Links tagged “greenjobs”
- Obama so far fails to reach 20% of goal of 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015 – Concedes won’t reach goal
'The Obama administration concedes that it is not likely to reach sales of 1 million electric vehicles by next year.'
Posted January 26, 201312:13 PM by Marc Morano | Tags: climate depot, energy, greenjobs, lovelock, mkey, wind - Green Building Fail: U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Certification Fails to Increase Energy Efficiency
'Research shows that large privately-owned buildings in Washington D.C. certified under the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards, actually use more energy than uncertified buildings.'
- Report: Obama’s solar energy revolution failing to take hold
'Since 2009, only 20 solar power plants are on track to being built out of 365 applications to build such plants on federal lands, reports the Los Angeles Times. Only three large-scale facilities have gone online — one in Nevada and two in California. Furthermore, the first federal lands auction for solar developers last fall failed to attract a single bid.'
- Peter Glover: Dismantling The West’s Energy-Climate Paradigm — ‘The world’s leading Western economies have forsaken the best interests of the people’
- Another failed green car: ‘Hybrid sports car maker Fisker Automotive owes the DOE — that’s us taxpayers — $192 million but no one wants to buy the troubled company. It hasn’t built a car in over a year, according to Reuters, but has gone through $529 million in government funds’
- Watch Now: Climate Depot’s Morano on Fox News in Electric Car Debate: ‘In Europe, the UK and Ireland have more charging station than cars…Consumers do not want them’
- Only You Can Prevent Bad Weather In The Future: Obama claims ‘you can prevent bad weather 50 years from now, by simply saying lots of nasty things about the GOP & giving lots of taxpayer money to green energy scamsters who supported his campaign’
- Bjorn Lomborg on Earth Day: ‘In wealthy countries, most environmental indicators are getting better. We have cleaner air and cleaner water, and we suffer fewer environmental risks’
'But air and water pollution kill 6 million people each year and harm billions worldwide. Wealthy countries largely solved these problems through economic development. Poor countries should have the same opportunity to develop — so they, too, can have clean drinking water and switch to cleaner energy sources, instead of using dung and twigs for fuel'
- Bjorn Lomborg: ‘Germany Spends $110 Billion to Delay Global Warming by 37 Hours’
'The Germans are spending about $110 billion on subsidies for these solar panels,' said Lomborg. 'The net effect of all those investments will be to postpone global warming by 37 hours by the end of the century.'
'All those billions, for 37 hours delay?,' asked John Stossel.
'Yeah,' said Lomborg, 'so remember them in [the year] 2100 and say, 'Wow.''
- Green Guru James Lovelock laments modern green movement: ‘We never intended a fundamentalist Green movement that rejected all energy sources other than renewable’
Lovelock: 'I am an environmentalist & founder member of the Greens but I bow my head in shame at the thought that our original good intentions should have been so misunderstood & misapplied. We never intended...nor did we expect the Greens to cast aside our priceless ecological heritage because of their failure to understand that the needs of the Earth are not separable from human needs'
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Geologist: ‘The records written in the rocks’ reveal global cooling is due
Geologist Viv Forbes: "When the ice returns, derelict wind turbines & snow-bound solar panels will remain as stark tomb-stones in the graveyard of the failed Green religion."
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Why Environmentalists May Make This Whale Species Extinct – Green groups throw their once-sacred ‘precautionary principle’ to the wind(mills)
'Whale Of A Betrayal'
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Feds push ignorance defense for whale killing by offshore wind development
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An Inconvenient Truth for Environmentalists: Offshore Wind Endangers Whales