According to the EPA new controls on CO2 could slow new construction for years. And on top of that the benefit in terms of global temperatures will be a whopping .0015 celsius. And don’t put away your shorts and tee shirts just yet, we won’t see all that reduced warming for 90 years. So the next time some warmist tells you about sea level rise that will be occurring over the next century, or polar ice cap melts or whatever the horror story–ask them what it is that they are proposing that will prevent it from happening. Here’s what the EPA concluded:
(D)uring this time, tens of thousands of sources each year would be
prevented from constructing or modifying…In
fact, it is reasonable to assume that many of those sources will be
forced to abandon altogether plans to construct or modify. As a result, a
literal application (of the permit requirement) to GHG (greenhouse gas)
sources would slow construction nationwide for years, with all of the
adverse effects that this would have on economic development.
The EPA goes on to conclude that:
Based on the reanalysis the results for projected atmospheric CO2
concentrations are estimated to be reduced by an average of 2.9 ppm
[parts per million] (previously 3.0 ppm), global mean temperature is
estimated to by reduced by 0.006 to 0.0015 ˚C by 2100.
