Breathing Earth

[TheSuperbell]

UK

http://www.breathingearth.net/

Population of 70 Million

One death every 51.5 seconds

One birth every 48.6 Seconds

Our death and birth rates are pretty much the most stable, then any other country!

[Papi]

And your point is?

[TheSuperbell]

And your point is?

"Our death and birth rates are pretty much the most stable, then any other country!" a better country? what else do u think the point is u plum?

[Papi]

Yeah, you keep basking in your glory :rolleyes:

PS. It should be "than any other country" not "then"

[TheSuperbell]

Yeah, you keep basking in your glory

PS. It should be "than any other country" not "then"

Glory?....lollll alright im sorry, forgive me for my mistake

btw do you have anythin against me, seems you been targetting my posts for a bit now :D

[lowest of the low singhni]

Britons creating 'more emissions'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8283909.stm

Greenhouse gas emissions created by Britons are probably twice as bad as figures suggest, says the government's new chief energy scientist.

Professor David MacKay told the BBC that reductions in carbon dioxide emissions since 1990 are "an illusion".

"Our energy footprint has decreased over the last few decades and that's largely because we've exported our industry," he said.

Developing countries now made the goods that Britain buys, he added.

He was speaking unofficially in a previously recorded interview, but his comments will increase pressure on the UK to improve its offer of emissions cuts at the upcoming climate change talks.

"Other countries make stuff for us so we have naughty, naughty China and India out of control with rising emissions but it's because they are making our stuff for us now," he said.

"It's been estimated by Dieter Helm from the University of Oxford that roughly half of our energy footprint actually lives overseas so our true footprint is twice as big as it looks on paper."

Prof Helm's paper suggests if the UK counted "embedded" emissions, its total pollution would have gone up not down.

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What a great country

[TheSuperbell]

Britons creating 'more emissions'

http://news.bbc.co.u...ech/8283909.stm

Greenhouse gas emissions created by Britons are probably twice as bad as figures suggest, says the government's new chief energy scientist.

Professor David MacKay told the BBC that reductions in carbon dioxide emissions since 1990 are "an illusion".

"Our energy footprint has decreased over the last few decades and that's largely because we've exported our industry," he said.

Developing countries now made the goods that Britain buys, he added.

He was speaking unofficially in a previously recorded interview, but his comments will increase pressure on the UK to improve its offer of emissions cuts at the upcoming climate change talks.

"Other countries make stuff for us so we have naughty, naughty China and India out of control with rising emissions but it's because they are making our stuff for us now," he said.

"It's been estimated by Dieter Helm from the University of Oxford that roughly half of our energy footprint actually lives overseas so our true footprint is twice as big as it looks on paper."

Prof Helm's paper suggests if the UK counted "embedded" emissions, its total pollution would have gone up not down.

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What a great country

Ah gotta love the argument : therefore why bother about cars/energy generation/heat generation, the real problem is the Cow , I tell you !

This is a silly thing to point out. First of all, duh, of course living creatures put out more CO2 than cars and trucks, there are a lot more of them and they are around longer than the average car. You want to be horrified? Add birds and insects to the total.

But there is a self-regulating process in place with respect to animals and the plants they eat that convert CO2 back to oxygen. There is no such mechanism for cars, vehicles, etc.

The point is that you can control the vehicular sources of CO2 and still having vehicles. We don't want to do this for some inexplicable reason.

Cows are the real problem, and i can only say it's best if.....

[Khalasthan86]

the birth thing was obvious, loads of sule (and suliya) in uk

[Amrit79]

the birth thing was obvious, loads of sule (and suliya) in uk

Today, the Muslim birth rate in Europe is three times higher than the non-Muslim one. If current trends continue, the Muslim population of Europe will nearly double by 2015, while the non-Muslim population will shrink by 3.5 percent.

http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2003/03middleeast_taspinar.aspx