The price of meat, milk and other British farm products will have to rise to reflect the environmental cost of producing them, a government study has concluded.
A Cabinet Office review of food policy suggests that farmers and consumers should pay extra for farm goods that generate large amounts of greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide.
The proposal, the latest in a string of "green" plans that threaten to increase the cost of living, drew accusations that ministers were imposing taxes and regulations in the name of environmental policy.
....The Department for Business and Enterprise's new renewable energy strategy warned last month that household electricity bills could rise by 13 per cent and gas by 37 per cent to subsidise green energy sources, and
ministers remain under pressure to raise road taxes in an effort to cut emissions.
Telegraph.co.uk: 'Meat and milk prices will rise to reflect environmental costs'
Louis after reading James Peden I've changed my mind. The sheer intensity of the intellectual position was devastating. Anyway which position are you in the denialist brownshirt conga line - before or after Schiller?
If people could design facilities to "sequester" nitrous oxide, there would likely be many buyers lining up to purchase the gas.
Would they be eligible for Global Warming Credits?
There is one simple problem with this model - the sun's "heat" has to first pass through the atmosphere before it reaches the earth, so it's the atmosphere which heats the earth, not the earth the atmosphere. Simple physics.
Secondly when night falls, the atmosphere, no longer getting the heat from the sun, then has to equilibrate to the temperature of its surroundings - the earth beneath it which is hotter, and space which is colder - heat transfer is to space.
The hotter earth then conducts its thermal energy to the atmosphere which transfers it to space. So the theory goes.
Except for water as clouds or "vapour". Water acts as a physical barrier to heat leaving the earth into space.
But the thermal state of a planet is dependent on many factors, most of which remain unknown to modern science.
But one thing is certain - the CO2 content of the earth's atmosphere is an epiphenomenon of its thermal state.