Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Air travel 'as bad as stabbing person in the street', says MEP | Mail Online
A leading politician has sparked outrage by comparing people who fly to Spain on holiday with knife-wielding criminals.

Caroline Lucas, the leader of the Green Party, suggested that travellers who regularly jet off to the Costas are threatening the lives of others - and do as much damage as thugs who stab people in the street.
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When asked if flying to Spain was as bad as knifing a person in the street, Ms Lucas said: ‘Yes - because they are dying from climate change.’
April 13: Al Gore claims to be pleased at the "success" of his climate fraud
President Obama made cap-and-trade a centerpiece of his budget and Henry Waxman and Ed Markey, two powerful chairman and senior members of the House of Representatives, have introduced new climate legislation.
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The hardest part of this fight is yet to come and the legislative process is never easy, but we are much farther along right now than I’d ever imagined we would be.
April 10: Obama, Who Vowed Rapid Action on Climate Change, Turns More Cautious - NYTimes.com
But the administration, while insisting that its health care initiative be protected, did not fight to keep cap-and-trade in the budget resolutions that Congress passed last week, and it wound up in neither the House’s version nor the Senate’s.

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