A Cherry-Picker’s Guide to Temperature Trends Update: Warming Crisis Not — MasterResource

New Statement: For most of the past 17 years, global warming has been occurring at a rate that is below the average climate model expected warming.

» The (Non) Producers: Obama’s Bialystock and Bloom - Big Government

Obama’s wind and solar boondoggle so far includes – according to his own Council on Economic Advisors – $90 billion in ‘green energy’ stimulus spending for 190,000 inherently temporary jobs (think: census job, as each lasts only so long as the state support, meaning it is yet another state-created bubble). That is $450,000 per job. The pledge to create’ millions of such jobs at your expense is a vow to seal our bankruptcy.

Renewables are the most expensive way for all of its constantly shifting excuses, including a) to produce energy, b) to create jobs and c) to reduce emissions. And pouring money into centuries old technology as state-picked ‘winners’ delays rather than expedites tech development and advancement.

Such wasteful adventurism is utterly boneheaded; these products are alive solely for political reasons — both totemic and to satisfy big lobbies. Their vendors and cheerleaders premise their movement and their industry on a crusade against waste. And yet nothing is more wasteful than their scheme.