Green taxes.

[Dan 4RR]

How will taxing someone actually stop pollution, it just seems that whenever their is a problem within the UK, the first and only answer the goverment seems to come up with is taxing the hard working people back into the stone age. Fuckers

[Walloper]

CARBON TAX will work.
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[Itchy]

they got it wrong though , it'll generate tons of £££££ for the first few years , the government will get used to the income and everybody will switch to something else , at which their revenue falls at which new taxes will come in,

same happened with petrol tax , petrol tax went up and up so people bought 30mph cars then 40mpg then 50mph then diesel , this affected the revenue.

its all BS though as said UK = 2% of carbon in the world China is building a coal fired powerstation like Drax every 3 days , if we cut our emissions to nil makes zero difference ,

these taxes are designed to fill Gordon's 48 bn black hole , yes you read it right 48bn , if you include the illegal accounting methods which put things off balance sheet that would get any accountant sued fired and lose his/her charter its more like 125bn.
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[Dan 4RR]

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Hi

Depends when you choose as your starting point.

The UK makes itself look quite good by having shut down the coal mining industry and mainly gone for gas powered power stations.

What they tend to keep quiet about is how little CO2 is actually man made compared to how much occurs naturally.

All the best

Keith
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[mchaggis]

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Hi

Seems aviation is responsible for 2% of global CO2 (presume that is 2% of man made CO2).

Methane levels are, if anything, rising faster than CO2 levels. If we stopped eating so many cows then there might be less of them being bred and farting in fields.

All the best

Keith
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Hi

Seems aviation is responsible for 2% of global CO2 (presume that is 2% of man made CO2).

Methane levels are, if anything, rising faster than CO2 levels. If we stopped eating so many cows then there might be less of them being bred and farting in fields.

All the best

Keith
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[gavin]

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Hi

Methane is well over 20 times more potent than CO2, but is in far smaller volumes (about 1700ppb for methane as opposed to about 380ppm for CO2). So CO2 has about 220 times the effect once volume is taken account of.

Water vapour is the most important greenhouse gas.

But then if we started eating more veg, we might land up producing rather more methane .

All the best

Keith
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[gavin]

yup...i posted some stats a while back...its around 25 times.....dunno where i got 7 times from......my memory must be going....

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