The Carbon Con Game - Peter Huber - Forbes.com

Since nobody can track twigs and cowpats, China's carbon accountants can make its renewable numbers come out anywhere they like.

Steve Forbes: Climate Change Folly - Forbes.com

This Denmark summit will be the biggest confab since Kyoto in 1997, when CO2 emission reduction agreements were made. Not much came of those agreements because China and India were exempted. The Obama administration can't get its cap-and-tax scheme through Congress because no one wants to commit political suicide for it. Let's stick to areas where our efforts will make a difference instead of wasting precious time. Innovation and growth will solve our environmental problems. Ineffectual restrictions will reap us no rewards.

Steve Forbes: Fact And Comment - Forbes.com

Therefore, even if the U.S. drastically cut back on its output of CO2, the overall impact on global temperatures would barely be measurable, perhaps 0.3 of a degree Fahrenheit but probably much less. Despite the Obama Administration's push for a cap-and-tax scheme that would greatly increase the cost of energy (the Treasury Department's estimate: $300 billion a year) it's not going to happen. Even a Democratic Congress is not going to commit political suicide.

Green Jobs? What Green Jobs? » The Foundry

Thus far, the effort to create or save jobs hasn’t been successful. MacGillis details several energy efficiency initiatives that have failed to create new jobs. In Baltimore, for instance, stimulus dollars have been spent to patch roads, install newer furnaces and painting rooftops white to conserve energy. According to MacGillis, none of these projects, as well as others, have created a single job. Another example is in the state of Indiana, where companies have “weatherized 82 homes out of its three-year goal of 25,000, and reported zero new jobs from the spending.” Maybe by the time they get to the other 24,918 homes a job will have been created.