Posted by
Catmman on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 1:02:25 PM
According to
this climatologist, the US must cut
ALL CO2 emissions,
ALL OF THEM -
100%, by 2020. In other words, this is the "Destroy America" plan for saving the planet. At least
someone form the Warmist crowd finally has the guts to come out and say it...
Everything that produces CO2 in the US, every industry, every area of life which results in the emission of CO2,
MUST BE CUT 100% i
n the next ten years. Other countries of course get a longer timeline. There is no mention if this also pertains to respiration by the 300 million American citizens, but I'm sure it's implied:
Schellnhuber and his WBGU colleagues go a giant step beyond the findings
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN body whose
scientific reports are constrained because the world's governments must
approve their contents. The IPCC says that rich industrial countries
must cut emissions 25 to 40 percent by 2020 (from 1990 levels) if the
world is to have a fair chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change.
By contrast, the WBGU study says the United States must cut emissions
100 percent by 2020--i.e., quit carbon entirely within ten years.
Germany, Italy and other industrial nations must do the same by 2025 to
2030. China only has until 2035, and the world as a whole must be
carbon-free by 2050. The study adds that big polluters can delay their
day of reckoning by "buying" emissions rights from developing countries,
a step the study estimates would extend some countries' deadlines by a
decade or so.
The only way to get an extension of our "day of reckoning"? Pay for
protection money 'carbon credits' from "developing countries".
I would suggest getting President Obama to stop flying all over the world giving speeches once a day and accepting awards could cut our countries CO2 emissions by at least 75% within a day or two, but what do I know. I'm not a climatologist.