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Campaigners say airport expansion is ‘insane’ following IPCC report
As the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that heating from humans has caused irreparable damage to the Earth that may get worse in the coming decades, activists say that the report “gives an unanswerable reason” to reject Bristol Airport’s expansion.
The decision over whether the airport is able to expand is currently being decided at a public inquiry in Weston-super-Mare.
Bristol Airport Action Network (BAAN) says that the report is one of the strongest reasons yet to show that the airport cannot go ahead with their plans for an extra two million passengers a year.
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BAAN spokesperson Richard Baxter said: “This new IPCC report is frighteningly disturbing and clearly confirms that we should be doing everything in our power to urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“It is too late to stop climate change. So we must act now and act decisively to lessen the impact on the human population and the environmental systems that we rely on for life.
“Soaring temperatures resulting in life threatening wildfires and flooding around the world are plain to see.
“It is therefore insane that the planning inquiry is considering plans to expand Bristol Airport that if agreed, will literally fan the flames of the perilous situation we already face.”
Baxter added: “We know that any decision to expand the airport will result in increased emissions because the aviation industry is not in the position to decarbonise with alternative sustainable fuels or new aircraft technology any time soon; electric or hydrogen aircraft will not be able to fly internationally for many, many year and it will be too late for our climate by then.”
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