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[DimPrawn]

Apparently that scheme was abolished as people were planting trees just to get the tax breaks. You know there's nothing more GB hates than people using one of his schemes to take advantage of the tax breaks.

There's nothing worse than people taking advantage of tax breaks open to them. Greedy bastards.

[Emperor Dalek]

Do we still have any tax breaks for planting trees?

Apparently that scheme was abolished as people were planting trees just to get the tax breaks. You know there's nothing more GB hates than people using one of his schemes to take advantage of the tax breaks.

[DimPrawn]

Once it's grown you harvest and sell it as biomass to your local powerstation for use as fuel.
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That's a bit silly isn't it? You cannot burn the trees otherwise it releases all the Carbon it has absorded back into the atmosphere, negating the whole point of trapping the carbon in the wood.

When the tree dies we have to encase them in lead and bury them in stone 5 miles below the earths surface.

[DaveB]

The average UK person can offset their carbon footprint by planting 10 trees a year.

Therefore I want to receive a tax credit from Gordon Brown for every tree I plant. It's only "fair"

I'd then buy some cheap land and plant 10,000 trees and live tax free for the rest of my life.

HTH

Wrong approach. You should be selling your "carbon capacity" to producers for a hefty profit! Once it's grown you harvest and sell it as biomass to your local powerstation for use as fuel.

Quick growing willow species are ideal for this.

[DimPrawn]

The average UK person can offset their carbon footprint by planting 10 trees a year.

Therefore I want to receive a tax credit from Gordon Brown for every tree I plant. It's only "fair"

I'd then buy some cheap land and plant 10,000 trees and live tax free for the rest of my life.

HTH

[Paddy]

Every year, as well as more CO2, the world has less vegetation to convert it.

Do we still have any tax breaks for planting trees?

We should get together an organise a carbon neutral charity. We invite members to contribute a sum of money to the charity equal to the carbon they produce. The money would go towards planting trees in Brazil.

In other words we make a fortune an stash it in a Brazilin Bank and in return we stick a few seeds in the rain forest. We can even email them colour pics.

[Ruprect]

The emporer shows his true colours. The conspiracy theorists amongst you will no doubt be sitting back smugly saying "I told you HMRC watched these boards"

[stackpole]

Every year, as well as more CO2, the world has less vegetation to convert it.

Do we still have any tax breaks for planting trees?

[Emperor Dalek]

Look DP, I'm going to put up taxes whether you like it or not and I bet you a chip to a bagful that the imminent environmental apocalypse then fails to appear, sorry, is averted.

Surely then the only conclusion is that I was right and you were wrong.

On top of that, all those town hall staff will be able to retire on full pensions at 50. So you see, it really is win-win, and you filthy disgusting middle classes with your Chelsea tractors and new build 4 bedroom executive houses will be the biggest winners of all, as you can relax in the warm glow of your own selflessness.

Gordon Brown.

[DimPrawn]

Human cause of global warming

Can anyone point me to sound scientific evidence that global warming today is caused by man made activity?

If man did not exist, how much of today's global warming would be present?

If man ceased all global warming activity, what would be the result?

How much of global warming is due to CO2 and how much is due to other causes (other gases, natural cycles, etc)?

Personally I do not see any evidence to suggest that stopping all CO2 emmissions would reverse the global trend for warming.

I think there is more truth to the 45 minutes to deploy WoMD than man-made global warming and all this sudden focus on Carbon emissions and TAXATION.

[Ardesco]

Happy birthday Ardesco.

Cheers DP

[Emperor Dalek]

Look, Buffoon, just stop bucking the universal consensus and pay your green taxes. There are literally millions of unfunded public sector pensions out there. Just you wait and see, as soon as I introduce those taxes climate catastrophe will fail to appear so I will have been right and you wrong.

Gordon Brown.

[Buffoon]

More from the Telegraph.

I used to be willing to believe all this global warming stuff. Now I think it's just more socialist crap.

There may be very good reasons to do 'green' things. But it has been hi-jacked by anti-capitalists.

[DimPrawn]

Happy birthday Ardesco.

[Ardesco]

It's all a load of tosh, recycling is a valid way to "save the earth". reducing CO2 is not really going to change much. Soon we will be having "Green Warriors" in an all out battle against "Animal Rights Activists" with the former starting a campain to stick a cork up every cows bum to stop them farting and releasing "dangerous" greenhouse gasses while the animal rights lot decry the cruelty of sticking corks up cows bums and campaigning for the right to fart....

The biggest joke about all of this is that the green mob scream and shout about the use of fossil fuels and how much damage they do to the earth but suggest nuclear and they make an even bigger fuss. Nuclear is far cleaner, far more efficient and if burried underground and kept away from the population reasonably safe. Why aren't the green mob demanding we build more nuclear power stations???