Here is some pretty remarkable news from Spain providing further affirmation of the findings of Prof. Gabriel Calzada about how “green jobs” mandates actually increase unemployment, pilloried here if without substance by Team Soros and the windmill welfare queens. It comes from an unlikely source.

Saturday’s El Mundo, Spain’s second largest newpaper, a center-lefty just a hair behind El Pais in readership and influence, carried an article which (translated) begins:

Clinton “‘Green’ energy has cost many jobs”
Clinton considers necessary the support of renewables but “transforming investments into new jobs.”
Former US President turned ecologist Bill Clinton is aware of the impact on employment by the development on renewable energy. Even though he is, as a former dweller of the White House, one of the most visible supporters in that industry, the US Democrat recognized yesterday that clean energies “have cost many jobs” in Spain.
Though without citing it directly, Clinton was acknowledging yesterday during his conference in Madrid that the study about the impact of public support on renewable energies, released by Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, has very valid conclusions. That report, which has received enormous coverage in US media and been used against Barack Obama’s energy policy, argues that every job in renewable energies created in Spain in the year 2000 has cost 571138 Euros and has been the cause of the loss of 2.2 jobs elsewhere in the economy.
Bill Clinton recognized yesterday that “this commitment to clean energy has cost many jobs” while at the same time calling for Spain to intensify investment in this industry to be able to turn high costs into new jobs.

What’s “ouch” en Espanol?

Anyway, here’s what’s on tap. First, Dr. Calzada had to face a star chamber at his university for uspetting so many well-connected people who are profiting from the windmill and solar syndicates (which have caused his country’s economy so much harm) — and the university is under pressure to label all future official studies of the school merely the product of whomever wrote them, so as not to risk angering donors further. Good grief, what have we allowed to happen in academia?

Now, I am told that the renewable producers association is coordinating a counteroffensive. (Perhaps the big full-page ad on page A15 of the Wall Street Journal today is part of it?) You remember them, the ones who called Calzada unpatriotic for letting the cat out of the bag and endangering the chances that the U.S. would buy in, thereby bailing them out.

Greens, start your engines of outrage: big business interests mobilizing with politicians to save their sinecures. I’m kidding, of course.

Following their usual M.O., the green establishment wanted to ignore Calzada’s findings at first. Now, that is clearly not sustainable. They are hemorraghing from the body blows of fact after fact hitting their racket. It also seems that Bjorn Lomborg´s column in the Wall Street Journal last week was very painful and, now, the vested interests have scrambled to fight back like . . . well, like an industry created entirely by taxpayer subsidies at risk of having those subsidies dry up.

Again, I’m no doctor, but I do believe I can diagnose a struck nerve.