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The EPA’s own model, ironically acronymed MAGICC, estimates that its
new policies will prevent a grand total of 0.018ºC in warming by 2100.
Obviously, that’s not enough to satisfy the steadily shrinking
percentage of Americans who think global warming is a serious problem.
MAGICC tells us that the futility of whatever Obama proposes for
existing plants will be statistically indistinguishable from making sure
that there are no new coal-fired ones. In fact, dropping the carbon
dioxide emissions from all sources of electrical generation to zero would reduce warming by a grand total of 0.04ºC by 2100. ......
You’d think the administration would see not just how futile these
policies are in addressing climate change but also how costly they are
politically. Some compelling analysis of polls shows that the
Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives in the 2010
election because, under Democratic leadership, it passed cap-and-trade,
which the Senate wisely stopped short of. In Australia, similar
policies favoring cap-and-trade cost the Liberal party its leader in
2009 and subsequently sacked two Labour prime ministers, Keven Rudd and
Julia Gillard.
Is this really the road the administration wants to go down in 2014?
If history is any guide, a pretty steep price will be paid on Election
Day — all for policies that will have no measurable effect on climate
change."
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