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Politicians warm to world’s most pressing issue



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Published Date: 11 October 2008
By Charles Henderson
OLD fashioned debates are all the rage, and so is climate change. A Question Time style event this week gathered politicians and activists to present their solutions to the world’s most pressing issue. Organised by Stop Climate Chaos, a coalition of green and development organisations, it brought together three of the main parties – with the other two, feebly, “unable to contribute”.
Labour was represented by Sarah Boyack, MSP and Mark Lazarowicz MP, the SNP by Rob Gibson MSP, and the Greens by Patrick Harvie, heir apparent to their wicker throne.

Two other green thinkers added sensible substance: Dan Barlow, of WWF Scotland, ...



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1

nabodican,

Rural Scotland 11/10/2008 06:40:07
What a non story about a bunch of ill informed useless politicians bumping their gums about something they know nothing about and can do even less about.

FOR GOD'S SAKE SCOTSMAN, DUMP THIS COLUMN NOW!!
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nabodican,

Rural Scotland 11/10/2008 06:43:34
What a non story about a bunch of ill informed politicians bumping their gums about something they know little about and can do even less about.

FOR GOD'S SAKE SCOTSMAN - DUMP THIS COLUMN NOW !!
3

Unimpressed one,

11/10/2008 09:23:28
Glad to see we've got our priorities right then. Banks crashing, whole countries going down the toilet, charities and councils losing millions, thousands of jobs threatened.

For fu*cks sake, can just one green lunatic answer the following simple question? If CO2 is so destructive in their minds, how the hell can we bury it then hope for the best? Surely it would need to be protected for aeons - even longer than radioactive waste - lest it cause some future 'climate chaos' by leaking to the atmosphere. Christ, talk about insanity writ large.
4

seanie,

11/10/2008 09:52:59
It would depend on the rate it leaked and the level of CO2 in the atmosphere at the time.

 

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