{Disarmed} 7 Green Jobs Myths and the weekly Chilling Effect cartoon

Energy and Environment: Around the Interwebs

* Scientists Claim Earth Is Undergoing Natural Climate Shift

* The gauntlet is thrown!

* Watts Up With That?: If You Can’t Explain It, You Can’t Model It

* Thar She Blows: Industry Forecast Calls for More Wind

* How to fight climate change with cow dung

* Climate Audit: Sudden Climate Change Syndrome

* More Global Warming Pills to Swallow…

* Sound the alarm! There’s a coal plant that could be built

* Heartland Meeting of Climate “Realists” a Huge Success

* Everyone freak out! It’s “The Climate Change Tipping Point”

* High and dry on the California farm

7 Green Jobs Myths

Kermit the Frog summed it up best, “It’s not easy being green.” Today, academics and researchers from four U.S. universities today released a joint study, Seven Myths About Green Jobs. The analysis takes an in depth look at widespread claims of green jobs and the new green economy and their potential impact on the economy, employment and the environment. Here’s a taste…

Gallup Part 1: Pragmatic Americans: Promote Both New Energy Sources and Old

Plenty of notable info from Gallup, but this is probably bad news for the hardcore environmentalits, who seem to lose their luster when tough economic times force clear-headed decisions…

Gallup Part 2: Increased Number Think Global Warming Is “Exaggerated”

Well, the timing couldn’t be more interesting. The Heartland Institute holds a conference where people discussed the overhyped nature of global warming, the New York Times implies that skepticism is dead, and now Gallup weighs in with this evidence:

“Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated, a record-high 41% now say it is exaggerated. This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in more than a decade of Gallup polling on the subject.”

It Doesn’t Take An Economist … Or Does It?

The Economist has long been concerned by global warming. But as… well, an economics-minded paper, it certainly isn’t buying the cap-and-trade plan many U.S. politicians are selling:

“Both the president and cap-and-trade’s supporters in Congress seem inclined to respond with subsidies for pet technologies that might help those hardest hit, or with mandates to cut emissions in particular ways. The president, for example, wants to double the amount of electricity that comes from renewables, meaning wind farms, solar-power plants and the like. Handouts for hybrid cars and for coal plants with low emissions are also popular.

“The main effect of these schemes would be to raise the costs of cutting emissions. Much of the money doled out by the government would inevitably be wasted, adding to the overall bill for fighting climate change. Worse, such measures would risk distorting the carbon market, steering private capital as well as public money away from the cheapest technologies and towards those that have caught the eye of the politicians.”





	March 16, 2009 Energy and Environment: Around the Interwebs * Scientists Claim Earth Is Undergoing Natural Climate Shift * The gauntlet is thrown! * Watts Up With That?: If You Can’t Explain It, You Can’t Model It * Thar She Blows: Industry Forecast Calls for More Wind * How to fight climate change with cow dung * Climate Audit: Sudden Climate Change Syndrome * More Global Warming Pills to Swallow… * Sound the alarm! There’s a coal plant that could be built * Heartland Meeting of Climate “Realists” a Huge Success * Everyone freak out! It’s “The Climate Change Tipping Point” * High and dry on the California farm 7 Green Jobs Myths Kermit the Frog summed it up best, “It’s not easy being green.” Today, academics and researchers from four U.S. universities today released a joint study, Seven Myths About Green Jobs. The analysis takes an in depth look at widespread claims of green jobs and the new green economy and their potential impact on the economy, employment and the environment. Here’s a taste… Gallup Part 1: Pragmatic Americans: Promote Both New Energy Sources and Old Plenty of notable info from Gallup, but this is probably bad news for the hardcore environmentalits, who seem to lose their luster when tough economic times force clear-headed decisions… Gallup Part 2: Increased Number Think Global Warming Is “Exaggerated” Well, the timing couldn’t be more interesting. The Heartland Institute holds a conference where people discussed the overhyped nature of global warming, the New York Times implies that skepticism is dead, and now Gallup weighs in with this evidence: “Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated, a record-high 41% now say it is exaggerated. This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in more than a decade of Gallup polling on the subject.” It Doesn’t Take An Economist … Or Does It? The Economist has long been concerned by global warming. But as… well, an economics-minded paper, it certainly isn’t buying the cap-and-trade plan many U.S. politicians are selling: “Both the president and cap-and-trade’s supporters in Congress seem inclined to respond with subsidies for pet technologies that might help those hardest hit, or with mandates to cut emissions in particular ways. The president, for example, wants to double the amount of electricity that comes from renewables, meaning wind farms, solar-power plants and the like. Handouts for hybrid cars and for coal plants with low emissions are also popular. “The main effect of these schemes would be to raise the costs of cutting emissions. Much of the money doled out by the government would inevitably be wasted, adding to the overall bill for fighting climate change. Worse, such measures would risk distorting the carbon market, steering private capital as well as public money away from the cheapest technologies and towards those that have caught the eye of the politicians.”