Aviation accounted for 0.78% of total business turnover, a smaller proportion than the machinery rental sector. Yet it produced 13% of the UK\’s greenhouse gas emissions.
BBC:
Currently, aircraft produce about 5.5% of UK emissions.
AirportWatch statement on the contribution of aviation to UK\’s total carbon emissions. It is either around 13% or 20%, depending how you calculate it.
Someone\’s lying. Who?
Oh, the rest of George\’s piece is fun too. How badly the government has made a cock of planning. Which is why, of course, we need more planning. By government.
Airport Watch are unequivocally lying.
Monbiot and the BBC aren’t, although they are both misleadingly precise – 5-20% are all estimates that have been produced of aviation’s share of UK CO2 emissions, based on various different methodologies.
but I thought avaiation was so essential to our economy that we needed to build a third runway at heathrow and ensure that everyone living in London can enjoy planes flying over them at low levels from 5am every day?
Different methodologies indeed, jb.
Do any of them include livestock? Or humans exhaling (in a long sigh)?
Bah. Carbon Auditors coming soon, to a business near you.
Then, to your home.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/public_sector/article6639289.ece
(from Kathy, comment on wattsupwiththat.com)