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Jack Kessler

OPINION - Green Day: Britain to miss key climate targets

If publishing new and revised UK government documents on subjects relating to climate change had a cooling effect on the planet, scientists could forget about global warming and instead worry about an imminent ice age.

Carbon Brief’s Simon Evans has put together a handy Google Doc listing all the documents (44) and the total number of pages (2,840) released today (so far). But the most important figure is this: Britain is set to miss its legally binding sixth carbon budget. In other words, we are still emitting far too much CO2.

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