Here’s a picture that’s worth many thousands of words:
That’s what I call “A Convenient Truth”….
(H/T - Tim Blair and his international band of minions….)
“Climate Change” Quote-of-Note
Another Little Gem Picked Up at Tuesday's ICCC in Washington....
We’re seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point - they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn’t ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there’s a lot of tundra that’s being held down by that ice cap.
– Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), 13 April 2009
Rhapsody in Green: The Nightmare Continues
An Equal Mixture of Foolishness and Corruption....
Alert readers may have heard recent mention of a new report that has come out of Spain, analyzing the outcomes of that country’s big “green energy” drive - a drive that is frequently held up to us as a model for emulation.
The results have been - to say the least - not only disappointing, but very negative. The salient economic highlights are findings that: 1) For every four “green” jobs created, nine other jobs were destroyed; 2) Among those “green” jobs, only 1 in 10 was a real, full-time job. None of this is a surprise; “alternative energy” requires overly-massive use of scarce resources - resources that can only be taken away from better and more productive activities.
But rather than belabor the point, it’s simply easier to point interested readers to the report itself. You can find it here; that link takes you directly to the .pdf file to download. The report is 51 pages long and begins with a good executive summary - and the file size is only 667kB, so it should download in a jiffy.
But when it comes to doing a circuit of the latest goings-on in the world of The Green Nightmare…. we’re just getting started.
The “Green Dream” is rapidly devolving into a “Green Nightmare” of zero-results foolishness, corruption, rent-seeking, and political destabilization. Good intentions do not obviate bad results - as physics has this strange habit of always winning. And those bad results are spilling out in all sorts of directions that go far beyond the mere supplying of energy.
Much, much more below the fold….
