Waxman-Markey: A completely futile legislative exercise
World Climate Report
May 21, 2009
EXCERPT:
As we have discussed here, and as has been discussed elsewhere, it is straightforward to determine the likely climate impact from legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Yesterday we showed how little climate impact the proposed national fuel efficiency standards would have, today we turn our attention to the climate impact of the proposed Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act—which despite the name, is squarely aimed at attempting to mitigate future global climate change.
What we are interested in is this: if the U.S. is successful in meeting the greenhouse gas emissions reductions as prescribed in the Waxman-Markey legislation (ultimately a 83% reduction in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050), how much global warming would be averted?
The best way to answer this question would be to use a general circulation model but they are costly to run (both in dollars and in time). Instead, we’ll use the Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse-gas Induced Climate Change, or MAGICC,
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Waxman hasn’t read the act under his name. I am looking for it and intend to.
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