BUDGET A REALITY CHECK

British Prime Minster Gordon Brown's Chancellor, Alistair Darling, has shown in his latest budget the reality of his government's commitment to reduce CO2, which is they will pay lip-service to it but nothing more. (Thank goodness!) Targets set for 2050 are a lot lower down the agenda than keeping the economy going. It seems highly unlikely to me that any government that has to be re-elected will put in place the drastic measures needed to cut CO2. That is not to say that what they do do is not going to cause considerable pain anyway.

Professor Philip Stott has this excellent piece on his blog which sums up the situation perfectly.