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William F. Jasper<\/strong> President Obama was playing to his most extreme \u201cgreen\u201d constituency in his\u00a0climate and energy speech at Georgetown University<\/a>\u00a0today,\u00a0blasting global warming skeptics as \u201cflat-earth society\u201d ostriches with their heads in the sand. President Obama said he does not have \u201cpatience for anyone who denies that this problem is real.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t have time for a meeting of the flat-Earth society,\u201d Obama said. \u201cSticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it\u2019s not going to protect you from the coming storm.\u201d\u00a0Obama claimed that the call for urgent action to stem the threat of global warming is based on the \u201coverwhelming judgment of science, of chemistry, of physics, and millions of measurements.\u201d<\/p>\n The president apparently has not gotten the memos; his Oval Office staff must be keeping him in the dark concerning very important recent developments in climate science and even more significant developments in climate and energy policies. As wereported yesterday<\/a>,\u00a0some of the leading voices in the global warming alarmist choir have been admitting that the climate catastrophes predicted by the computer models have not materialized and that the alleged \u201cscientific consensus\u201d is a fraud. The influential British journal,\u00a0The Economist<\/em>, suggested in\u00a0an article on June 20<\/a>,\u00a0that \u201cthe public has been systematically deceived\u201d for years with all this talk of certainty and consensus about dire consequences attributed to man-made, or anthropogenic, global warming (AGW), and the supposed urgent need for drastic, costly, painful public policies to address the \u201ccrisis.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe planet is warming. Human activity is contributing to it,\u201d Obama said in his Georgetown speech.<\/p>\n The president seems to be unaware that even top climate alarmists have admitted that there has been no evidence of global warming for at least the past 15 years. This absence of warming has been the source of much head scratching, debating, and theorizing in the climate activist circles. As we have reported,\u00a0the UK Met Office<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Professor Phil Jones<\/a>,\u00a0the former director of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, are among the many alarmists who have been forced to acknowledge the reality of the lack of any warming trend or crisis.\u00a0The New American\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0recent articles (see below) on the false consensus list dozens of top scientists who have defected from the alarmist ranks, and provide links showing literally thousands of scientists contest the warming theories President Obama champions as the basis for his energy policy proposals.<\/p>\n The president\u2019s energy program, outlined in this\u00a0White House Fact Sheet<\/a>\u00a0and detailed in\u00a0\u201cThe President\u2019s Climate Action Plan,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0both released today, would place onerous new restrictions on\u00a0coal fired power plants and other fossil fuels and would direct billions more dollars into funding \u201crenewable energy\u201d sources, such as solar and wind. As we have reported, these are policies that have already proven to be enormously wasteful here in the United States, and in Germany and other European nations (seehere<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>) have proven to be disastrous.<\/p>\n Spain has already shown us the destruction that can be wrought by the kind of government-mandated \u201cgreen jobs\u201d President Obama is proposing. Dr. Gabriel Calzada \u00c3\u0081lvarez is an Associate Professor at King Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain, where he teaches Applied Economics at the Environmental Science Faculty. In March 2009, along with two colleagues from the same University, Dr. Calzada released a major study on the Spanish experience with \u201cgreen jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In\u00a0testimony<\/a>\u00a0to the U.S. Congress, before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, Prof. Calzada presented highlights from the study, including these sobering facts:<\/p>\n – For every 1 green job financed by Spanish taxpayers, 2.2 jobs were lost as an opportunity cost.<\/p>\n – Only 1 out of 10 green job contracts were in maintenance and operation of already installed plants, and most of the rest of the working positions are only sustainable in an expansive environment related to high subsidies.<\/p>\n – Since 2000, Spain has committed \u00e2\u201a\u00ac571,138 ($753,778) per each \u201cgreen job,\u201d<\/p>\n – Those programs resulted in the destruction of nearly 110,500 jobs.<\/p>\n – Each \u201cgreen\u201d megawatt installed on average destroyed 5.39 jobs elsewhere in the economy, ?and in the case of solar photovoltaics, the number reaches 8.99 jobs per megawatt hour installed.<\/p>\n \u201cSpain has already attempted to lead the world in a clean energy transformation,\u201d Dr. Calzada told the congressmen. \u201cBut our research shows that Spain\u2019s policies were economically destructive. When the president of a country with a relatively low unemployment rate like the US decides to learn how to create jobs from a country like Spain with the highest unemployment rate among developed countries, it should be in a field where that country has a demonstrable track record of job creation. Unfortunately, this is not the case of job creation in Spain through public support for renewable energy.\u201d<\/p>\n James Lovelock<\/a>,\u00a0considered by many to be one of the \u201cfounding father\u201d scientists of the environmentalist movement in the U.K., has been unsparing in his criticism of wind power and his former global warming alarmism, which he now says grossly exaggerated the non-crisis of climate change.\u00a0Professor Fritz Vahrenholt,<\/a>\u00a0one of Germany\u2019s most famous \u201cgreens\u201d and a longtime AGW alarmist and champion of renewable energies, has likewise admitted to having been very, very wrong on these matters. Like Lovelock and\u00a0many other leading scientists,<\/a>\u00a0Vahrenholt is calling for an end to the climate change hysteria and an end to the \u201cgreen\u201d lobby attacks on conventional fossil fuels.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Myth of Green Energy Jobs: The European Experience,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by the American Enterprise Institute, is one of many reports that\u00a0surveys the economic and environmental disasters caused by renewable energy policies in the EU. This report focuses on the renewables follies in Denmark, Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n Even MSM organs such as\u00a0USA Today<\/em><\/a>, which normally hew to the climate catastrophist line, have reported on Europe\u2019s renewables debacle. Instead of trying to ridicule renowned scientist skeptics by recycling Al Gore\u2019s tired and discredited quips about scientific consensus and \u201cflat-earth society\u201d opponents, President Obama\u2019s speechwriters would serve him better by acquainting him with more of the latest climate research and analyses of the failed energy policies of those countries that have already gone down the road the president is proposing for us.<\/p>\n <!– <\/p>\n –><\/p>\n This article was posted: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 6:10 am<\/p>\n Tags: government corruption<\/a>, science<\/a>, weather<\/a><\/p>\n
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