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The False Promise of Green Jobs / Bjorn Lomborg, Project syndicate, 10/02/2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/lomborg69/EnglishPolitical rhetoric has shifted away from the need to  respond to the “generational challenge” of climate change. Investment in  alternative energy technologies like solar and wind is no longer  peddled on environmental grounds. Instead, we are being told of the  purported economic payoffs, above all, the promise of so-called “green  jobs.” Unfortunately, that does not measure up to economic reality...