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PARIS (AFP) — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown causes more greenhouse-gas emissions than three other major European leaders, according to a report on Monday in Terra Eco, a French environmental monthly.
Last year Brown emitted more than 8,400 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) or its equivalent on official trips, it said.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was second, with 7,400 tonnes, followed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, 7,100 tonnes and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, with 6,700 tonnes.
Sarkozy flew 324,000 kilometres (202,500 miles), compared with 175,000 kms (109,000 miles) each for Zapatero and Merkel and 158,000 kms (98,750 miles) for Brown.
Brown, though, caused more carbon pollution because he flies in larger or less fuel-efficient jets, according to Terra Eco’s calculations.
Sarkozy flies in an Airbus A 319, Merkel in an A 310 and Zapatero in an A 310 and Super Puma.
Downing Street declined to say what type of aircraft is used by Brown, citing security reasons, Terra Eco said.
Based on information from other journalists and aviation experts, the monthly made its calculations in the belief that he uses a mix of Boeing 747, 757 and 777.
By way of comparison, a large saloon car of average fuel efficiency emits around five tonnes of CO2 per year, based on a distance of 20,000 kms (12,000 miles).
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Sirs, Al Gore’s inconvenient truth is comparable to Hans Christian Anderson’s The Emporer’s New Clothes. What in fact is happening is that the Earth in spinning developed a little wobble which moved the axis by about half a degree. This changes the way sunlight strikes the earth bringing the changes we see now. It is not something that people can do anything about,we did not cause it, we just have to learn to live with it. Carbon Dioxide is about point zero three percent of the atmosphere
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