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U.S. and Europe battle over aviation emissions

Remember when global climate change was a big issue? Today, we read so much less about it, and so many people have been led to believe it's not a problem, you wonder if the world has started getting colder again. Hmmmm .... Here's a place to start the debate again: What effect does air travel have on the climate? It isn't surprising that there is sharp disagreement between European regulators and others, includuing U.S. and Chinese airlines, over a carbon-emissions trading system (or scheme in European English) that the EU plans to implement in 2012. Read what the dispute is about here ....