Slack thinking on tackling global warming.

Haven't posted for a while as I've been busy building another website for my online photo-business. It is called rightplacerighttime.co.uk, but as its not finished I won't add a link yet.

However, my main point:

This week the media has been full of stories about Tory plans to tax aviation fuel. Actually, all they've really announced is the intention to consider taxing aviation fuel, so plenty of wriggle room there and I'll believe it when I see it, but...

Yet again the likes of the Daily Telegraph has trotted out the line that Heathrow is only an accessory to 0.1% of global CO2 emissions (although that actually sounds a lot to me) and why risk damaging this important economic driver when the Chinese are building a coal fired power station every 20 minutes (OK I exaggerate) and shouldn't we expect them to do something about that first?

The important point that the Telegraph misses, and almost everyone else who trots out this argument it seems, is not to do with the amount of CO2 we generate relative to China (or anywhere else), but with the frivolous nature of our energy consumption and related pollution. China may be building huge numbers of power stations - and I am concerned about that too - but they are building them so that they can have light and heat in their homes, not so they can take that third overseas holiday of the year.