So if the Sun decides it wants an ice age can we all sue Britain?
Do they mean low "carbs" instead?
What a scam.
What is really driving this carbon madness? Population control?
Are the sacrificing the word's human population to the earth goddess?
They should be setting tougher muslim immigration limits instead.
They can set all the goals they want, and generate all the positive publicity that comes with latching onto the environmental agenda, but every report shows that Europe, despite agreeing to the Kyoto Protocols, has hardly slowed down their greenhouse emissions. So, when facts are reviewed, it's all a bunch of "hot air".
The Brits used to be sensible people. Now they're going off the deep end. Even the Canadians have realized that Kyoto is a bogus ripoff. Looks like the Brits have the Global Warming Fever bad. Maybe it was all that tainted beef ("mad cow") they ate in the 90's, now all their brains are turning to mush.
You've got a handful of socielist backed so-called "scientists" who can barely spell their names promoting the fairy tale of "Global warming" as a man-made technology-driven event and the rest of the actually credible scientific community flatly stating the causes are either part of a cyclical solar event or "other" potential cause.
So you enact legislation to cripple your society at the behest of the "nutter" crowd.
Brilliant...just brilliant...
zero-carbon housing?
Brick? Stone? No heat? No people?
It is sad that the Brits wish to nueter themselves with global warming hysteria, this is rather foolish on their part.
Britain has so many socialist stooges it's unbeleivable! Good God how stupid these people are. Throwing their economy into the tank for some phoney global warming nonsense. So be it, more of the world's share of trade for the US.
FLAMING IDIOTS! Who was that king that commanded the sea be whipped for sinking his ships?
Is there a word for "beyond stupid?" The UK itself produced a documentary debunking the carbon dioxide/climate change connection. Carbon dioxide increases after and as a result of global warming. Carbon dioxide does NOT cause global warming! The embarrassment and stupidity of such a billion dollar blunder is beyond words! But have you ever witnessed a politician really admit a mistake? After all they are lawyers not scientists for the most part!
Glad I'm not a British taxpayer.
Citizens in Great Britain may soon be hit by a blitz of top secret green taxes to combat the socialist bogeyman called global warming, reports the Daily Mail.
Under this proposal, the government would grab billions of pounds of extra revenue by not telling motorists when gas prices go down. So everytime petro prices drop, the tax on petro would automatically rise. So rather than drivers seeing that extra savings in their pocket, the government would keep the price high and grab the extra money for itself.
Then there’s talk of raising the annual road tax from a maximum of £210 to £5,000 in order to “combat car use and ownership.”
And a “pay per mile” tax could be added.
Next, Brits could see a washing machine tax, a dishwasher tax, a dryer tax, a lightbulb tax and an air travel tax.
Finally, the Tories plan to install “spies” in dustbins to impose a “rubbish tax” on households that throw away non-recyclable refuse.
The grand total of new taxes for a family of four would be an additional £1,163 per year.