See for Yourself: Interactive Calculator Shows How Cutting Carbon Emissions Would Barely Budge Temperatures
16th June 2024
Ever since the start of Joe Biden’s presidency, curbing climate change has been a fundamental component of his energy policy agenda.
During the spring, for example, the Biden administration issued a power plant rule, imposing strict emissions reductions regarding the use of fossil-fuel power plants. There have been many other rules proposed as well, including regulating cars, stoves, dishwashers, water heaters, and even microwaves.
All of these rules are predicated on concerns about the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on global temperatures and climate change. If greenhouse gas emissions drive climate change, then curbing the use of sources of energy that emit them (such as coal, oil, and natural gas) should in theory curb these increases in global temperature.