Oct 27, 2005

Climate Change Contradictions

Posted in Environment at 9:15 am by David Bradley -- Click to comment

We all have so-called climate change targets to meet. So, you’d think we would be doing everything we can to cut carbon emissions, conserve energy etc. And, it looks like we’re heading in the “right” direction - wind farms are sprouting up all over the place and forests are being harvested for biomass fuel rather than our digging away at ancient fossil hydrocarbons…doesn’t add up really does it? How much energy does it take to build one of those turbines and how long do they last? Ditto plant and managing supposedly “sustainable” forests for biomass? Couple that with the recent announcement that London’s Luton Airport is to get more terminal space and extra runways to allow at least three times its current passenger capacity and one begins to wonder…

Planting a few trees to use as fuel and erecting wind turbines that blight the countrside and have 0% efficiency on windless days cannot possibly offset the huge increase from aircraft emissions we will see in coming years.

The BBC today reports that Prince Charless sees climate change as the “greatest challenge to face man”…he’s such an expert, of course. Oh, and he’s worried about bird flu.

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