Summary
Department for Transport figures demonstrate that cars in Britain emit twice as much carbon dioxide as aircraft, even if you include all international flights to and from this country as well as domestic services. Sir David King, the British government's former Chief Scientific Adviser, recently remarked on the unfairness of airlines becoming 'the new villains' of the climate change debate when they produce 1.6 percent of global carbon dioxide - a proportion that was 'unlikely to rise significantly'.
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Climate On the Runway
mANY PEOPLE BELIEVE that airlines are one of the biggest sources of global greenhouse gases, and that expansion of aviation must therefore be opposed at all costs. The extent of this view was underlined again at the end of January when the British government released statistics showing that forty percent of the pu...
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