On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:17:41 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Much more telling is Lithuania being forced to TOTALLY CLOSE a nuclear
plant 'because its the same type as chernobyl' before being allowed to
join the EU, despite the fact that it could easily have been made safe
enough to run till the new one was built.

Thus adding instantly billions of tons of CO2 to the EU totals.

They will be forced to buy their power from outside the EU, so it won't
effect the totals (for the EU). So that is ok then....


That's like Britain's manufacturers taking production facilities from
the UK and making their goods in the far east instead. The result is
something like a 20% drop in CO2 emissions, and NuLabour are patting
themselves on the back for this "achievement".

But the real cost of exporting manufacturing production is that the
goods are made in factories that are powered by China's grossly
polluting coal fired power stations and shipped to the UK with ships
that belch CO2 along with some really toxic nasties. Apparently, the
overall change in Britain's CO2 emissions if this Chinese malarkey is
taken into account is an *increase* of 28%.

But that's OK, because emissions from Chinese factories and the ships
do not contribute to the UK's Kyoto target.