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We simply have to produce green jobs at any cost. Or at least it appears that way, judging by amount of government money earmarked for “green” jobs. Let’s take a quick look at some of the results in other countries that have implemented green-oriented policies.

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Replacing the current fleet of cars with clean, quiet electric cars will result in pollution-free, “green” commutes to downtown offices and suburban shopping malls…right? A new report from the Dog & Lemon Guide says otherwise.

Electric car enthusiasts need to accept, first and foremost, that the electricity used to power these cars often comes from carbon-emitting sources—like coal and natural gas. There is no such thing as a carbon-free vehicle. Instead, what electric vehicles do is move carbon emissions from nearby roads to distant electricity plants.

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Ontario may soon find itself part of the brewing protectionist battle over renewable energy subsidies. Though the protectionist debate is currently grabbing headlines in the US, as Congress decides on whether "Buy American" rules should be imposed on renewable-energy investments backed by the US government, it will likely soon trickle North of the Border as a result of the province’s Green Energy Act.
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Climate change policies by the British government are placing significant costs on British energy consumers. According to a report from researchers Ruth Lea and Jeremy Nicholson at the independent think tank Civitas, these costs are expected to drastically increase and will eventually erode the country’s shrinking industrial sector.
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United States Senate Report ‘Consensus’ Exposed: The CRU Controversy

House of Commons minutes of evidence taken before the Science and Technology Sub-Comittee: The disclosure of Climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia

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The feed-in-tariff being offered by the British government for clean energy should be the new savings account. One media outlet claims that a £12,500 investment in solar panels will pay a tax-free return of six to eight per cent per year—more than double what one would earn in a typical savings account.
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The Arctic ocean has more ice today that it did last year at this time, more than it had the previous year at this time or the year before that or the year before that. More ice, in fact that at any time since the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, using a sensor launched on a NASA satellite in mid 2002, began tracking the extent of Arctic ice.

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For the past two years Spanish solar companies working in once-gritty city of Puertollano were soaking up the rays of government subsidies—creating what one paper called a 21st century gold rush. But just as quickly as the rush began, the sun set on the subsidies, leaving the city dotted with low-quality, poorly designed solar plants. 

Now it’s the time of reckoning.
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The British aristocracy has seen its power and economic clout over the common folk dwindle through the 20th century. But that might be about to change, as recent green energy subsidies are helping British dukes and other aristocrats rake in profits at the expense of the country’s taxpayers.
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Penn State University has announced that it has begun an investigation of the work of Michael Mann, the director of its Earth System Science Center, following revelations contained in the Climategate documents that have emerged from East Anglia University in the UK. This decision follows close on the heels of a decision Saturday at East Anglia University to release climate change related data, a reversal of its previous stance. In addition, according to East Anglia’s press office, it will soon be announcing details of its own investigation.

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