The following has been excerpted from World Climate Report. Using the ‘magic number’ they developed with exhaustive back of the envelope calculations, they have arrived at a way that you, as a ‘polluter,’ can actually see to what extent you are causing (or ‘preventing’) temperature change.
Of course, this assumes that the Sun has little or nothing to do with climate change. Click on the link below if you want to see WCR’s complete analysis.
“What You Can(‘t) Do About Global Warming”
This is a handy-dandy and powerful piece of information to have, because now, whenever you are presented with an emissions savings that some action to save the planet from global warming is supposed to produce, you can actually see how much of a difference it will really make. Just take the emissions savings (in units of million metric tonnes (mmt) of CO2) and divide it by 1,767,250.
We are always hearing about ways that you can “save the planet” from the perils of global warming—from riding your bicycle to work, to supporting the latest national greenhouse gas restriction limitations, and everything in between.
In virtually each and every case, advocates of these measures provide you with the amount of greenhouse gas emissions (primarily carbon dioxide) that will be saved by the particular action.
And if you want to figure this out for yourself, the web is full of CO2 calculators (just google “CO2 calculator”) which allow you to calculate your carbon footprint and how much it can be reduced by taking various conservations steps—all with an eye towards reducing global warming.
However, in absolutely zero of these cases are you told, or can you calculate, how much impact you are going to have on the actual climate itself. After all, CO2 emissions are not climate—they are gases. Climate is temperature and precipitation and storms and winds, etc. If the goal of the actions is to prevent global warming, then you shouldn’t really care a hoot about the amount of CO2 emissions that you are reducing, but instead, you want to know how much of the planet you are saving. How much anthropogenic climate change is being prevented by unplugging your cell phone charger, from biking to the park, or from slashing national carbon dioxide emissions?
Why do none of the CO2 calculators give you that most valuable piece of information? Why don’t the politicians, the EPA, and/or greenhouse gas reduction advocates tell you the bottom line?
How much global warming are we avoiding?
Embarrassingly for them, this information is readily available.
Let’s say that you decide to stop driving your SUV for a year. According to NativeEnergy.com, you would circumvent causing 24 metric tons of emissions.
Wow! That’s a lot!
Now, let’s do the magic number thing. First, convert 24 metric tons in terms of million metric tons = 0.000024 mmt. Divide that by 1,767,250 = 0.0000000000136°C/year.
If you lack the fortitude to actually make these sacrifices to prevent one hundred billionth of a degree of warming, for $364 each year, NativeEnergy.com will offset your guilt.
Talk about Ponzi schemes . . .
Given the draconian Waxman–Markey bill before the House of Representatives, this magic number will show just how little carbon caps will help. Just consider how devastating to the economy these Congressional Ponzi schemes will be if the bill passes.
See “The Waxman-Markey ‘Climate’ Bill Does Nothing for the Climate“
The Democrats and the Obamadministration think it’s OK for Iran to enrich nuclear fuel for that country’s energy needs, yet the moratorium on new nuclear facilities for the US continues. Why is it OK for them and not OK for us?
