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By Design: Evidence for Nature's Intelligent Designer—the God of the Bible

by Dr. Jonathan Sarfati

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"At the moment, the only real political initiative calling for carbon cuts is the so-called Kyoto Protocol, signed in 1997. It has been championed by many environmentalists, including Al Gore, who as vice president directed the U.S. negotiations. Here it was decided that the industrial nations should reduce their overall CO₂ emissions in the period from 2008 to 2012 by about 20 percent below what they would otherwise have been.

Yet Kyoto matters little for the climate. Even if all countries had ratified it (the United States and Australia did not), and all countries lived up to their commitments (which many will have a hard time doing) and stuck to them throughout the twenty-first century (which would get ever harder), the change would have been minuscule. The temperature by 2050 would be an immeasurable 0.1°F lower and even by 2100 only 0.3°F lower. This means that the expected temperature increase of 4.7°F would be postponed just five years, from 2100 to 2105.

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Realistically, the effective outcome will be a tiny 1 percent reduction of industrial-country emissions from what they would otherwise have been.

If no other treaty replaces Kyoto after 2012, its total effect will have been to postpone the rise in global temperature a bit less than seven days in 2100.

Bjorn Lomborg, Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), 22 - 23.

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