I have to restrain myself from throwing things when I hear the latest Labour politician sprouting the nonsensical line “Britain is an international leader in the fight against climate change” … and here’s the unarguable figures:
…figures revealed last week in an obscure government report – snappily entitled Development of an Embedded Carbon Emissions Indicator – tell a much more sobering story. Produced by the Stockholm Environment Institute and Sydney University for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), it concludes that Britain is responsible for 200 million more tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year than official figures admit, an increase of 37 per cent.
And whereas Britain has been officially reporting that its emissions have declined by 5 per cent since 1992, the report says that the true picture reveals that instead they rose by 18 per cent.
And there’s more bad news from Australia – about five minutes after the drought declarations were lifted, 65% of NSW is again in drought – and the locusts are on the way.
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