Climatologist: Cap and trade does not make any real difference in fight against global warming



Patrick Michaels

 NewsNM - Swickard - Dr. Patrick Michaels spoke on News New Mexico Wednesday making most of these points. I for one was convinced that the effect of man is far less than the global folks are saying. From Capitol Report New Mexico.com - Climatologist Dr. Patrick J. Michaels acknowledges global temperatures have increased but maintains that fears about the effects of global warming are vastly overhyped and warns political pressure to make drastic changes to the US and the world economies constitutes an “invasion of our government and our lives.” Michaels, who is a senior fellow of environmental studies at the Cato Insitute (a libertarian think-tank based in Washington DC), spoke Wednesday night (June 22) in Albuquerque at a lecture sponsored by the Rio Grande Foundation. Among the topics Michaels touched on was the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill that passed the US House of Representatives in 2009 but failed in the Senate. Michaels pointed to a graphic showing three scenarios: the effect on global temperatures if no cap and trade plan goes into effect, global temperatures if the US had instituted Waxman-Markey and global temperautres if all the countries participating in the the Kyoto Protocol had instituted the terms of Waxman-Markey. Here’s the chart Michaels says shows that if nothing is done, global temperatures rise by 1.58 degrees; that if the US implements the terms of Waxman-Markey the temperatures rise by 1.54 degrees and if all the Kyoto countries adopt the terms of Waxman-Markey temperatures rise 1.50 degrees Read more