"This is barking mad. We're an island – how else are we going to leave it from time to time? By rowing boat?"
The title was from a comment in the London Times on this story about Carbon Taxes on air travel to/from Britain. h/t to Leif Svalgaard. Passengers face new tax to halt rise in air travel Tens of billions of pounds will have to be raised through flight taxes to compensate developing countries for the damage…