EEA GLOBAL WARMING
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has - for a change - some good news to crow about regarding greenhouse gases, with the European Environment Agency (EEA) saying the old 15 member EU's emissions fell by 0.5% from 2001-2, following increases in the previous two years. The dip, noted the EEA, took "the EU a small step closer to its target of an 8% cut within the next eight years". Sadly, proactive anti-global warming measures were not top of the agency's reasons for the cut. These included warmer weather, which ironically limited the combustion of CO2 ...
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