Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change

Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change:

Every year in a large city nearby, the average high temperature change between winter and summer is 60 degrees F. If the sun and earth rotation can make that much of a temperature change then obviously the sun has a major impact on the earth's temperature variation. A 1 degree F difference in surface temperature seems insignificant compared to that.

Past related posts:
D.C. has by far the highest (3.6) pounds of CO2 produced per KWH so if they don't have the political will to fix that why should we think they have the political will to actually pass a climate bill that is helpful? (Source)

"[T]he schedule of cutbacks contained in Waxman-Markey is very aggressive in the range of models studied by the IPCC — could cost up to 5.5 percent of global GDP by the year 2050, relative to the baseline trajectory of GDP if no carbon caps are imposed." "According to this estimate by climate scientist Chip Knappenberger, Waxman-Markey would lead to a planet that warmed 9/100ths of a degree Fahrenheit less than would otherwise be the case, by the year 2050." (Source)