Energy Clarity: The Greenhouse Effect Alex Epstein

 

Perhaps the biggest controversy over fossil fuels is their impact on climate and climate safety. Fossil fuel use does impact climate, but in smaller and different ways than is often portrayed. Let’s start with CO2.

When fossil fuels are burned in order to release the energy that powers the world one of the byproducts is CO2, carbon dioxide. There are two main impacts of CO2 on our environment: the greenhouse effect and the fertilizer effect.

To make a full context assessment of fossil fuels on climate we need to know precisely how these effects work and how significant they are. In this email we’ll look at greenhouse effect.

The greenhouse effect is the warming effect that occurs when CO2 is released into the atmosphere.

What we know about the greenhouse effect of CO2 is that it is a diminishing effect. Technically it’s called a logarithmic effect, which you can see on this chart.

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The x-axis shows the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and the y-axis shows the effect this makes in temperature.

What you can see is that one new molecule added to the atmosphere has quite a big effect, but as you go on each additional molecule has less and less of an effect. What this would imply is that by continuing to put more CO2 into the atmosphere we wouldn’t expect it to make that big a difference as compared to putting more in at the beginning.

So why are we told that putting more CO2 into the atmosphere will lead to catastrophic warming? We’ll look at that next time.

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

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