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Emissions rise as economy sort of flops about

Britain's greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise, thanks to the greenest Government in history.

The recession caused by excessive public libraries and the NHS resulted in large falls in emissions during 2009, thus exposing the dangerous economic incompetence of the environmental lobby as compared with the likes of George Osborne and Eric Pickles.

However, last year the economy picked up thanks to the increases in consumer confidence which resulted from the coalition's promise to throw half a million people out of work.

Thanks to the firm and decisive actions of the greenest Government in history, Britain has fallen from third to thirteenth place on international league tables for investment in low-carbon fuel and technology.

The Treasury has responded by opposing attempts by the Committee on Climate Change to impose a target of a 60% cut in greenhouse emissions over 20 years, on the grounds that the present financial crisis makes a good excuse for not even bothering to pretend.

Emissions also rose due to the snow in winter, which the Treasury said was also to blame for the lack of recovery in the recovery.

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