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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.

*Now add in Lieberman-Warner. Say the U.S. actually does what the law says, though no one knows how to. The result is an additional 0.013 degrees (C) of "prevented" warming.<ref name=pmtrill/>

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