Does wind power really provide more jobs than coal? | csmonitor.com

A 1995 factbook by the Department of Energy cites 1994 study conducted for the National Coal Association, which said that the coal industry’s workforce, which at the time was said to be 136,000, was indirectly responsible for another 1.4 million jobs.

While it’s encouraging that wind industry jobs grew by 70 percent last year, it’s probably a good thing that, all else being equal, they don’t currently employ more people than the coal industry does. After all, according to the US Department of Energy’s Renewable Energy Data Book [PDF], wind provides only about 2 percent of America’s electricity. Coal provides half. If it really took that many people to provide so little wind energy, it would never become competitive with fossil fuels.

CO2 Does Not Drive Glacial Cycles « Watts Up With That?

In the ice core record, temperature drives CO2 - not the other way around. Sometimes the earth warms quickly at 180 ppm CO2. Other times it cools quickly at 280 ppm CO2. Again, CO2 is not the driver of glacial cycles - there has to be a different cause.

THE SOLAR CONNECTION by Professor Will Alexander « An Honest Climate Debate

To summarise, in our paper we demonstrate that a synchronous relationship exists between the sun’s wobble as it moves on its trajectory through galactic space under the influence of the orbiting planets, (Figure 9), all the way through to the flow in the Vaal River in the interior of the African subcontinent (Figure 1). This relationship is statistically significant at the 95% confidence level...