I’ll be printing this out and shoving it up the nose of anyone who preaches to me that Aviation must be cleaned up more! This is precisely what I’ve been saying for years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/13/climatechange.pollution
The true scale of climate change emissions from shipping is almost three times higher than previously believed, according to a leaked UN study seen by the Guardian.
It calculates that annual emissions from the world’s merchant fleet have already reached 1.12bn tonnes of CO₂, or nearly 4.5% of all global emissions of the main greenhouse gas.
The report suggests that shipping emissions – which are not taken into account by European targets for cutting global warming – will become one of the largest single sources of manmade CO₂after cars, housing, agriculture and industry. By comparison, the aviation industry, which has been under heavy pressure to clean up, is responsible for about 650m tonnes of CO₂emissions a year, just over half that from shipping.
By: GAZGLA - 28th February 2008 at 18:53
Don’t get me started on Al Gores crap!
Global warming is part of the natural rythm of the earth. We’re not helping matters, thats for sure, but we can’t stop it, even if we convert to 100% clean energy tomorrow.
I’ve been saying that since all this green crap started. Hows the hole in the O-zone layer doing? That was all the rage for the first year or so, now theres hardly a peep about it.
Gaz
By: symon - 28th February 2008 at 18:30
Don’t get me started on Al Gores crap!
Global warming is part of the natural rythm of the earth. We’re not helping matters, thats for sure, but we can’t stop it, even if we convert to 100% clean energy tomorrow.
I second that!
One of the last projects that I have to do for my course, that I’m doing right now, is creating a 1GW renewable energy scheme – the joys :rolleyes:
By: Bmused55 - 28th February 2008 at 10:50
Don’t get me started on Al Gores crap!
Global warming is part of the natural rythm of the earth. We’re not helping matters, thats for sure, but we can’t stop it, even if we convert to 100% clean energy tomorrow.
By: wysiwyg - 28th February 2008 at 09:51
Ahhh but…
If a government didn’t make the flying public feel bad about it (how many people really travel by ship) then how else could they con all the Green supporters into this current position of wanting taxes imposed. The politicians have never had it so good. After all it’s not really a lie it’s just being very, very economic with the truth. Now for a real scandal let’s start examining Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’.
By: Deano - 28th February 2008 at 09:37
This is precisely what I’ve been saying for years.
Likewise
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