A proposal currently making its way through the House Energy & Commerce Committee calls for eventual 83% cuts in greenhouse gas emissions would, by 2050, achieve only 0.09 degree F (0.05 degree C) reduction in global average temperature. By 2100, the reduction would grow to 0.112 to 0.195 degree C (0.2 to 0.35 degree F).
That’s the conclusion of environmental scientist Chip Knappenberg, of Master Resource, a free-market energy blog. Knappenberger, who brings 20 years as a climate researcher and 10 years with the Virginia State Climatology Office to the task, points out that this would set back warming by only two years as of 2050, and five years by 2100.
Knappenberger reached his conclusions using a standard climate model designed for use by the EPA for this very purpose and data provided by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change–a model and data embraced by climate alarmists.
For a program costing hundreds of billions of dollars per year–probably around $20 trillion over the century–that seems a pretty small payoff. It’s certainly too small to have any observable impact on human life or the rest of the environment.
