IPCC report on GLOBAL WARMING - we must act now!

Actually stuff is being done, but no one is reporting it, because the newspapers prefer scary headlines of the "you must all live like you are in the stone age" rather than report the unsexy things that are being done that will have a bigger impact on the climate than if we all switched to low-energy light bulbs. For instance, in December 2006, all the member states of the EU agreed to bring airlines into the carbon trading scheme, which means that the airlines will be capped as to how much CO2 they can produce and will have to offset this by planting trees, or by switching to more efficient planes or purchasing credits from low-emitters. Here's the important bit: this applies to all flights within the EU from 2011 and all flights TO and FROM the EU by 2012. Given that practically every airline on earth flies to Europe, ALL the airlines in the world will have to reduce their CO2 emmissions! And they have just five years to make the changes - some smart airlines will be ordering more efficient planes now (because of the time it takes to make them). This is massive, but is getting no coverage in the press. The press continues to focus on punishing people in Britain (it's almost as though they are on a mission to make tackling climate change as unpleasant as possible), even though if we all cycled everywhere, the emissions saved will be used up in a couple of days by the rest of the world, if the other countries don't do anything too. The only solution is multilateral agreements between governments such as the one the EU just agreed. Trying to put everything on individuals while corporations get off scott free doesn't work. Trying to put all the onus on little Britain while the rest of the world does nothing won't work. And silver bullet solutions, such as the one Richard branson is seeking don't exist. The only solution is a network of treaties between countries covering loads of things - not just airlines, but energy power stations, and manufacturing. If you want to read more on the EU directive, see http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/1862&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN BTW, the Americans are very upset about the EU directive because it applies to their planes too. There'll be a massive fight coming up, which is why publicity is needed. The EU can only win this if public opinion is behind it.