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Old 7th Oct 2007, 18:46
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Nick, if you really believe the information you post links to (which by implication means you agree with their links and evidence) then you should be campaigning across the USA for people to sell their cars and travel by bicycle. One of the sources claims the US is 18 times more polluting in terms of CO2 from vehicles than Africa...what do you drive? Don't tax the airlines, tax the motorists, your duty on fuel is a tiny amount of what Europe pays, you have the biggest cars with the biggest engines.

The US had to be dragged kicking and screaming into Kyoto and promptly negotiated all sorts of get-out clauses and invented carbon-offset trading.

I agree nuclear is the way forward but, as has already been said, the Greens don't like it and the 'Global warming' bandawagon has given them a huge stick to beat people with - they have the power and nothing will convince them about nuclear energy.

The main problem with the 'evidence' of global warming is that the scientific articles are full of phrases like 'modelling sugests', 'CO2 levels might rise', 'The earth temperature may rise by 3 degC', 'Sea levels may increase' and 'analysis of the data suggests'.

The best computer modelling suggests that it might rain next week in England, or Ireland or possibly France and no-one claims to understand the complexity of the global sea currents so how can you put so much faith in some number-crunching (garbage in, garbage out) to come out with the answer - 'the earth's getting hotter and it was the humans wot dunnit guv'
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