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Open thread June 13, 2014

Dan Crawford | June 13, 2014 11:24 am

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  • CoRev says:
    June 13, 2014 at 9:11 pm

    One of my consistent complaints is too few actually do the math to develop results from policies. The most recent EPA regulations are an example. Anyone ask just how much impact will the new power station regulations have on temperatures? This article uses the EPA’s own numbers and a tool they partially funded to develop the impact:http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/12/epa-leaves-out-the-most-vital-number-in-their-fact-sheet/

    In it we find: “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….
    and
    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….”

    Yup! UNDETECTABLE!!!

  • Bruce Webb says:
    June 14, 2014 at 6:11 pm

    CoRev got a question for you. Since this is an Open Thread.

    Still defending that Miracle in Anbar you were all over back in 2007?

    Ah Good Times at AB!

  • CoRev says:
    June 14, 2014 at 6:24 pm

    Bruce, are you kidding? Who pulled the troops, and when we start bombing etc. what necessitated a reaction?

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