JoNova (Australia)
Welcome to the fairy-land world where we try to control the weather with our electrical generation sources.
Obama’s new plan to stop storms and hold back the tide could make the
US poorer by as much as $2.5 trillion dollars, but will not make any
difference to the global climate even if it is carried out (somehow) and
even if the highly immature, overly politicized science is “right”
(despite the evidence). The plan is for the U.S. to cut overall
electrical power plant emissions by 32 percent by 2030, compared to 2005
levels.
This “ambitious” goal is purely symbolic. Here’s why. Electrical power plants make 37% of US emissions, which are about one-fifth of global human emissions, which are 4% of total CO2 emissions globally. So a 32% cut in US electrical emissions will result in a 0.1% cut in total global CO2 emissions
(at best)*. If the Obama/EPA plan is “successful” and if the IPCC are
right, Paul Knappenberger and Pat Michaels estimate that Obama’s new
plan will cool the world by an unmeasurable 0.02°C by 2100."
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