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* 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/>
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* 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.
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*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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Revision as of 19:19, June 3, 2008

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."[1]

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.
  • 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.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cato Scholar Comments on Warner-Lieberman Climate Security Act - May 30, 2008 - Patrick J. Michaels, senior fellow in environmental studies
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