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Article: Dump cars, nix air travel, climate alarmists say.(Inside Track)
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- The New American
- Article date:
- March 31, 2008
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"The car is doomed," says Damon Honnery, an associate professor at Australia's Monash University. In an interview with the Melbourne newspaper The Age, Prof. Honnery discussed the findings of his soon-to-be-published research paper, "Mitigating Greenhouse: Limited Time, Limited Options," written with Dr. Patrick Moriarty.
Car travel should be cut by 80 percent, road construction halted, air travel drastically cut, and public transport boosted if Australia is to meet carbon emission targets set by the Kyoto Protocol. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Labor government signed on to the UN climate change treaty last December at the Bali conference on global warming.