Want to Lock Down for the Climate?

Partisan “fact checks” are undermining open discourse about important issues, including climate change. Earlier this month I wrote an accurate post on Facebook about the growing polar-bear population. The post undercut alarmist climate narratives, so it was wrongly tagged as a falsehood.

This article investigates the temperature reduction impact of major climate policy proposals implemented by 2030, using the standard MAGICC climate model. Even optimistically assuming that promised emission cuts are maintained throughout the century, the impacts are generally small. The impact of the US Clean Power Plan (USCPP) is a reduction in temperature rise by 0.013°C by 2100. The full US promise for the COP21 climate conference in Paris, its so-called Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) will reduce temperature rise by 0.031°C.

Danielle Smith of News Talk 770 (CHQR) interviews Bjorn Lomborg.

"Imagine an environmentalist who believes that global warming is a real, pressing problem that is mostly man-made. Now imagine that same environmentalist saying that the Paris Accord will do next to nothing to halt global warming and it should be tossed out. That’s the view of Bjorn Lomborg, president and founder of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre."