Posted on 09/19/2007 3:11:01 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
LONDON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- A British study suggested that London's carbon dioxide emissions could be reduced 72 percent by 2030 if all automobile traffic was banned in the city.
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine noted the Greater London Authority -- the administrative body for London's 610 square miles -- is committed to a 60 percent reduction of the city's carbon dioxide emissions by 2025. But researchers said most climate scientists argue an even more rapid reduction will be needed to avoid dangerous climate change.
A team of experts from the LSHTM and the Oxford University Center for the Environment said a car-free London would achieve an 83 percent lower emissions rate than the current U.K. average. The proposal involves combining a car-free London with high levels of active transport such as walking and cycling.
The researchers said such an automobile ban wouldn't only benefit car users in terms of improved health as a result of greater physical activity but as active transport in the form of walking or cycling increased, more people would be willing and able to comfortably walk or cycle longer distances.
Now if we can only get those pesky Londoners to stop exhaling, we can reach 100%
ever see some of the roads there... plenty of them are still sized for two horse carts side by side...
Sounds like the Law of Unintended Consequences is about to rear its ugly head.
Yes, any resultant cooling may be compensated for by downtown London walk-in suicide bombers dedicated to temperature enhancement procedures completely compatible with their moon-god mandated martyrdom activities. Cost of bombing goes down without the use of a vehicle.
CRAZY!
A 60% reduction is not even enough....
What do they consider DANGEROUS climate change? This is all ambiguous BS.
active transport such as walking and cycling.
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The enviro-mental dream, making first world countries into third world countries.
LOL
The best part of this? The mohammedans will not have to deal with their darn pesky women demanding to drive.
Why not ban all cars in Britain? If this is the catastrophe in motion these piss-ants think it is, go all the way. Turn into third world nation, wither away and die.
All those who think global warming is going to kill us all, please line up of there. The buses will by in a minute to take you out to the cemetary.
Jolly good show. Thanks ever so much for making room for the rest of us who still plan to go on living. Cheerio then...
one would bet that all the members of parliament would still be pulling up in their black shiny cars.
Pretty sure that's the main idea
if they keep going, they will be as stone aged as the muslims are demanding pretty soon
I think the cure can be found in the Old West days way of living
at least for a few generations
Also ban elections, as these conditions could only be imposed by a dictatorship (but not for long)!.
I don't know anyone on the "right" who wants that.
What the Hell is wrong with the world? Good question.
Yeah, I was born in the stone age and it sucked!
Come on, you know what I mean. Islam is way way way far right just the same as Communist are way way way far left. You can be left or right of center and still be in acceptable norms of politics. True Conservatives and Reaganites are Right of center but a long long way from Talaban or say the Central American Dictators. And the Democrats back in 1994 had a fair amount of left wing Southern Democrats who still were decient people. Then Newt won the House and they all became RINOs and are our problem moderates now.
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