Economic Reality of 5 Million Green Jobs

The high cost of green energy predictably drove energy-intensive Spanish companies and industries out of Spain to countries with cheaper carbon-based energy, while the cost to Spanish taxpayers of renewable-energy subsidies was "enormous . 4.35 percent of all (value-added taxes) collected, 3.45 percent of the household income tax, or 5.6 percent of the corporate income tax."

There is much more in the report, which at about 50 pages in length would make useful reading for our elected representatives. Those who are worried about global warming may, after studying this report, still want to subsidize renewable-energy production. But it will be hard for such people to honestly continue to believe that they can think they are addressing global warming while creating millions of net new jobs.

Wait a minute: Sea levels changed naturally, and yet everyone didn't die?: Survival tricks from the past

The present can learn useful tricks from the past about adapting to climate change. This is the message from archaeologists who have studied the way of life back when mankind coped with rising sea levels after the ice ages.

Although it might seem more obvious to move inland and into hills when the sea rises, it is not necessarily the best thing to do, archaeologists conclude. They have studied the village of Los Buchillones on the north coast of Cuba, where sea level rose up to five meters after the ice ages.