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Britain introduces sweeping climate-change bill

UK politicians aim to lead the world on long-term carbon cuts.

The British government today revealed its draft climate bill, which sets out plans for a 60% cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. The bill makes Britain the first major economy to lay out a comprehensive scheme for making wholesale greenhouse-gas reductions.

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Posted by Mike Hopkin on March 13, 2007 06:29 PM |

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good on britain for pledging to such ambitious reductions. america should be ashamed it hasnt even signed up to kyoto.

shame on you george bush

Posted by: marty k | March 13, 2007 07:56 PM

Anyone can see the effects of globalwarming happening live on all the satellite and data feeds at www.globalboiling.com .

Posted by: geoguy | March 14, 2007 05:22 AM

Martin Durkin's program on Channel 4, "The Great Global Warming Swindle" looks to have been very well scheduled indeed. Did someone in the government tip off someone at Channel 4 perhaps in order to raise popular opposition to this policy before it was announced? I will be curious to see if it is quoted as a legitimate counter-claim to this policy announcement.

Posted by: Eric Likness | March 15, 2007 01:02 AM

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