CLIMATE SCIENCE UNSCATHED BY FLAP - MIT scholar Chris Mooney:  "The central lesson of Climategate is not that climate science is corrupt. The leaked e-mails do nothing to disprove the scientific consensus on global warming. Instead, the controversy highlights t ... Read more CLIMATE SCIENCE UNSCATHED BY FLAP - MIT scholar Chris Mooney:  "The central lesson of Climategate is not that climate science is corrupt. The leaked e-mails do nothing to disprove the scientific consensus on global warming. Instead, the controversy highlights that in a world of blogs, cable news and talk radio, scientists are poorly equipped to communicate their knowledge and, especially, to respond when science comes under attack.  Read more here ...  Read less

EMAIL FLAP DOESN'T CHANGE FACTS - In the Washington Post, scientist Michael Mann writes: "The scientific consensus regarding human-caused climate change is based on decades of work by thousands of scientists around the world. The National Academy of Sciences has con ... Read more EMAIL FLAP DOESN'T CHANGE FACTS - In the Washington Post, scientist Michael Mann writes: "The scientific consensus regarding human-caused climate change is based on decades of work by thousands of scientists around the world. The National Academy of Sciences has concluded that the scientific case is clear. As world leaders work in Copenhagen to try to combat this problem, some critics are seeking to cloud the debate and confuse the public." Read more here ... Read less

STOLEN CLIMATE EMAILS PROVE NOTHING - From Union of Concerned Scientists:  Media outlets are getting the story wrong. These emails don't demonstrate anything wrong with global warming data. The manufactured controversy over emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit has generated a lot more heat ... Read more STOLEN CLIMATE EMAILS PROVE NOTHING - From Union of Concerned Scientists:  Media outlets are getting the story wrong. These emails don't demonstrate anything wrong with global warming data. The manufactured controversy over emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit has generated a lot more heat than light over the past two weeks.   UCS's analysis of the emails and the debate surrounding them aims to correct popular misconceptions about what the emails say, put them in scientific context and explain the importance of scientific integrity. Read less

AEI/ACCF ECONOMIC ALARMISM ON HILL - Montana Senator Max Baucus, the lone Democratic vote on the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee against the Boxer/Kerry climate bill, held a November 10th hearing on climate legislation an ... Read more AEI/ACCF ECONOMIC ALARMISM ON HILL - Montana Senator Max Baucus, the lone Democratic vote on the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee against the Boxer/Kerry climate bill, held a November 10th hearing on climate legislation and its impact on jobs.   It was a platform for more of the same unsound “Chicken Little” warnings for which the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the American Council on Capital Formation (ACCF) are already famous.  AEI has a long track record of distorting the science and solutions of climate change. Its arguments tend to de-emphasize the environmental and economic risks of climate change, exaggerate the costs of addressing the problem and question the value of putting a policy in place at all, as in this recent Wall Street Journal oped by AEI fellow Steven Hayward. ACCF has partnered twice with the National Association of Manufacturers to produce and disseminate distorted economic analyses that overstate the costs of climate legislation and which have been prominently featured at US Chamber of Commerce-organized “forums” on climate over the past year. The ACCF/NAM studies have been credibly debunked more than once ...   Read less

BOGUS "ENERGY CITIZENS" JOBS STAT - As MediaMatters notes:  "On October 15, 2009, EnergyCitizens.org ran a full page ad in the Washington Post falsely c ... Read more BOGUS "ENERGY CITIZENS" JOBS STAT - As MediaMatters notes:  "On October 15, 2009, EnergyCitizens.org ran a full page ad in the Washington Post falsely claiming clean energy and American power legislation would 'cost two million American jobs.' In reality, an American investment in clean energy technology would create up to 1.9 million green jobs across every single state."  Read more here ...  Read less

CHAMBER BLAMES THE MEDIA -- - Faced with growing defections over its extremism on climate/clean jobs legislation, the U.S. Chamber is trying to shift the blame to the media and other parties.  See what the Atlant ... Read more CHAMBER BLAMES THE MEDIA -- - Faced with growing defections over its extremism on climate/clean jobs legislation, the U.S. Chamber is trying to shift the blame to the media and other parties.  See what the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Boston Globe, New York Times and San Jose Mercury News think of the Chamber's approach to climate issues ... Read less

CHAMBER TRIES TO BACKPEDAL ON CLIMATE DENIAL - After losing a number of key members over its extremist position on clean energy legislation, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is trying in vain to rewrite history to suggest, among other things, that it has not engaged in climate change science denial ... ... Read more CHAMBER TRIES TO BACKPEDAL ON CLIMATE DENIAL - After losing a number of key members over its extremist position on clean energy legislation, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is trying in vain to rewrite history to suggest, among other things, that it has not engaged in climate change science denial ... Read less

BIG OIL'S SPANISH "STUDY" MEDIA TOUR IN U.S. - The Big Oil-backed Institute for Energy Research is trotting out this week in the U.S. the Spanish author of a widely discredited attack on "green jobs" and wind power.  As the American Wind Energy Association points out:   "The methodology used by the Spanish researchers has been widely critic ... Read more BIG OIL'S SPANISH "STUDY" MEDIA TOUR IN U.S. - The Big Oil-backed Institute for Energy Research is trotting out this week in the U.S. the Spanish author of a widely discredited attack on "green jobs" and wind power.  As the American Wind Energy Association points out:   "The methodology used by the Spanish researchers has been widely criticized.  The study is largely based on assumptions, few of them documented. The report does not point to any job losses that are directly attributable to investment in renewable energy. As the (Wall Street) Journal reported in its energy and environment blog: ‘The study doesn’t actually identify those jobs allegedly destroyed by renewable-energy spending. What the study actually says is that government spending on renewable energy is less than half as efficient at job creation as private-sector spending.’”  Read more here … Read less

CEI'S BOGUS TREASURY MEMO SPIN - The clean-energy opponents at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) are back from their August vacation with a new "smoking gun" document that they say reveals the true costs of federal climate policy. But the claims about the suppo ... Read more CEI'S BOGUS TREASURY MEMO SPIN - The clean-energy opponents at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) are back from their August vacation with a new "smoking gun" document that they say reveals the true costs of federal climate policy. But the claims about the supposed "Treasury memo" don't really measure up to what’s in it... One thing is clear:  Opponents of clean energy legislation are claiming this memo says things it doesn't.  Read more here from Pete Altman and Dave Hawkins at NRDC ... and see this item at Media Matters and Wonk Room's take on the subject ... Read less

U.S. TRASHES SPANISH JOBS - The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory has weighed in with a white paper that finds - exactly as other reviews have - that the Spanish "green jobs study"  used a questionable methodology, lacks transparency and supporting data, and ignored several pieces of ke ... Read more U.S. TRASHES SPANISH JOBS - The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory has weighed in with a white paper that finds - exactly as other reviews have - that the Spanish "green jobs study"  used a questionable methodology, lacks transparency and supporting data, and ignored several pieces of key information. But, in NREL's own words:

"The recent report from King Juan Carlos University deviates from the traditional research methodologies used to estimate jobs impacts. In addition, it lacks transparency and supporting statistics, and fails to compare RE technologies with comparable energy industry metrics. It also fails to account for important issues such as the role of government in emerging markets, the success of RE exports in Spain, and the fact that induced economic impacts can be attributed to RE deployment. Finally, differences in policy are significant enough that the results of analysis conducted in the Spanish context are not likely to be indicative of workforce impacts in the United States or other countries."    Read more here.