Government accused of pitiful failure to meet target for greenhouse gas emissions (Britain)

The Guardian (UK) ^ | March 29, 2006 | David Adam and Terry Macalister

[RightGeek]

Scientists, environmental campaigners and opposition politicians yesterday issued a scathing response to the government's admission that it will fail to meet a key target to cut greenhouse gas pollution. They called the results of an 18-month review of climate change policies "pitiful" and accused ministers of lacking the political will to tackle global warming.

Margaret Beckett, the environment secretary, confirmed that measures to reduce emissions are now projected to cut UK carbon dioxide pollution by 15%-18% below 1990 levels by 2010. The government had pledged to reduce it by 20%.

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Peter Ainsworth, the shadow environment secretary, said: "The review is a grim admission of failure on what was meant to be one of Mr Blair's top priorities. Worse still, it fails to chart a course which will get us back on track."

[RightGeek]

Found at the Global Warming News Site, which has a lot of similarly amusing stuff. Aside from offering the ecoweenies a big boohoo, I have to ask why Peter Ainsworth of the Conservative party is adding to the whining. Isn't there anyone over there with a clue?

[Always Right]

Good thing Britain signed Kyoto so the planet was saved.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

They want us to live in caves.

[Richard Axtell]

The British government has failed to commit economic suicide, how pitiful. Wait till the real policy proposals promised to "solve" the non-existant crisis are finally explained. Not only will they not work, they will drive Pro-Kyoto politicians from office, and we will be back to where we started from, or perhaps several trillion dollars poorer.

[Canard]

"The British government has failed to commit economic suicide, how pitiful."

I dunno, from previous experience with the Blair government, the fact that they didn't deliever the promised results doesn't mean that they didn't spend the money...