Climate change and energy security not just threats

Climate change and energy security not just threats…they are opportunities

Jonathan Lash.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

Investors Business Daily has an editorial today regarding the Green Economy.  It’s worth reading.  Many think that the answer going forward is to become ‘green’.  For several months, President Obama has used Spain, Germany and Japan as countries we need to emulate to create green jobs.  A report from a Spanish economist says if Spain is any indication, Americans shouldn't be depending on green jobs to help the U.S. economy.  Gabriel Calzada Alvarez has released a study that says for every green job that's created with government funding, 2.2 regular jobs are lost and that only one in 10 green jobs wind up being permanent.  To read the Study, go here: http://www.juandemariana.org/

With billions for green programs in the USA are you concerned?

Obama’s spokesman dismissed the study out of hand:

Q Back on the President's speech today, a Spanish professor, Gabriel [Calzada] Álvarez, says after conducting a study, that in his country, creating green jobs has actually cost more jobs than it has led to: 2.2 jobs lost, he says, for every job created. And he has issued a report that specifically warns the President not to try and follow Spain's example.

MR. GIBBS: It seems weird that we're importing wind turbine parts from Spain in order to build -- to meet renewable energy demand here if that were even remotely the case.

Q Is that a suggestion that his study is simply flat wrong?

MR. GIBBS: I haven't read the study, but I think, yes.

Q Well, then. (Laughter.)

IBD Editorial

In other CC/GW news, it’s not CO2, it’s soot, supposedly the cause of global cooling.  I’m confused…

KOHLUA, INDIA — “It’s hard to believe that this is what’s melting the glaciers,” said Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, as he weaved through a warren of mud brick huts, each containing a mud cook stove pouring soot into the atmosphere.

In Kohlua, in central India, with no cars and little electricity, emissions of carbon dioxide, the main heat-trapping gas linked to global warming, are near zero. But soot — also known as black carbon — from tens of thousands of villages like this one in developing countries, is emerging as a major and previously unappreciated source of global climate change.

While carbon dioxide may be the No. 1 contributor to rising global temperatures, scientists say, black carbon has emerged as an important No. 2, with recent studies estimating that it is responsible for 18 percent of the planet’s warming, compared with 40 percent for carbon dioxide. Decreasing black carbon emissions would be a relatively cheap way to significantly rein in global warming — especially in the short term, climate experts say. Replacing primitive cooking stoves with modern versions that emit far less soot could provide a much-needed stop-gap, while nations struggle with the more difficult task of enacting programs and developing technologies to curb carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.

http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/

A Green Recovery program that spends $100 billion over two years would create 2 million new jobs

A $300 billion investment in America’s economic and energy future over 10 years would produce 3.3 million jobs and a $1.43 trillion gain in GDP.

A $300 billion investment in America’s economic and energy future over 10 years would produce 932,000 of the jobs are in energy diversity.

A $300 billion investment in America’s economic and energy future over 10 years would produce 900,000 jobs in industries of the future — hybrid cars, energy efficient appliances.

A $300 billion investment in America’s economic and energy future over 10 years would produce 827,000 jobs in high performance buildings

A $300 billion investment in America’s economic and energy future over 10 years would produce 679,000 jobs in infrastructure investment.

Huh!