Green jobs or pink slips? - JSOnline

Gov. Jim Doyle last week unveiled his marquee energy initiative, the Clean Energy Jobs Act. He says the legislation would create "green jobs," but it is much more likely to generate pink slips.

The legislation would mandate more green energy, such as wind and solar power. Of course, forcing people to use green energy creates jobs in the green energy industry, but it's not that simple. Green energy is expensive energy, which is bad news for Wisconsin's energy-intensive industrial base. Doyle's mandate might create some jobs in the solar panel installation business, but it's going to destroy just as many, and probably more, paychecks in the manufacturing business.

Climate and Cancer - William M. Connolley - Stoat

Everyone really knows the world is getting warmer and it is our fault. The endless slew of press stories to and fro makes little difference to this. Goverment policy continues onwards like a juggernaut and isn't touched by gossip. Witness the tiny impact the CRU email hacking had, in the end. It all seemed so exciting for a day or two. The obvious fact that people are reluctant to cut their CO2 consumption by not flying off on holiday is just the same as people still putting lots of butter on their toast and salt on their chips.

Carroll: Obama's green jobs fantasy - The Denver Post

As Boudreaux explained on his blog, "How can Mr. Friedman be so sure that the benefits of windmills, solar panels, and battery-powered electric cars will exceed the costs of making — will exceed in value that which must be foregone to make — these green fetishes a reality?
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Last week, The Wall Street Journal's Jeffrey Ball reported that "government spending and price supports accounted for about one-third of the roughly $145 billion invested worldwide in clean energy in 2009 . . . ." Little wonder that under the Obama stimulus plan, "renewable energy producers are eligible for cash grants totaling 50 percent of the cost of projects they do this year — however high those costs go."

At what point does this gusher of subsidies become a scandal?

YEATMAN: Secret science from the CIA - Washington Times

In light of the damage done to the reputation of science by the recent "Climategate" scandals - in which data that should have been made public wasn't and a group of scientists discussed ways to thwart the peer-review process and intimidate peer-reviewed journals, the scientific community should be wary of depending on research where secrecy antithetical to the openness of science appears to be a requirement.