Analysis: Climate Bill is ‘Scientifically Meaningless’ – Temp Reduction By 2050 of Only 9/100 of one Degree F – Avoids only 5 years’ worth of warming by 2100!
By: Marc Morano - Climate DepotMay 6, 2009 7:43 AM
For Master Resource’s complete May 6, 2009 scientific analysis see: “Climate Impacts of Waxman-Markey (the IPCC-based arithmetic of no gain)“
Key Master Resource Excerpts: Mr. Chip Knappenberger finds that in the year 2050 with a 83% emissions reduction (the aspirational goal of Waxman-Markey, the beginning steps of which are under vigorous debate), the temperature reduction is nine hundredths of one degree Fahrenheit, or two years of avoided warming. A more realistic climate bill would be a fraction of this amount. […]
No matter how the economic and regulatory issues shake out, the bill will have virtually no impact on the future course of the earth’s climate. And this is even in its current “pure” form, without the inevitable watering down to come. […]
By the year 2050, the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill would result in a global temperature “savings” of about 0.05ºC regardless of the IPCC scenario used—this is equivalent to about 2 years’ worth of warming. By the year 2100, the emissions pathways become clearly distinguishable, and so to do the impacts of Waxman-Markey. Assuming the IPCC mid-range scenario (A1B) Waxman-Markey would result in a projected temperature rise of 2.847ºC, instead of 2.959ºC rise— a mere 0.112ºC temperature “savings.”
Under the IPCC’s high-emissions scenario, instead of a projected rise of 4.414ºC, Waxman-Markey limits the rise to 4.219ºC—a “savings” of 0.195ºC. In either case, this works out to about 5 years’ worth of warming. In other words, a full implementation and adherence to the emissions restrictions provisions described by the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill would result only in setting back the projected rise in global temperatures by a few years—a scientifically meaningless prospect.
For Master Resource’s complete May 6, 2009 scientific analysis see: “Climate Impacts of Waxman-Markey (the IPCC-based arithmetic of no gain)“
Recent Articles
- Sticking it to Putin! Spain Decrees Energy Austerity With Air Conditioning Limits – Set AC no lower than 81 F
- Watch: Morano talks Great Reset & the Davos Crowd on One America News – 2020 was the year ‘conspiracy realities outnumbered conspiracy theories’
- Seattle Times columnist: ‘High gas prices? They’re just what we need’ – ‘This is essential to preventing global catastrophe’
- Justin Hart: ‘Here’s what really happened with Covid’ – ‘Free speech, right to assembly, right to bodily autonomy, representative government all fell’
- The First Victims Of Biden’s ‘Incredible’ Government-Mandated Energy Transition: ‘Leading toward more human misery’
- Report: Deadly Summer Blackouts Inevitable As Renewables Struggle To Replace Reliable Energy
- Which is it?! 2022 claim: ‘Climate change increases milk production’ – But wait: 2014 claim: ‘Climate Change Could Lower Dairy Productivity’
- Climate activist Elizabeth Wathuti at Davos declares: ‘We have to fix this right now so that we can save all of humanity’
- GFS Analysis Shows Zero Warming: For Every Hot-Spot On The Planet, There’s Also Been A Cold-Spot
- Watch: Energy transition panel moderator in Davos asks attendees how many own electric cars – only 4 raise their hands – ‘Constitutes less than 5% of the persons sitting here in this room’
- Watch: UN Climate Envoy ambushed at DAVOS by reporter about gigantic carbon footprint of attendees
- Klaus Schwab At 2022 WEF: ‘The Future Is Built By Us, By A Powerful Community As You Here In This Room’
- Analysis debunks ‘false’ UN’s WMO ‘Key Climate Indicators’ report – Point-by-point rebuttal of ‘alarmist’ report
- HSBC suspended a senior executive for downplaying risks of climate change to investors & warning about ‘nut jobs’ promoting climate fears
- Alibaba Group pres J. Michael Evans boasts at World Economic Forum about developing an ‘individual carbon footprint tracker’ to monitor how you buy, eat, & travel
- ‘This claim is demonstrably false’: Scientists rebut NOAA sea-level projections – Reality Check: ‘Tide gauges clearly do not’ project acceleration of sea-level
- Watch: ‘How ESG & green ideology created the energy supply crisis’ – ‘Intended consequences’
- The Green New Deal in action! ‘High electric bill? Consider unplugging some devices around your home’
- Norwegian finance CEO Kjerstin Braathen: Energy transition will create energy shortages & inflation, but ‘that pain is actually worth it’
- Biden praises high gas prices as part of ‘incredible transition’ away from fossil fuels