Are these people serious?
Britain faces a stark choice between cheap air travel and fulfilling its promises on cutting carbon emissions, a report has claimed.Their answer: Demand Management.
The document said that aviation will consume a large proportion of the UK's carbon budget under even the most conservative growth forecasts and allowing for all realistic improvements in technology.
Dr Brenda Boardman, who oversaw the project, said: "The Government has to confront the contradictions in its policies.
"Unless the rate of growth in flights is curbed, the UK cannot fulfil its commitments on climate change.
"If Government wants to be confident about achieving its targets, it has to undertake demand management. Relying on technological fixes alone is totally unrealistic."
The findings suggest that public awareness of these issues has grown steadily and support for restraining the growth in air travel now outweighs opposition, with a majority in favour of airlines paying for environmental damage, even if this means higher fares.
Higher Fares - That's the ticket.
Those British flagged aircraft, their costs will be a tad bit higher than US carriers that do not have those political carbon costs to carry.
ReplyDeleteThis is fine by me. Our economy up here in the Soviet of Washington is tied to Microsuckware and Boeing. If the EUtopians scale back their flights, this will mean fewer orders for AirBus.
ReplyDeleteEU plans tough laws on energy efficiency
ReplyDelete"From next year he wants to implement directives setting down minimum energy performance requirements for 14 priority products, including boilers, computers, washing machines, office lighting and air conditioning. His plan says “special attention will be devoted to standby loss reduction” – a reference to the power-consuming standby modes on televisions and other appliances."
Europe must be rollin in the dough to pay for a green premium on, well, everything?
"Stringent new European Commission energy efficiency targets for items such as electrical appliances and cars could set new global standards, since all imports into the European market would have to comply[...]The proposed regulations – including extensions of existing rules – would impose European energy efficiency standards on any company worldwide seeking access to the EU’s 480m consumers, including US manufacturers."
Am I wrong to see this as typical EU ridiculousness? This is like when they talk about moral power as an actual thing. The Kyoto Treaty is still referenced as a goal in that article. WTF?
Nice posts Whit!!!
ReplyDeleteBloody, it depends on who is manufacturing the 14 products.
ReplyDeleteOne is reminded of Hitler directing ghost divisions from the Chancellery bunker. Busy, Busy, Busy!
ReplyDeletewhatz wit da carbon? are day jorks or worst?
ReplyDeletecarbon paer ,now that i understandcause my cousin guido had a typewriter shop before computers came in he did ok ya know. but then with the apples and the trs-80's and da women,oh the women who wanted to learn how guido did a computer.
it was magic,i mean like day come in and he says hey wanna computer and day says yeah how much and he says i got a lay a way plan well i tell ya there went da carbon paper right out da door. i mean what broad needs carbon paper wit a computer. so furst he duz 'em wit DOS and those lay a ways got longer and longer cause dat DOS was hard on da broads. thay broke nails, day had bad days, so da lay a ways went on all the times. so i guess what i'm says is that carbon don't got a need ya know. we needs more lay a ways or like when i was in england and day calls'em lay byes i'm think'in anutter letter and i'm gonna get a car bone ya know.so we left.
Bless my underwear
ReplyDeleteGod, bless my underwear
My only pair.
Stand beside them,
And guide them,
As they sit in a heap by the chair.
From the washer,
To the clothesline,
To my dresser drawer,
To my rear!
God, bless my underwear,
My only pair.
God, bless my underwear,
Or I'll be bare.
PEANUT BUTTER
ReplyDeleteThere's a food goin' around
That's a sticky, sticky, goo
(Peanut, peanut butter)
A-well, it tastes real good
But it's so hard to chew
(Peanut, WHIP-IT butter)
All my friends tell me
That they dig it the mo-ho-ost
(Peanut, peanut butter)
Early in the morning
When they spread it on to-oh-oast
(Peanut, peanut butter)
I like peanut butter
Creamy, peanut butter,
Chunky, peanut butter, too
'Come on now, take a lesson, now!'
(Peanut, peanut butter)
'Open up your jaw, now!'
(Peanut, peanut butter)
'Spread it on your cracker, now!'
(Peanut, peanut butter)
'Stop, now'
(Peanut, peanut butter)
I like peanut butter
Creamy, peanut butter,
Chunky, peanut butter, too
We-eee-ell
I went to a dinner
And-a what did they e-e-eat?
(Peanut, peanut butter)
A-well, I took a big bite
And it stuck to my te-e-eeth
(Peanut, peanut butter)
Now, ev'rybody looks
A-like they've got the mumps
(He loves peanut butter)
Eat his peanut butter
In-a great big hunk
(He loves peanut butter)
I like peanut butter
Creamy, peanut butter
Chunky, peanut butter, too
I like peanut butter
Creamy, peanut butter
Chunky, peanut butter, too.
I'm actually a breast man with heavy ... on G-d wrong blog...I'm a Republican with anarchist tendencies and a dram of mental illness. Which really makes it ok because who knows what the hell anymore. Right?
ReplyDeleteThe difference between the Bush administration and its Democratic critics now amounts to six-party talks or two-party talks with North Korea--as if talking would stop Kim Jong Il. It turns on direct or indirect negotiations with Ahmadinejad--as if he were willing to negotiate away his nuclear program. With the exception of Bush's commendable steadfastness in Iraq--combined, how ever, with debilitating stubbornness on troop levels and strategy--and his support for Israel, Bush's foreign policy is now Clintonian in its combination of weakness and wishful thinking. The result in the 1990s was fecklessness and failure in Rwanda and Afghanistan and North Korea and the Middle East. The price will be even greater today.
ReplyDeleteBush has two more years. Whatever happens in November's elections, the country cannot afford his all-U.N.-all-the-time defensive crouch. It is not too late to increase the size of the military; to work with Japan, rather than kowtowing to China, on North Korea; to institute an interdiction regime around that country; to act with a coalition of the willing to bomb airfields and aircraft assisting genocide in Sudan; to help the democrats in and near Russia; to insist on real sanctions and pressure on Iran, backed by the threat of force; and generally to stop huffing and puffing about what is unacceptable and intolerable--only to then accept the unacceptable and tolerate the intolerable.
But it is getting late.
--William Kristol
Carbon foot prints are an essential part of 5GW 3TOR. There chief significance is economic, but the other side of the carbon footprint is the propaganda purposes. Liquidity in Carbon means liquidity in violence inspired by the dynamic nature of the measures. Expect upticks in Green extremism.
ReplyDeleteIs that you, wretchard?