Thursday, April 18, 2013

On the Kyoto Protocol Being an "Insurance Policy"

According to Pat Michaels of the Cato Institute (yes, the dude's an actual climatologist), the Kyoto Protocol would end up costing the tax-payers of the signatory countries hundreds of billions, possibly trillions, of dollars, and it would only reduce the earth's temperature at a rate of 7 one hundredths of 1 degree Celsius per every 50 years. I have to ask you here. Does that sound even remotely like a good bargain to you? I'm pretty much thinking nada.

3 comments:

dmarks said...

Would it even have reduced anything? After all Kyoto accords recommended/allowed/had one of the words major carbon "polluters" greatly increase its carbon footprint.

Les Carpenter said...

It no doubt does to Al Goreleoni.

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

Yeah, maybe 7/100ths of a degree is actually a tad too optimistic.