The “whack-a-mole” study by a far-right-wing Spanish economist (and global warming denier) purporting to show that renewable energy is a job killer has been whacked once again.
Wielding the mallet this time was the prestigious National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). As reported yesterday in the blog Into the Wind, NREL’s analysis (available in pdf form, here) concludes:
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A study by a Spanish economist showing that as many as 20 jobs are lost for every “green job” created, has been criticized by the Spanish government as being “simplistic” and “reductionist” and based on “non-rigorous methodology.”
The study (here in pdf) by associate professor Gabriel Calzada, who has received funding from a variety of corporations including ExxonMobile, has been sited frequently by GOP members of Congress in opposing cap-and-trade provisions in a federal climate bill — most recently by Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) at a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on green jobs held this morning (July 21, 2009). .. continue reading ..
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Prof. Gabriel Calzada, "advisor to Spanish tourism industry" (Glenn Beck, left)
As House GOP opponents of Waxman-Markey continue trash-talking the climate bill, listen carefully for the name Gabriel Calzada, aka “the Spanish professor” as George Will called el gran profesor in a flim-flam of a column yesterday.
(Calzada should not be confused with The Spanish Prisoner, a venerable con-game that…on second thought, the two Spaniards are pretty much interchangeable.)
You’ll have to listen carefully, though, because key Republicans (Marsha Blackburn, TN, for example) are likely to use code, dropping oblique references to “the report from Spain.” (See p. 434.) .. continue reading ..
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