Oh, that 0.018 degree difference for the EPA new crushing CO2 regulations? - Granite Grok

Oh, that 0.018 degree difference for the EPA new crushing CO2 regulations?

The killing of coal by the Administration that I wrote about here?  Simply because:

  • the GAIA worshipping environmentalist ideology has completely wormed its way into Government to grasp the levers of power.
  • Progressives, once again, FORCING the rest of us to live our lives in ways THEY approve of – our opinions don’t matter.

In doing so, they will go well past “fundamentally transform” the United States – they are going to completely move us to a Second World nation.  And for what?

All this for what will amount to 0.018 degrees F by 2100.

Yeah, only a 0.018 difference in the temperature of the Earth.  Anything that is done here in the US will be totally swamped out of focus by both Russia and China (not to mention all the developing nations all aspiring to be First World.  And it isn’t just decreeing what energy sources that we will be allowed to use, but by doing so, they have already pre-determined that they are ok with a vastly lowered standard of living.  These white guilty Liberals hate America and for what it used to stand for and are all out in trying to make sure that the damage is so severe that America may never recover from both the restrictions placed on our lifestyles, the absolute fortune that this will cost, but most importantly and worst of all, the imposition “new order philosophy” that says “Government determines all, not Citizens” – and that you will comply.

But I rant.  That 0.018 degrees F  number?  From Watts Up With That, the model that basically says “ALL that lost, for basically zero result (emphasis mine, reformatted) – here’s where it came from:

Last week, the Obama Administration’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a new set of proposed regulations aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing U. S. power plants. The motivation for the EPA’s plan comes from the President’s desire to address and mitigate anthropogenic climate change.  We hate to be the party poopers, but the new regulations will do no such thing.

The EPA’s regulations seek to limit carbon dioxide emissions from electricity production in the year 2030 to a level 30 percent below what they were in 2005. It is worth noting that power plant CO2 emissions already dropped by about 15% from 2005 to2012, largely, because of market forces which favor less-CO2-emitting natural gas over coal as the fuel of choice for producing electricity. Apparently the President wants to lock in those gains and manipulate the market to see that the same decline takes place in twice the time.  Nothing like government intervention to facilitate market inefficiency. But we digress.  The EPA highlighted what the plan would achieve in their “By the Numbers” Fact Sheet that accompanied their big announcement.

For some reason, they left off their Fact Sheet how much climate change would be averted by the plan. Seems like a strange omission since, after all, without the threat of climate change, there would be no one thinking about the forced abridgement of our primary source of power production in the first place, and the Administration’s new emissions restriction scheme wouldn’t even be a gleam in this or any other president’s eye.  But no worries.  What the EPA left out, we’ll fill in.

Using a simple, publically-available, climate model emulator called MAGICC that was in part developed through support of the EPA, we ran the numbers as to how much future temperature rise would be averted by a complete adoption and adherence to the EPA’s new carbon dioxide restrictions*.

The answer? Less than two one-hundredths of a degree Celsius by the year 2100.  0.018°C to be exact.  We’re not even sure how to put such a small number into practical terms, because, basically, the number is so small as to be undetectable.  Which, no doubt, is why it’s not included in the EPA Fact Sheet.

It is not too small, however, that it shouldn’t play a huge role in every and all discussions of the new regulations.

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* Details and Additional Information about our Calculation

We have used the Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse-gas Induced Climate Change (MAGICC)—a simple climate model emulator that was, in part, developed through support of the EPA—to examine the climate impact of proposed regulations.

MAGICC version 6 is available as an on-line tool.

We analyzed the climate impact of the new EPA regulations by modifying future emissions scenarios that have been established by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to reflect the new EPA proposed emissions targets.

There is a whole bunch more at the post – I’ve pasted enough here.  I URGE you to go look at it.

It is one thing to extract pain and cost on those that have no choice in the matter IF there is some sort of redeemable result at the end.  But really – if this is true, there isn’t any.  Nada. Nein. Non. zippo.  There will be NO positive climate change result from tyrannically transforming how Americans live their lives by not a decision made by our elected officials (to whom we can then hold accountable) but by unelected, unaccountable, self-important, and dictatorial bureaucrats.

The essence of what we waged a war over back in the 1770s.  The essence of everything that our Constitutional Republic stands against.

Obama and his Pack of Progressive love it – once again using the very thin veil of “doing something” (that they won’t be around in 2100 to prove “Worked!”), they prove the phrase “Watermelon Environmentalists” – a green veneer on the outside but pure Red (in the traditional sense) socialists on the inside.

Those at the levers of power are not environmentalists, they are control freaks that truly believe they know better than you do how you should live your life – and will stop at nothing in order to accomplish it.

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