Obama’s CO2 Plan Will Only Avert 0.001 Degree Of Warming A Year
3:34 PM 03/31/2015
Michael Bastasch
President Barack Obama formally submitted his plan to cut U.S. carbon
dioxide emissions to the U.N. Tuesday and a climate scientists has
already pointed out a glaring problem: The plan will have virtually no impact on global temperatures.
Obama’s carbon dioxide reduction plan commits the U.S. to 26 to 28
percent below 2005 levels by 2025 — a promise he made last year to
secure a pledge from China to reduce its own emissions.
But Obama’s plan will only avert 0.001 degrees Celsius of global temperature rises a year, according to climate scientistChip Knappenberger with the libertarian Cato Institute.
Knappenberger notes that Obama’s climate plan mirrors a scenario where the U.S. reduces carbon dioxide emissions 80 percent by 2050. Using this assumption, Knappenberger calculates that only about one-tenth of adegree
of temperature rise will be averted by 2100. This breaks down to about a
one-thousandth of a degree of averted temperature rise every year over
the next century.
But Obama’s plan will only avert 0.001 degrees Celsius of global temperature rises a year, according to climate scientist
Knappenberger notes that Obama’s climate plan mirrors a scenario where the U.S. reduces carbon dioxide emissions 80 percent by 2050. Using this assumption, Knappenberger calculates that only about one-tenth of a
