Another Spectacular Green Failure | Via Meadia

Greens have an odd knack for developing useless and expensive government policies. Ethanol, ballyhooed as a way to reduce greenhouse gasses, raises food prices for the poor and, in the U.S., actually increases greenhouse gas emissions at great cost. Costly programs to create “green jobs” seem to produce more scandals than jobs. And now we have a subsidy program for electric cars that costs money but otherwise gets nothing done.

Danny Alexander: Tories must stop trashing green agenda | Politics | The Guardian

Alexander describes how the government is having to deal with Tory backbenchers – including those he calls "luddite" climate change deniers – opposing green technologies such as windfarms. "I just don't think the British economy can any more afford to have a blue roadblock to green growth," he says.

Tax Credit in Doubt, Wind Power Industry Is Withering - NYTimes.com

At its peak in 2008 and 2009, the industry employed about 85,000 people, according to the American Wind Energy Association, the industry’s principal trade group.

About 10,000 of those jobs have disappeared since, according to the association, as wind companies have been buffeted by weak demand for electricity, stiff competition from cheap natural gas and cheaper options from Asian competitors.

Twitter / ret_ward: Excellent @Revkin blog post ...

Excellent @Revkin blog post on media shenanigans by researchers keen to prevent criticism of their work: http://nyti.ms/NHiWja