UK cuts in CO2 are woefully inadequate
15 09 08 - 03:08 Ministers tell us that the rest of the world is lost in admiration for the UK government and its leadership on climate change.What planet are these people living on?
At the moment we have a climate change bill which calls for 60% cuts in CO2 by 2050. While that figure may once have reflected the latest scientific knowledge, everyone now accepts that this level of cuts is totally inadequate – in fact it would be a recipe for disaster. Yet the government resists our call for an 80% target in the bill (although over 80 Labour backbenchers have already backed such an amendment). Meanwhile, the Tories abstain. Yes, that's right – on one of the biggest issues facing the future of our planet, the Tories are sitting on their hands. Experienced older hands like John Gummer and David Maclean, who have had ministerial responsibility for the environment, are backing 80%, but David Cameron's frontbench can't make their mind up. And don't get me going on the Tory backbenchers who voted against the whole climate change bill because, like Jeremy Clarkson, they think it's all fiction.
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Shall we find out if climate change is "all fiction" or not by waiting until it is too late to save the planet?
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