“Oops.”
That might have been the cleanest word uttered once the Appalachian State University Energy Center staff realized its projections of new jobs and positive economic impact from climate change policies were wrong.
Not just a little wrong, but wrong by 900 percent ? a factor of 10! Those 325,000 new jobs promised last October? How about 32,000 new jobs instead? That $20 billion boost to the state economy? How about $2.2 billion instead?
As Roy Cordato points out here,
?That?s not just a rounding error. That?s a major
mistake that should call into question the researchers? competence. No
serious scholar would put out research that makes a mistake that large.?
