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Senate Bill 2191, the "Climate Security Act", sponsored by [[Joe Lieberman]] (I-CT) and [[John Warner]] (R-VA), is "going to cost trillions and do nothing measurable about [[climate change]] in the foreseeable future."<ref name=pmtrill> [http://www.cato.org/pressroom.php?display=ncomments&id=34]

Senate Bill 2191, the "Climate Security Act", sponsored by [[Joe Lieberman]] (I-CT) and [[John Warner]] (R-VA), is "going to cost trillions and do nothing measurable about [[climate change]] in the foreseeable future."<ref name=pmtrill> [http://www.cato.org/pressroom.php?display=ncomments&id=34 Cato Scholar Comments on Warner-Lieberman Climate Security Act] - May 30, 2008 - [[Patrick J. Michaels]], senior fellow in environmental studies</ref>

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Patrick Michaels wrote:

Patrick Michaels wrote:

* So, what do you get for your trillions? Climatically, nothing. Assume that all the nations of the world fulfill their obligations under the [[Kyoto Protocol]] (they won't!), which reduces global emissions about 5% below 1990 levels. That results in a "savings" of [[global warming]] of 0.07 degrees Celsius by 2050 — an amount too small to measure, as global temperatures vary on their own about twice that much from year-to-year.<ref name=pmtrill/>

* So, what do you get for your trillions? Climatically, nothing. Assume that all the nations of the world fulfill their obligations under the [[Kyoto Protocol]] (they won't!), which reduces global emissions about 5% below 1990 levels. That results in a "savings" of [[global warming]] of 0.07 degrees Celsius by 2050 — an amount too small to measure, as global temperatures vary on their own about twice that much from year-to-year.<ref name=pmtrill/>