;"><div class="b-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/07/05/holding-greenpeace-accountable-n1859007" id="title" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Holding Greenpeace Accountable</a></div><div class="a-date muted" style="font-style: italic;">Posted July 05, 2014</div>Poor countries should hold Big Green groups and directors liable for ravages they cause</div></div><div class="row" style="margin-left: -20px; line-height: 20px; background-color: transparent;"><div class="span8" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 20px; width: 620px;"><div class="b-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/07/01/breaking-epas-climate-science-secrecy-barrier-n1857403" id="title" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Breaking EPA’s Climate Science Secrecy Barrier</a></div><div class="a-date muted" style="font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted July 01, 2014</div>FOIA request seeks hidden data and analyses that agency claims back up its climate scares.</div></div><div class="row" style="margin-left: -20px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="span8" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 20px; width: 620px;"><div class="b-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/06/21/executive-fiats-in-the-other-washington-n1854111" id="title" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Executive Fiats in the Other Washington</a></div><div class="a-date muted" style="font-style: italic;">Posted June 21, 2014</div>Two western state governors intend to get low carbon fuel standards, by legislation or decree.</div></div><div class="row" style="margin-left: -20px; line-height: 20px; background-color: transparent;"><div class="span8" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 20px; width: 620px;"><div class="b-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/06/18/fixing-our-dictatorial-epa-n1852727" id="title" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Fixing Our Dictatorial EPA</a></div><div class="a-date muted" style="font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted June 18, 2014</div>Last year, Congress enacted 72 new laws and federal agencies promulgated 3,659 new rules, imposing $1.86 trillion in annual regulatory compliance costs on American businesses and families.</div></div><div class="row" style="margin-left: -20px; line-height: 20px; background-color: transparent;"><div class="span8" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 20px; width: 620px;"><div class="b-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/06/07/hollywood-hypocrisy-toward-hydrocarbons-n1848659" id="title" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Hollywood Hypocrisy Toward Hydrocarbons</a></div><div class="a-date muted" style="font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted June 07, 2014</div>Anti-fracking fervor underscores dismissive attitudes toward working classes and poor families.</div></div><div class="row" style="margin-left: -20px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="span8" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 20px; width: 620px;"><div class="b-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/05/31/just-assume-we-have-a-climate-crisis-n1845679" id="title" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Just Assume We Have a Climate Crisis</a></div><div class="a-date muted" style="font-style: italic;">Posted May 31, 2014</div>Impose job-killing policies on the assumption that we’re causing a CO2-driven catastrophe.</div></div><div class="row" style="margin-left: -20px; line-height: 20px; background-color: transparent;"><div class="span8" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 20px; width: 620px;"><div class="b-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/05/17/the-loony-antikeystone-campaign-n1839259" id="title" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">The Loony Anti-Keystone Campaign</a></div><div class="a-date muted" style="font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted May 17, 2014</div>It is the symbol of Big Green’s die hard opposition to hydrocarbons and modern living standards</div></div><div class="row" style="margin-left: -20px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="span8" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 20px; width: 620px;"><div class="b-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/05/10/manmade-climate-disruption--the-hype-and-reality-n1836216" id="title" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Manmade Climate Disruption – the Hype and Reality</a></div><div class="a-date muted" style="font-style: italic;">Posted May 10, 2014</div>Distractions, agendas, false realities, and policies that bring much harm but few benefits</div></div><div class="row" style="margin-left: -20px; line-height: 20px; background-color: transparent;"><div class="span8" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 20px; width: 620px;"><div class="b-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/04/26/should-california-dictate-us-energy-policies-n1829690" id="title" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Should California Dictate US Energy Policies?</a></div><div class="a-date muted" style="font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted April 26, 2014</div>Can the rest of America afford its Alice in Wonderland energy policies for? (Can California?)</div></div><div class="row" style="margin-left: -20px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="span8" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 20px; width: 620px;"><div class="b-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/04/19/tower-of-pisa-policies-n1826267" id="title" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Tower of Pisa Policies</a></div><div class="a-date muted" style="font-style: italic;">Posted April 19, 2014</div>Built on a foundation of sand, the Leaning Tower of Pisa would have toppled over long ago, if not for ingenious engineering projects that keep it from tilting any further. The same thing is true of ethanol, automobile mileage, power plant pollution and many other environmental policies.</div></div><div class="row" style="margin-left: -20px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="span8" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 20px; width: 620px;"><div class="b-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/04/05/perils-of-commercial-beekeeping-n1818842" id="title" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Perils of Commercial Beekeeping</a></div><div class="a-date muted" style="font-style: italic;">Posted April 05, 2014</div>One of America’s earliest food crops – almonds – is also one of the most important for commercial beekeepers. Almonds depend on bees for pollination, but the explosive growth of this bumper crop taxes the very honeybees the industry needs to thrive.</div></div><div class="row" style="margin-left: -20px; line-height: 20px; background-color: transparent;"><div class="span8" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 20px; width: 620px;"><div class="b-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/03/29/finalized-tier-3-gasoline-sulfur-rules-will-bring-bogus-benefits-at-high-health-and-welfare-price-n1816617" id="title" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">More Fraudulent Science From EPA</a></div><div class="a-date muted" style="font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted March 29, 2014</div>The Obama Environmental Protection Agency recently slashed the maximum allowable sulfur content in gasoline from 30 parts per million to 10 ppm.</div></div><div class="row" style="margin-left: -20px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="span8" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 20px; width: 620px;"><div class="b-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/03/22/us-electricity-system-in-regulatory-and-terrorist-crosshairs-n1812722" id="title" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">US Electricity System in Regulatory and Terrorist Crosshairs</a></div><div class="a-date muted" style="font-style: italic;">Posted March 22, 2014</div>Government agencies are forcing us to spend countless billions on illusory risks and anti-fossil fuel mandates, while ignoring real threats to our livelihoods, living standards and lives.</div></div>===

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