Green jobs are a waste of space, a waste of money, a lie, a chimera. You know that. I know that. We’re familiar with the report by Dr Gabriel Calzada Alvarez of the Rey Juan Carlos University in Spain which shows that for every “green job” that is created another 2.2 jobs are LOST in the real economy.
We also know that alternative energy is a fraud – only viable through enormous government (ie taxpayer subsidy) and utterly incapable of answering anything more than a fraction of our energy needs. As Shannon Love puts it here:
Here’s a fact you won’t see mentioned in the public policy debate over “alternative” energy:
There exists no alternative energy source, no combination of alternative energy sources, and no system of combinations of alternative energy sources that can fully replace a single, coal fired electric plant built with 1930s era technology.
Nada.
Zero.
Zilch.
So why are our political leaders setting out quite deliberately to deceive us?
There have many disgustingly revealing stories this week about the dubious practices of the Climate Fear Promotion lobby, but for me the most damning of all was Chris Horner’s scoop at Pajamas Media concerning high level cover-ups by the Obama administration. Like his soul mate Dave Cameron on this side of the pond, Obama finds the narrative about global warming so compelling and moving that he doesn’t want it spoiled with any inconvenient truths regarding green jobs and green energy.
Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has discovered that when two European reports came out – the Spanish one above; and another one from Denmark on the inefficiency of wind farms – the Obama administration recruited left-wing lobbyists to attack them.
After two studies refuted President Barack Obama’s assertions regarding the success of Spain’s and Denmark’s wind energy programs, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveals the Department of Energy turned to George Soros and to wind industry lobbyists to attack the studies.
Via the FOIA request, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has learned that the Department of Energy — specifically the office headed by Al Gore’s company’s former CEO, Cathy Zoi — turned to George Soros’ Center for American Progress and other wind industry lobbyists to help push Obama’s wind energy proposals.
The FOIA request was not entirely complied with, and CEI just filed an appeal over documents still being withheld. In addition to withholding many internal communications, the administration is withholding communications with these lobbyists and other related communications, claiming they constitute “inter-agency memoranda.” This implies that, according to the DoE, wind industry lobbyists and Soros’s Center for American Progress are — for legal purposes — extensions of the government.
We see something similar going on here in Britain. The taxpayer funded Quango The Carbon Trust is continually pumping out propaganda on behalf of the powerful wind energy lobby; as too is the BBC which cheerfully funded a political broadcast (masquerading as a cri de coeur) by Green activist George Moonbat on its The Daily Politics show earlier this week. In December it was discovered that civil servants working for the government had suppressed evidence that wind farms damage health and disrupt sleep.
Do our political leaders think we’re stupid? Or so supine and malleable that we simply won’t mind being lied to if it’s for our “own good”?
Been reading your site off and on, brilliant points. I am so fucking tired of this kind of thing. The pot at the end of the rainbow is shit and they know it. And yet they keep searching, and forcing us to search as well. Fuck them, I am done searching.
“Tim says:
March 8, 2010 at 7:22 am
Been reading your site off and on, brilliant points. I am so f***ing tired of this kind of thing. The pot at the end of the rainbow is s**t and they know it. And yet they keep searching, and forcing us to search as well. F**k them, I am done searching.”
I agree! But just without the swearing
I agree with John of Kent’s agreeing with Tim, but with even more swearing. Actually, it’s not swearing at all. It’s foul language.
good afternoon, James.
I happened to catch this item via Drudgereport. Bet you get a kick (and maybe a column) out of it…
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jdSzbOeYw2fRy2g-N8afCNxbsu6wD9EAEB480
And I agree with Tim and John and Ed, in similar language, but more severe, several far exceeding four letters. There should be Nobel Prizes and Scientific Awards for arrogance, ignorance, and chicanery.
Gus Walters U.S.A.
It has always been a $ fraud from inception ’til now. I applaud James for his candor and honest reporting. The nonsense has gone on long enough. Real jobs are needed. Industry, not fake energy must replenish the private sector. Fraud only takes you to the next fraud. The cycles are short (exposure), the truth will prevail (diligent citizen watchdogs), and in the global scheme (and it is a scheme) of things, energy can be developed without the heavy tax base that presently exists. Why is it bureaucrats get the big bucks? Duh?
Here, enjoy a foul joke on my behalf:
A Marine squad was marching north of Fallujah when they came upon an Iraqi terrorist who was badly injured and unconscious.
On the opposite side of the road was an American Marine in a similar but less serious state.
The Marine was conscious and alert and as first aid was given to both men, the squad leader asked the injured Marine what had happened.
The Marine reported, “I was heavily armed and moving north along the highway here, and coming south was a heavily armed insurgent. We saw each other and both took cover in the ditches along the road.
I yelled to him that Saddam Hussein was a miserable, lowlife scum bag who got what he
deserved. And he yelled back that Barack Obama is a lying, good-for-nothing, left
wing Commie who isn’t even an American.
So I said that Osama Bin Laden dresses and acts like a frigid, mean-spirited
lesbian! He retaliated by yelling, “Oh yeah? Well, so does Nancy Pelosi!”
“And, there we were, in the
middle of the road, shaking hands, when
a truck hit us.”
Nice one Tim.
I agree with James, Tim, Ed, and Gus.
I also agree that we should moderate the swearing…
And that Al Gore is a stupid cunt.
I agree that Al Gore is a cnut, but he is not stupid. He has already made Millions of $ from AGW and is bordering (if not already) on being the first “green” billionaire.
By the way, to add to the above tales of woe about windmils, they are now killing an estimated million birds a year- often endangered and beautiful birds or prey. So how is that supposed to be green????