Investor's Business Daily -- Green Stimu-less

Recession: Polls show Americans care most about jobs right now, and couldn't care less about global warming. So why does the economic stimulus plan attempt to marry the two?
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Does government really know better? Or is this whole "green economy" push just one more big boondoggle — like ethanol?

Recall the ethanol bandwagon that government got industry to hop on in 2007. It was boosted by the passage of the Energy Independence and Security Act, requiring the consumption of 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2020 — a fivefold increase over current levels.

Another $105 million to be blown on the CO2 scam: Europeans Agree To Build Fifteen CO2 Capture And Storage Research Labs

In Europe that message has sunk in. Nine European countries are building fifteen research laboratories for CO2 capture and storage. The labs will be built at a total cost of €81 million (about $105 million US) and are sponsored by Norway, Germany, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Hungary. Poland, Croatia and Denmark.

But I thought the rule was ironclad: Warmer weather is always good for any species we don't like?

ScienceDaily (Jan. 30, 2009) — A new study by researchers at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs has found that global climate change may lead to the retreat of some invasive plant species in the western United States, which could create unprecedented ecological restoration opportunities across millions of acres throughout America. At the same time, global warming may enable other invasive plants to spread more widely.