Ok… another global warming post. Ok… it turns out that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have endorced an 80 by 50 (80% recution in CO2 emissions by 2050) CO2 plan. Let’s look at what this would actually mean for Americans… (via WSJ.com)
By the year 2050, the Census Bureau projects that our population will be around 420 million. This means per capita emissions will have to fall to about 2.5 tons in order to meet the goal of 80% reduction.
It is likely that U.S. per capita emissions were never that low – even back in colonial days when the only fuel we burned was wood.
If that comparison seems unfair, consider that even the least-CO2 emitting industrialized nations do not come close to the 2050 target. France and Switzerland, compact nations that generate almost all of their electricity from nonfossil fuel sources (nuclear for France, hydro for Switzerland) emit about 6.5 metric tons of CO2 per capita
Today, the average residence in the U.S. uses about 10,500 kilowatt hours of electricity and emits 11.4 tons of CO2 per year (much more if you are Al Gore or John Edwards and live in a mansion). To stay within the magic number, average household emissions will have to fall to no more than 1.5 tons per year. In our current electricity infrastructure, this would mean using no more than about 2,500 KwH per year. This is not enough juice to run the average hot water heater.
If this goes to prove ANYTHING… it is that Democrats are so out-of-touch with facts and reality that neither facts nor reality matter to them in the slightest. They are completely willing to believe that we can have lower carbon footprints in 2050 than we did in 1700… even though there was next to NO industry in the 1700′s. The Democrats who want or believe this is possible suffer from a severe mental impairment. They are delusional. To even suggest this as a matter of public policy is laughable…
Are these the minds we want RUNNING the country? (oh! let’s allow these minds to manage the economy too…)
This is a good post, I had a professor at BGSU who explained to us why the whole global warming fad was a scam. He was super intelligent guy, some sort of rocket scientist who graduated from Yale with a PHD in astrophysics, he had a fellowship with NASA, he said pretty much the same things you are saying here.
I don’t want Clinton, Obama or that douche bag McCain running the country.
glad you liked it. you know, this is really a great day in the history of this blog… we finally agree on not just one but TWO things! I’m liking it!
who was this instructor or yours, by the way? If he’s as smart as you say he is… he’s probably published somewhere and I’d be interested to read some of his stuff.
hmm, i cant remember his name, but im sure i have it in the materials i saved in my basement somewhere, hey you went to bgsu didnt ya? he taught all the astronomy and physics courses he was young and very very handsome, i think he was in his mid thirties back then…he does have a website and everything i will find it and post it in a couple of days…
yeah we agree on something i bet its chilly in hell today ; )