<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for British enviros worry Gordon Brown won’t be green]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by GRLCowan http://www.grist.org/article/blair-and-brown-and-climate-change/ Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:40:27 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/blair-and-brown-and-climate-change/1 More oil money!

That's always the answer, isn't it. More public petrodollars will inspire state-kept expressors of environmental concern to still greater insincerity in their opposition to carbon-burning -- or it would, if such a thing were possible.

--- G. R. L. Cowan, former hydrogen fan
Burn boron in pure oxygen for vehicle power

]]> More oil money!

That's always the answer, isn't it. More public petrodollars will inspire state-kept expressors of environmental concern to still greater insincerity in their opposition to carbon-burning -- or it would, if such a thing were possible.

--- G. R. L. Cowan, former hydrogen fan
Burn boron in pure oxygen for vehicle power

]]> Comment #2 by eteChSupport http://www.grist.org/article/blair-and-brown-and-climate-change/ Tue, 12 Sep 2006 03:00:21 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/blair-and-brown-and-climate-change/2 Stop Climate Chaos.

I think the UK Government should find the way to stop climate Chaos.

]]> Stop Climate Chaos.

I think the UK Government should find the way to stop climate Chaos.

]]> Comment #3 by seamusenright http://www.grist.org/article/blair-and-brown-and-climate-change/ Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:55:43 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/blair-and-brown-and-climate-change/3 Too Little, Too Late

In Brown's last budget he finally succumbed to pressure to place vehicle tax on SUVs but left it at a miserable GBP40 per annum; as petrol costs nearly 4 pounds a gallon, this is a pittance.

As if this isn't enough, he kowtowed to middle class voters by agreeing to continue with Britain's new independent nuclear deterrent, trident.

The good news is that Brown hates to travel outside the UK, so that might reduce the governments ecological footprint a tad.

This is more than can be said for David Cameron, who went to Norway to see the impact of Gloabl Warming on retreating glaciers... by Private Jet!

D'Oh!

]]> Too Little, Too Late

In Brown's last budget he finally succumbed to pressure to place vehicle tax on SUVs but left it at a miserable GBP40 per annum; as petrol costs nearly 4 pounds a gallon, this is a pittance.

As if this isn't enough, he kowtowed to middle class voters by agreeing to continue with Britain's new independent nuclear deterrent, trident.

The good news is that Brown hates to travel outside the UK, so that might reduce the governments ecological footprint a tad.

This is more than can be said for David Cameron, who went to Norway to see the impact of Gloabl Warming on retreating glaciers... by Private Jet!

D'Oh!

]]> Comment #4 by Newsquoter http://www.grist.org/article/blair-and-brown-and-climate-change/ Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:37:39 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/blair-and-brown-and-climate-change/4 World Wildlife Fund agrees:

The WWF has also criticised Tony Blair for not having followed through on his environmental credentials:
UK Government has abandoned its target for reducing emissions

]]> World Wildlife Fund agrees:

The WWF has also criticised Tony Blair for not having followed through on his environmental credentials:
UK Government has abandoned its target for reducing emissions

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