The new UK policy regarding profiling the energy efficiency of your home as part of its sale will help reduce the UK’s co2 profile.

For example, there are still 10 million homes without cavity wall insulation, and 1 million with no loft insulation (via http://www.est.org.uk/). Here’s an interesting visualisation…

On The Great Global Warming Swindle.

“There will always be people with conspiracy theories trying to do down the scientific consensus, and that is part of scientific and democratic debate, but the science of climate change looks like fact to me. If the effect of the programme, instead of making people think, is in fact to make them disregard the accepted science (in other words stop thinking) then that would be a real swindle.”

In summary;

“7. There is no evidence that human emissions are causing the current warming trend.

This is not true.

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More than anything, even if you just don’t accept (or want) to believe any of the research, then all you need to accept is that using less energy is a good thing - there can be no doubt that if we want to provide power to another 2 billion people that being more efficient is mandatory.

This is a huge step forward.

“The government has unveiled plans to set a “legally binding” target to cut carbon emissions by 60% by 2050.”

Plans include:

# Targets to reduce carbon emissions by 60% by 2050 and between 26% and 32% by 2020

# Greater energy efficiency, with more consumers becoming “producers” of their own energy at home

# Investment in low-carbon fuels and technologies, such as carbon capture and storage, wind, wave and solar power

# Carbon “budgets” - which cap emissions levels - set every five years

# The government reporting annually to Parliament on its progress in controlling emissions

“Aviation represents 5%, so aviation is important but it’s one fifth as important for this big problem as domestic emissions.” . Mr Miliband added: “If we are going to fly more, we’ve got to do something else less. “In the end the planet doesn’t mind whether it’s an aviation emission or another emission.”

We’re also getting closer and closer to our big news here…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6444145.stm

Not entirely sure what Channel Four thinks it was doing, but this helps clear it up…

“the channel - is facing a serious challenge to its own credibility after one of the most distinguished scientists that it featured said his views had been “grossly distorted” by the film, and made it clear that he believed human pollution did warm the climate.”

The Independent