Comments on: Getting beaten by the Brits. http://www.greenyear.org/2007/01/31/getting-beaten-by-the-brits/ a keyboard, a calendar, and climate change Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:35:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Tom http://www.greenyear.org/2007/01/31/getting-beaten-by-the-brits/#comment-5 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:28:34 +0000 http://www.greenyear.org/2007/01/31/getting-beaten-by-the-brits/#comment-5 Some context... that Kyoto targets don't include aviation, which is rapidly increasing. Also, in the early 1990s the UK government replaced a lot of ageing coal-fired power stations with gas ones, partly as the end of the fight to close them down that brought on the huge miners' strikes. Most of that reduction figure came from this switch. Since 1997 when Labour came into power, if you include aviation then the UK's emissions are actually rising. Some context… that Kyoto targets don’t include aviation, which is rapidly increasing.

Also, in the early 1990s the UK government replaced a lot of ageing coal-fired power stations with gas ones, partly as the end of the fight to close them down that brought on the huge miners’ strikes. Most of that reduction figure came from this switch.

Since 1997 when Labour came into power, if you include aviation then the UK’s emissions are actually rising.

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