Psst! . . . Non-Green Jobs Grow in Detroit - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Meanwhile, just a stone’s throw away — or on the other side of the galaxy, depending on your perspective — GM headquarters was announcing that 900 idled Michigan workers were being brought back to meet rising demand for . . . SUVs.

That’s right. Sales of the high-profit vehicles that Obama routinely ridicules Detroit for builindg are once again hot. The Buick Enclave (18 mpg), Saturn Outlook (19 mpg) and GMC Acadia (19 mpg) have all seen sales rise by 15 percent since April. Adding a second shift at GM’s Delta Township plant is welcome news in a state where the unemployment rate rose to 14.1 percent last month. The SUV sales rebound has also reversed the shutdown of the automaker's Spring Hill, Tenn., plant because of an increase in demand for the Chevy Traverse SUV, introduced last year to the chagrin of green Washington.

Sandalow, Granholm, and Locke were not present for GM’s jobs announcement. That’s no surprise. They’re not “green” jobs. They’re just real jobs.

Emissions Control, Myths, and Realities — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

The United States is having better luck at controlling its emissions than most other countries, without the multi-billion-dollar mandates of Kyoto.

GCCI #9: Forcing Observation to Fit the Theory | Climate Skeptic

Frankly, the statement by these folks that weather balloon data and satellites have large uncertainties is hilarious. While this is probably true, these uncertainties and inherent biases are DWARFED by the biases, issues, uncertainties and outright errors in the surface temperature record. Of course, the report uses this surface temperature record absolutely uncritically, ignoring a myriad of problems such as these and these. Why the difference? Because observations from the flawed surface temperature record better fit their theories and models. Sometimes I think these guys should have put a picture of Ptolemy on their cover.

GCCI #10: Extreme Example of Forcing Observation to Fit the Theory | Climate Skeptic

A quick glance at this chart, and what do we see? A line historically rising surprisingly in parallel with global temperature history, and then increasing in the future.

But let’s look at that chart legend carefully. The green “historic” data is actually nothing of the sort - it is simulation! The authors have created their own history. This entire chart is the output of some computer model programmed to deliver the result that temperature drives heavy precipitation, and so it does.

GCCI #11: Changing Wet and Dry Weather | Climate Skeptic

Maybe my Mark I eyeball is off, but it sure doesn’t look like any trend here, or that there we are currently at any particularly unprecedented levels today.