Category: Climate & Energy

While Govs. Rick Perry and Mitt Romney have dabbled in state-funding of green energy, Wall Street Journal columnist Kim Strassel says Herman Cain has the best approach. Continue reading Strassel: The GOP's Solyndra Problem

Investment in so-called “clean-tech” was down — before the Solyndra failure. But prominent clean-tech venture capitalist Vinod Khosla remains undaunted. Continue reading 'Clean-tech' investor Khosla: What, me worry?

It’s apparently not enough that Navy SEALs have to hope that their equipment works and that their commanders are prudent; now they’ll have to pray for sunny days, too. Continue reading SEAL team in Afghanistan to go green

This will get Steven Chu’s attention. Continue reading GOP yard sale: Bill to sell Energy Department HQ introduced

Physics professor Howard Hayden offers the editors of Physics Today a simple algebraic exercise to alleviate climate alarmism. Continue reading Hayden: All you need is elementary algebra

Congrats to the Michigan Farm Bureau for successfully combatting “A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids,” a book that was being marketed to Michigan school districts for seventh graders. (Kalamazoo Gazette)

Nature reports that extant strains of Yersinia pestis are very similar to the Black Death bacterium that wiped out half of Europe in the 14th century — meaning that environment ought to be at the forefront of concern for the plague’s potential return. Continue reading Global warming to bring back Black Death?

“… $15 million went to train workers in skills such as solar-panel installation, but 62% of that program’s alumni remain jobless, according to the [California] Employment Development Department… Nationwide, jobs related to energy efficiency rose to 2.7 million people last year, up 27% from 2003, compared with overall job growth of 33%, according to the Brookings Institution.” (Wall Street Journal)

“The Department of Labor has spent $162 million on its own green jobs program, which has found steady work for just 1,336 people as of June. That’s just 2% of what the program targeted.” (Investors Business Daily)