EPA: Yeah, Turns Out Carbon Emissions Reduction Has Little Impact On Climate Change
March 1, 2014
When President Obama announced new fuel standards for trucks last week, he said the initiative would cut the harmful carbon pollution responsible
for climate change.But even the government says such action won’t put a dent in global warming.
The EPA’s so-called “temperature change calculator,” which shows how reducing carbon emissions would affect climate change, indicates that a doubling of fuel economy in trucks by 2018 would have virtually no impact on rising temperatures. Analysts at the Cato Institute’s Center for the Study of Science said the government calculator shows that even reducing total U.S. carbon emissions to zero this year would prevent global temperatures from rising by only 0.2 degrees by the year 2100.
“Any policy
that the U.S. does that purports to be climatically important, in fact is not,” said Patrick Michaels, director of the center.The EPA says its vehicle greenhouse gas rules already in place will save consumers $1.7 trillion at the pump by 2025, and will eliminate six billion metric tons of carbon pollution. When Mr. Obama visited a trucking distribution center in Upper Marlboro, Md., last week, he called the administration’s new proposed rules on fuel efficiency a “win-win-win” situation.
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