Paul Driessen ——Bio and Archives--February 2, 2026

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Calling them wasteful and a threat to America’s sovereignty, freedoms and prosperity, President Trump pulled the United States out of 66 international organizations – most importantly the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the foundation for “climate crisis” treaties and policies.

He also withdrew the US from the Paris climate agreement, vetoed US attendance at the 2025 COP30 climate conference, and revoked multiple costly regulations based on “climate crisis” claims.

Dozens of banks have withdrawn from the Net Zero Banking Alliance. At this year’s World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, climate action, renewable energy and sustainable development received little attention – by the wealthy political, corporate and financial elites who populate the WEF.

(However, the WEF may simply be going into stealth mode, using its “financialization of nature” concept to “treat ecosystems as assets,” dollarize them – and set the stage for the “international community” or UN to replace local, state and national decision-making on development.)

Bill Gates now says climate change is not a crisis, and the world must start focusing instead on improving lives, healthcare and living standards for the world’s poorest people, especially by ensuring they have plentiful, dependable, affordable energy – which only coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear can provide.

Running counter to these trends, Western Europe is still committing economic suicide – or more accurately, its elites are committing economic and real manslaughter against poor and working classes.

But meanwhile, China, India, Indonesia and other recently impoverished and still developing countries are increasingly using fossil fuels to lift millions, even billions out of poverty, disease and despair. African and other nations are eager to follow – and tell Western climate scolds to buzz off.

Winter Storm Fern caused dozens of deaths across the United........

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