The green jobs fantasy | joblessness, fantasy, way - CHAREN - Odessa American Online

green jobs are a chimera. The numbers touted by the administration — Obama claimed that he would create 5 million green jobs in 10 years — are plucked out of thin air. The administration claims that 225,000 green jobs were either created "or saved" by $80 billion in stimulus spending. But that escape hatch phrase — "or saved" — prevents any kind of serious accounting. Besides, as Ed Morrissey of Hot Air calculates, if those numbers were accurate, it would mean a $355,555.56 taxpayer subsidy per green job.

The president’s ideological commitment to the idea of green jobs seems impervious to evidence.

[No need to worry about global cooling:  After "a couple" of years, or maybe 70, it might warm up again] | PCMag.com

Reductions in sunspot activity have correlated with particularly cool periods in earth's history, the most notable being the "Maunder Minimum," a 70-year span that began in 1645 when average temperatures in northern Europe and North America went down by a few degrees. The period is sometimes referred to as the Little Ice Age.
...for any hoping a weak solar cycle could provide a way to offset climate change, you can forget it. As Pesnell points out, "These are two independent effects. The solar signal will go up for awhile, but it's not an offset because if you just wait a couple of years, the sun will come back. They don't cancel each other out."

Skeptic's Corner

"Joules resulting from a positive radiative imbalance must continue to be accumulated in order for global warming to occur. In the last 7 1/2 years there has been an absence of this heating. An important research question is how many more years of this lack of agreement with the GISS model (and other model) predictions must occur before there is wide recognition that the IPCC models have failed as skillful predictions of the effect of the radiative forcing of anthropogenic inputs of greenhouse gases and aerosols."  [Pielke Sr]