The Carbon Neutral Town

BBC NEWS :

One community that is trying to become the first zero carbon village in England is Ashton Hayes, Cheshire.

Read the whole story: BBC NEWS

Comments

[judyx]

Hey, at least they're trying. There's nothing wrong with trying to be more environmentally responsible!

[hardrain77]

Great idea. Let's see how many industries stick around your town when they can go to China, India or Mexico and take advantage off all their excess, unregulated carbon.

This'll stop the outsourcing. Carbon neutral is silly. If we're so worried about excess carbon in the atmosphere, why don't we just start a Department of Arbor that just plants freakin' trees all day and saves us tax dollars and industry?

[Greenman7]

Great idea. Seems to me an initiative along those lines need to be the next entrepeneurial wave in The United States.

[JScott]

UK is famous for it's mills wonder if they thought of updating the design of a (dutch style) windmill to
provide power as well as its wind turbines, seems to me there would be less local objection.



As for the trolls response, you can bet they are a front to some corporate/­rethugevan­gelfunde anti global warming think tank....I dunno what their point is---business as usual....s­orry I think NOT!
They'll respond no their not, just an individual­.....that watches FNC et al, so go figure.

[Tom Joad]

So, tr011s, please tell me what is wrong with a community banding together to improve their environment? Why is that objectionable to you? Good for these people to take a leadership role and work to show the rest of us what is possible.

[ProperGanda]

As long as they are doing it happily, nothing is wrong with it!
If they were forced to do it, that would be a different story.

[indy100]

Yes because anytime people have to do things they aren't crazy about it's bad. You know like speed limits, zoning ordinances, paying taxes, going to work in order to get a paycheck, going to school. All bad ideas.

[Pquilson]

That is the point, isn't it? That they are doing it voluntarily. That would not be the case with the passage of cap and tax, would it?

[Volsr1]

1) Average annual temperatures have not surpassed 1998 (NOAA)
(University of Alabama)

2) Average annual temperatures are now trending downward since 1998
(NOAA) (University of Alabama)

3) Ocean temperatures have not risen since 2000 when the 3000 Argo buoys
were launched. The buoys even show a slight decrease in ocean temperatures

4) The Arctic ice froze to February levels by December 07, there are 1mm
more sq km than before (previous was 13mm sq km)

5) The Arctic ice is 20cm thicker than “normal” (whatever that is)

6) All polar bear pods are stable or growing (NOAA/PBS)

7) Mount Kilimanjaro is not melting because of global warming, rather
“sublimation”
The Antarctic is not “melting”, it is growing in most places, the
sloughing off at the edges is normal as the ice mass grows

9) The majority of the Antarctic is 8 degrees below “normal” (again,
whatever that is)

10) The coveted .7 degree rise in temperatures over the last 100 years
has been wiped out with last years below “normal” temperatures (NOAA
coolest winter since 2001)

11) Al Gore’s film was just deemed “propaganda” in a court of law in the
UK as many points could not be substantiated by scientists

12) It was also just reveled that some of the footage in Als film was
CGI. The ice shelf collapse was from the movie The Day After Tomorrow (ABC)

[DBtv]

The Earth is flat.

Big business must be allowed to destroy the environment without regulation and with impunity.

All else is socialism.

[Eeesh]

tin foil is a required accessory for those who follow the AlGore cult of Globalphobia

[alvdh1]

Liar, liar your pants are on fire. Another global warming denier. Go to today's St. Louis Post Dispatch editorial page and look at the temperature chart printed at the bottom of the lead editorial.
You are spreading lies and misinformation including the court ruling in England with regard to Al's book and movie.