On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:57:33 GMT 'Lennart Petersen'
wrote this on uk.politics.misc:
>> Smoking ban poses new climate threat
>>
>> By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent
>> Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 02/12/2007
>>
>> Pubs are likely to pump hundreds of thousands of tons of additional
>> carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as a result of the smoking ban.
>>
>> Policy advisers predict that emissions from patio heaters in pubs and
>> restaurants will increase from 22,200 tons of greenhouse gases a year
>> to up to 282,000 tons - the equivalent of flying a jumbo jet 171 times
>> around the Earth.
More NuLab policy blowback.
Next, they'll be banning patio heaters in bars/pubs.
Then they'll need some more jobsworths to carry out surveillance.
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