Environmental-union-politico alliances use their clout to promote new energy, economic vision. Will it create jobs, without impacting existing jobs, living standards and economic opportunities? 

The quest to be “green” has spawned countless proposals, programs, laws and advertising campaigns. In Washington, DC a “Green Jobs Advisory Council” is promoting policies for green buildings, energy efficiency, renewable energy, city infrastructure, and lower carbon emissions.

Better sequencing of traffic lights speeds commuters to their workplaces, saves gasoline, cuts pollution, and reduces accidents. Better insulation reduces energy expenditures, and pays back investments in a few years. Concentrated juice, detergent and other products reduce packaging, shipping and storage costs.

Redesigned systems and energy-efficient computers and servers mean big savings in power-hungry data centers that facilitate banking, You Tube, Internet searches and modern business operations.

Christopher Monckton of Brenchley replies to a True Believer in the Canadian Civil Service.

Dear Sir Humphrey -

The "Abundance of scientific statements" that you mention as justification of your belief in 'global warming' is no sound or logical basis for deciding or believing anything. The question is whether the scientific statements have any rational justification, and whether those making them are in effect making statements that are political rather than scientific, rent-seeking rather than objective. After all, this is the age of reason (or it was). Therefore, one should not accord to "scientists" the status of infallible high priests merely because they mumble a hieratic language with which one is unfamiliar. There is clear, compelling evidence that many of the major conclusions of the IPCC, your new religion's constantly-changing Holy Book, are based on evidence that has been fabricated. The "hockey stick" graph that purported to abolish the mediaeval warm period is just one example. So let me try to lure you away from feeble-minded, religious belief in the Church of "Global Warming" and back towards the use of the faculty of reason.

Mainlining oil will have serious consequences to your health

The reason is contained in the very text of the ad.  It opens with a child playing with building blocks, and says, “The solution to our climate crisis seems simple; repower America with wind and solar.”  (Emphasis mine)  “Seems” is a great word for Mr. Gore’s message.  It does seem quite simple to think that all we need to do is build more solar collectors and wind farms, and viola!  Energy independence!  That seems wonderfully simple.  And the “we/me” simply has to demand it, and it will be so.

CCF Note: A day early and a dollar richer. Our master of global warming ceremonies (or is that scaremonies) at The Daily Bayonet brings us another week of climate change debunking. And he does it all with wit and repartee!

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Here I am a day early again, tomorrow is uncertain so I have to do the post today.  It gives you an extra few hours to read it before the weekend anyway, and provides an excellent antidote to actual work on Friday. 

Thanks are in order to a few of you that sent links, you'll see them here today.  Also, welcome to JunkScience.com readers; Steven Milloy was generous enough to point in this direction and lots of you came to have a peek at last week's round-up.  I hope you return each week and join with me in pointing out the silliness of the warmists; or the weekly global hottie, whichever you prefer.

So grab your beverage of choice and belly up to this weeks sumptuous buffet of denier linkage, served with the merest hint of snark for your entertainment and edification.

Global-warming PSA can cause tears, guilt, and unexpected phone calls to Mommy

Taking a page from the Bambi's-mother-getting-shot playbook of manipulative animation, advertising agency McCann commissioned a global-warming PSA for Portugal's nature and conservation association, Quercus. The spot features cute animals rendered with high-quality computer animation, all preparing to off themselves because of global warming. You might want to get out the hankie for this one: