Feb 9
Too bad Gore was there…
However its rather good to see than rather than whingeing and barracking people Branson is offering $25 million to a help spur development that lowers the amount of carbon in the enviroment. Instead of taxing the hell out of consumers and normal people, encouraging business to develop things is far more useful. Overwhelmingly people in the UK think that Gordo is just using these hystrionic reports to get more money out of Britons.
Update: Peter Hitchens skwered Gore and his ilk on Daily Politics. There was a bimbo sitting next to him who was aghast that he doubted global warming.
Update II: Bjorn Lomborg has hit back at his critics in The Guardian no less. Guess now that he is a real heretic they feel a bit sorry for him.
Update III: As you would expect Colby Cosh is all over this including writer a primer on the discounting debate.
Update IV: A piece on the real deniers you know the ones denying us a debate on the subject?
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Here is an idea. A good part of carbon emissions are caused by people commuting to work. Why don’t they just move to closer to their jobs? Easy, because Gordon Brown has made it too expensive to move house with stamp duty eating up thousands of pounds. So you have to spend thousands commuting to work, burning fuel and causing carbon emissions before it becomes worthwile doing the environmentally better thing and moving close to your work.
So stamp duty on moving house is like a huge PRO-carbon tax. If the Government say they are serious about cutting carbon dioxide emissions, they should abolish stamp duty.