Possible Link Between Dam and China Quake - NYTimes.com

BEIJING — Nearly nine months after a devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province, China, left 80,000 people dead or missing, a growing number of American and Chinese scientists are suggesting that the calamity was triggered by a four-year-old reservoir built close to the earthquake’s geological fault line.

Hovercrafts, Concordes, and Windmills - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Yesterday brought a rewarding correspondence with colleagues on the absurdity of the rent-seekers’ line that unless we mandate (something uneconomical) here, why, our domestic producers will be left behind! I have addressed this before in the states before policymakers considering the Center for Climate Strategies/Rockefeller Brothers Foundation effort to install a patchwork of Kyoto-style regimes forcing federal action to bail them out, and on Planet Gore.

This particular exchange was prompted by a claim that “There’s only one American company, that’s General Electric, that is even in the world’s top 15 suppliers of wind turbines” (GE means the old Enron Wind that was one of the investments cobbled together as Enron created the Global Warming Industry in the 1990s, along with BP). The point was essentially that, unless we hobble ourselves with a national windmill mandate, why, we might get shut out of having a world-leading windmill manufacturer.

Green Collar Jobs – Not On This Planet » The Foundry

A key argument in favor of the stimulus package is that it contains several measures that are not only good for the environment but will create new jobs and boost the economy. From the people who make wind turbines and solar panels to those who install insulation in buildings or design electric cars, the predicted number of so-called green collar jobs to be created stretches into the hundreds of thousands. But reality says otherwise. In fact, everywhere that these green measures have been tried, unemployment has increased, not decreased. The same will happen across the U.S. if the stimulus package is enacted.

Take California, the state hyped by the proponents of green collar jobs as a model for the rest of the nation. This is a state that has already moved aggressively on several things in the stimulus package – tough energy efficiency measures to drive down consumption, alternative energy requirements, and legislation to fight global warming.

Governor Schwarzenegger and other green stimulus proponents have hyped these provisions as green in both the environmental and economic sense and thus a win-win for the state. However, notwithstanding questions about the supposed environmental benefits, it has become clear in recent months that California’s economy is nothing less than a basket case. The green stimulus measures are a contributor to the malaise.