Don't Get Excited About "Green Jobs"

It turns out that they are not as environmentally sound and economically viable as the greens of all stripes want us to believe:

As predicted was inevitable, today the Spanish newspaper La Gaceta runs with a full-page article fessing up to the truth about Spain’s “green jobs” boondoggle, which happens to be the one naively cited by President Obama no less than eight times as his model for the United States. It is now out there as a bust, a costly disaster that has come undone in Spain to the point that even the Socialists admit it, with the media now in full pursuit.
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La Gaceta boldly exposes the failure of the Spanish renewable policy and how Obama has been following it. The headline screams: “Spain admits that the green economy as sold to Obama is a disaster.”

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The words like "disaster" or "una ruina" speak for themselves. And so are the numbers: as the study shows, each green job created costs more than 2.2 traditional jobs.

The reaction of the green energy proponents in the government and in the corporate world clearly shows that they have no scientific and economic arguments in defense of their "green" programs. Instead of challenging Dr. Calzada's study in an open debate, the government tries to pressure the university into ousting him, while the green energy company, (in mafia's best traditions,) threatens Dr. Calzada with a dismantled bomb:

The bomb threat is just the latest intimidation Dr. Calzada has faced since releasing his report and following up with articles in Expansion (a Spanish paper similar to the Financial Times). A minister from Spain’s Socialist government called the rector of King Juan Carlos University — Dr. Calzada’s employer — seeking Calzada’s ouster. Calzada was not fired, but he was stripped of half of his classes at the university. The school then dropped its accreditation of a summer university program with which Calzada’s think tank — Instituto Juan de Mariana — was associated.

Additionally, the head of Spain’s renewable energy association and the head of its communist trade union wrote opinion pieces in top Spanish newspapers accusing Calzada of being “unpatriotic” — they did not charge him with being incorrect, but of undermining Spain by daring to write the report.

Their reasoning? If the skepticism that Calzada’s revelations prompted were to prevail in the U.S., Spanish industry would face collapse should U.S. subsidies and mandates dry up.

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So much about the settled science and the "green economy".