Spanish study still making headlines
A study that suggests each new green job will cost 2.2 regular jobs is still making news.
Wed, Apr 15 2009 at 7:56 PM EST
Several weeks ago, I posted about a Spanish study that suggests green jobs will come at the cost of non-green jobs. The Bloomberg article that I cited in my Green jobs at what cost? post was from March 27. Fast forward to this week and I’m suddenly seeing a surge in news alerts about this Spanish study.
It seems that some (people, organizations, news networks) have decided to take this study and use it to discredit President Obama’s call for a green jobs movement. The latest news alert that came across my email is from Media Matters for America. The authors of the article, Fox News pushing questionable Spanish study on green jobs, are upset with Fox News reporter Shannon Bream’s piece on the study.
“Fox News' Shannon Bream touted a Spanish study on green jobs to cast doubt on President Obama's proposal to fund green energy, without noting criticism of the study or that the study's author is reportedly a founding member of a group "aimed at countering panic connected with global warming." Source: Media Matters for America
The authors of the article on the Media Matters blog go on to discuss more of the uproar that this study has caused here in the U.S. media market.
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Comments
Tracey de Morsella
05/24/2009 03:16 AM
The lead author, Gabriel Calzada Alvarez does not use a scientific approach to his "study." There are numerous flaws in his study and I do not think he is credible. to start, Caldaza uses falsified numbers in his study. The official estimate of green jobs created is 188,000, yet he says only 50,000 were created, and does not expain where that number comes from.
Spain's rates of unemplyment since it went democratic has consistently been extremely high. At the time of the study was.... More
