From Green Hell, John Kerry: CO2 regulation won’t work
Senate Foreign Relations committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry — a.k.a Mr. Teresa Heinz — said in a March 5 speech yesterday that, even with “the best” climate regulation proposed so far, including the cap-and-trade scheme outlined in President Obama’s budget proposal, atmospheric CO2 concentrations will nevertheless increase and cause “catastrophic and irreversible climate change,” according to Carbon Control News.
Kerry’s statement is based on a forthcoming analysis from the Heinz Center (Teresa Heinz, vice chair of the board of trustees), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Fidelity Investments.
“If you factor in the best of everything that is currently proposed — the best — and if you can presume that we do what is best,” CO2 emissions will still exceed 500 parts per million (ppm) by 2050,” Kerry said, while noting that 350 ppm was the CO2 concentration that policymakers should aim for.
“All the current plans take you to about 550 [ppm], but science has now said 550, 450 is not enough,” Kerry said. “We have to go back to 350.”
No matter what we do, more will need to be done. It will never be enough.
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March 6, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Philosopher
Yaaah! This means that even the eco-zealots (albeit for the wrong reasons from their perspective) can agree that we can ignore their alarmism and activism and focus on real issues that need to be solved in today’s society and world…
Maybe this is the beginning of the political ‘out’ for politicians that realize the gig is up and the objective observation of climate is scientifically disproving the ‘global warming’ theory. Hmm…Kerry probably sees the disaster this might be for him politically when carbon taxes crush his state’s economy.
March 6, 2009 at 6:18 pm
justbkuz
I don’t see the zealots putting themselves out of business voluntarily, but we can always hope. I like your idea of this being a political out, though. Let’s watch as this thing plays out, and if we see politicians even hinting at it, you’ll be able to say you called it, and I can say I’ve got really smart commenters ! It’s a win-win.