Solar Subsidies Fail To Create Green Jobs, Again « PA Pundits – International

To add insult to injury, ABC’s Jonathan Karl reports that “a recent report by American Wind Energy Association showed a drop in U.S. wind manufacturing jobs last year.” That’s right—even with a government-subsidized demand, wind manufacturing decreased.

Wind Integration: Incremental Emissions from Back-Up Generation Cycling (Part V: Calculator Update) — MasterResource

What emerges from this analysis is that in electricity systems that must choose among fossil fuel-fired means of integrating wind volatility, no plausible scenario seems to exist where wind can play a positive role as the means to achieve fossil fuel or greenhouse gas emissions savings.

CapitalClimate: Dallas Sets All-Time Calendar Day and 24-Hour Snowfall Record

AM Update: The final record daily snowfall for Dallas was 11.2" on Feb. 11. The 24-hour total of 12.5" from 4 am Feb. 11 to 4 am Feb. 12 also broke the 24-hour record of 12.1" on Jan. 15-16, 1964.

The seasonal total of 15.7" is now the second highest on record, and this is the snowiest winter since 1977-1978.

How do non-scientists evaluate competing claims for global warming?

For me, reading about the shenanigans of Climategate was very important (which is why I helped Mosher write a book about it). Watching scientists act as dishonestly as their spokespeople made it clear that the certainty they preached had nothing to do with what the evidence showed. They were sexing up the record to make it look worse. I'm sure they had their reasons, and I'm sure that one of the reasons was that they believed it--but couldn't put the data together to show what they believed. (But there were other reasons, like career advancement, getting the next grant out of the government, not wanting to be shown up as wrong...)

Rare snowflakes start falling from Miss. to Fla.

Flakes were falling—or threatened—Friday from Texas to the Florida Panhandle and then up along the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina, bringing a rare white landscape to spots that haven't seen snow in a decade or longer. The storm was crawling east out of Texas, where it left the Dallas area with more than a foot of snow, nearly 200 traffic accidents, thousands without power and hundreds of canceled flights.