Climate politics

From the NYTimes:

Senator John McCain sought to distance himself from President Bush on Monday as he called for a mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States to combat climate change. ... The two Democrats seeking their party’s presidential nomination, Senators Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, criticized the McCain plan as too timid, because their plans would reduce emissions more quickly. ... In his speech, Mr. McCain advocated cutting emissions 60 percent below 1990 levels by the year 2050; Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama propose cutting them by 80 percent in the same time frame, while the Lieberman-Warner bills calls for a 70 percent reduction.

Using my vast Microsoft Excel superpowers, I've created the following graphic to illustrate the comparison between McCain, Clinton-Obama and Lieberman-Warner (click on the thumbnail for a 50% enlargement):

Comments

[joshua corning]

That would put us with about the same CO2 emission that we had in 1940....and that is under McCain's plan.

The death of environmentalism is now getting fun to watch.

/popcorn