Close enough for government work:
Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., have managed to write a cap-and-trade energy bill that should be greeted with guffaws from both believers and skeptics of man-made global warming. At a cost of billions of dollars and millions of jobs across America, the proposal would produce virtually no reduction in global temperatures even after being in force for decades. Using the MAGICC/SCENGEN climate model originally developed for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and assuming no other nation adopts the same measure, climate researcher Paul Knappenberger found that Kerry-Lieberman would reduce the average global temperature 0.077 degrees Fahrenheit by 2050, compared with what it would be if the bill were not adopted. That is one-fifth of one degree, which, as Knappenberger notes on the MasterResource blog, is a "scientifically meaningless reduction."
Man, we gotta get all those clowns out of office before they do so much damage it can never be undone.
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Agreed, Leo.
We're gettin' a might too close to that tipping point for a LOT of people's comfort.
" ... that Kerry-Lieberman would reduce the average global temperature 0.077 degrees Fahrenheit by 2050, compared with what it would be if the bill were not adopted. That is one-fifth of one degree ... "
Ahem. Must innumeracy go unchallenged yet again?
I can't speak to the degrees which will come into play by 2050, but i can assure you this bill will kill the real estate market even more.
As it is now, it takes damn near 90 days and longer in a lot of cases to close a sale due solely to regulations by various governmental agencies. The new crap and trade will cripple housing sales by forcing "retrofit" repairs on all sales of individual homes to meet fed "energy" standards.
You think the housing market is fricked up now, wait until they jam this monstrosity through (at 3 o'clock in the morning I'm sure)