The new green jobs: 12 bucks an hour « An Honest Climate Debate

Many of the entry-level jobs making green energy components start at $12 an hour, much less than the now extinct $28 an hour job that had allowed high school-educated workers in the auto sector to achieve middle class status.

May 2009 Global Temperature Update +0.04 deg. C « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

May 2009 saw another drop in the global average temperature anomaly, from +0.09 deg. C in April to +0.04 deg. C in May, originating mostly from the Northern Hemisphere and the tropics.

[A Massive, Inefficient, Fraud-filled] Gasoline Tax [Based on the Greatest Scientific Fraud Ever]?

I have supported the idea of establishing a price for GHG emissions through cap and trade since long before I started writing this blog, but I must say I'm dismayed by the distorted version that has emerged from the Energy and Commerce Committee. If all they really wanted to do was tax petroleum products more heavily--and there are solid arguments in favor of that--then they could have done so without creating anything like the impenetrable bureaucratic intricacy that this bill would bequeath us. Unfortunately, Congressional action on emissions has become entangled by the overlapping but hardly congruent imperatives of energy security and climate change and the innate desire to shield consumers (voters) from anything that looks like a direct tax. What are the chances the Senate will strip out much of the bill's complexity and favoritism and deliver a simpler, cleaner (in all senses) piece of legislation?