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   AJH & AJH Enviro from London says:

   Nov 12, 19:29

   Hi Eva
   The notable countries that refused to sign the Kyoto protocol were America and Australia, India and China were exempted because they are developing nations. China has now made a pledge to adopting renewable generation, if I remember 14%.
   Tony Blair volunteered the uk to 20% Co2 reduction, the EU have now adopted this level as well.
   Although the government don�t fund research they have made the electricity suppliers generate 20% of their energy using renewable energy, they have done much work in setting up the carbon trading program, we have had three sets of grants for those who wish to install renewable energy equipment, the climate change bill, tax on airlines and gas large cars, maybe you don�t think this is much but no other uk government has done as much.
   
   
   In the USA many individual states have now signed the Kyoto protocol and now even Bush acknowledges climate change, and has announced a government funded research program to find alternative to petrol, there is also existing research in to using coal to oil. California is leading environmental followed by New York, There are extensive wind farms in the USA and there is such demand for large wind turbines there is a 3 year waiting list.
   
   In the uk and the USA the energy companies are privatised so it�s no surprise the respective governments don�t fund energy research.
   
   Most research done by the OEM, for example we now have the 5th generation of large wind turbines and they are much more efficient than the earlier ones, the very large turbines can pay for them self�s in 4 years. You might have seen Eon advertising on TV ? 3 years ago the government gave permission for an of shore wind farm reaching from the tip of Scotland to Cornwall, Denmark had of shore wind farms 20 years ago.

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   iain from romford says:

   Nov 11, 16:17

   Most of the current global warming is being caused by the natural warming processes which have been gently warming the earth over hundreds of thousands of years. We are currently in a warm period which, if previous observations are correct, are leading us towards the next ice age. This is normal and part of this planets natural process. I agree we need to reduyce carbon emissions but we need to be reasonable about the targets set. I need to see some of the so called green taxes being used for this purpose not for lining the pockets of mps!

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   Eva from Wales says:

   Nov 10, 14:22

   AJH Environmentalist from London says:
   
   �Tim from Cambs
   America is doing a lot more than you might think, dont listen to the media on these issues.
   we have allready lowered our CO2 output and have plans in place to continue this trend.�
   
   
   
   I have to disagree and ask you to produce anything you have that supports your argument AJH Environmentalist?
   
   
   From what I have read, despite the dire consequences of global warming and the predictions made by scientists, governments everywhere have failed to take serious action to stem the tide of climate change.
   
   
   Government investment in energy research and development has actually declined over the last few decades in every major economic power except Japan.
   In the U.S. this investment is now less than half of its 1979 level, and only 1/20th of what is spent on military research (NY Times, 10/30/06). To make matters worse, only 7.6% of this spending goes to research into renewable energy technologies (IEA, 2/14/06). Are you saying that these figures have changed?
   
   
   The USA did not even sign up to the limited progress that might be made through signing up to the Kyoto Accords. Neither did some of the other biggest polluters such as China and India. Even for those countries that did sign up to the target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 5% by the year 2012, we have evidence of a complete failure, with most of those countries not meeting those targets.

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   Concerned from dining room says:

   Nov 9, 09:32

   This is such a big subject!! I find it ironic that the uk is 'setting ethical targets' regarding carbon emissions, yet buying more and more products cheaply from polluting countries like China and India...often incidentally involving the use of child labour...but that's another issue entirely!

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   LS from Edinburgh says:

   Nov 4, 12:44

   Proposals to 'claim' to reduce our carbon emissions by 60% are sheer stupidity. In 10-20 years time we will all have a laugh at the collective lunacy called 'climate change' which so gripped the world.

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