*UPDATE* Under Scrutiny, Stanford Professor Deletes Data Showing Job Loss from Renewables Transition
Wednesday January 13, 2016
UPDATE (1:40pm CT, 1/13/2016): Dr. Mark Jacobson has admitted to deleting the data tables showing a net loss of long-term jobs.
@PhelimMcAleer All real data used in papers still there.Dead non-real #s removed only because @saeverley abuse by falsely claiming were real
— Mark Z. Jacobson (@mzjacobson) January 13, 2016
Dr. Jacobson claims that the data cited by Energy In Depth were “not real,” but rather just “test” numbers that were not associated with the published study. That convenient explanation is not found in the original worksheet that housed the net long-term job loss numbers, nor is it listed on Dr. Jacobson’s website. However, a press release from Stanford University last summer, which announced the publication of Dr. Jacobson’s study, encouraged visitors to “visit Jacobson’s website and The Solutions Project” for more information.
That same website included the data that Energy In Depth cited.
—Original post, January 13, 2016—
A Stanford professor who claims a transition to 100 percent renewables would be a major job creator has scrubbed his website of data showing significant long-term job losses from such a plan, according to a new review by Energy In Depth. Online records show that the professor, Dr. Mark Jacobson, edited his documents just hours after an Energy In Depth report revealed how the transition to 100 percent renewables would cause a net loss of more than 1.2 million long-term jobs, based on data pulled directly from Dr. Jacobson’s website.
The decision to alter his own data could raise additional questions about Dr. Jacobson’s plan for a 100 percent re...