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During a recent parliamentary debate on the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband noted that the 17 countries of the Major Economies Forum accepted the long-held scientific consensus that work is needed to prevent a global temperature rise above 2 degrees.
However, it seems there is still some debate about global warming within parliament. Conservative backbencher Peter Lilley said that, without nuclear power, the Government’s ‘already overambitious’ targets would become pure fantasy. He believed that the models generating predictions of the effect of carbon on the environment were ‘deeply unreliable’.
Conservative MP John Gummer responded that if Mr Lilley’s analysis was right, it would still be a worthwhile task to address shortages of resources, and if he was wrong, he would lead the world to disaster. Therefore, he proposed that his views be ignored, “as I have had to do for the past 12 years”.
Rt Hon John Gummer MP
Rt Hon Peter Lilley MP
Source: Carbon Challenge
A plan to build a 6,000km-long wall across the Sahara Desert to stop the spread of the desert has been outlined.
The barrier – formed by solidifying sand dunes – would stretch from Mauritania in the west of Africa to Djibouti in the east.
The plan was put forward by architect Magnus Larsson at the TED Global conference in Oxford.
A 2007 UN study described desertification as “the greatest environmental challenge of our times”.
“The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand,” said Mr Larsson, who describes himself as a dune architect.
The sand would be stabilised by flooding it with bacteria that can set it like concrete in a matter of hours.
North African nations have promoted the idea of planting trees to form a Great Green Belt to prevent the spread of the sand.
A similar proposal – known as the Green Wall of China – has also been proposed to stop the spread of the Gobi Desert.
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