‘An alarming heatwave in the sunless winter Arctic...’

... is causing blizzards in Europe and forcing scientists to reconsider even their most pessimistic forecasts of climate change.

The North Pole - Where Temperatures Are 25°C (45°F) Above Normal - Is Warmer Than Europe This Weekend Due To A Melting Arctichttps://t.co/wWkPXufHzU #climate pic.twitter.com/vsmmvgXvF1

— Assaad Razzouk (@AssaadRazzouk) February 25, 2018

Whilst the world tries to wrestle with the problems of climate change and reduce CO2, consider that...

Cement production is the fastest-growing source of CO2 emissions according to recent UN Environmental Program Report, and accounts for 5-8% of world wide contribution.

Who’s the largest cement company in the world? LafargeHolcim of course, the same company that owns Aggregate Industries.

So we shouldn’t be surprised that AI couldn’t give a toss about the CO2 associated with its scheme to haul each load dug from Straitgate Farm a 46 mile round trip for processing - 2.5 million miles in all.

Neither should we be surprised that AI keeps pumping out greenwash like this:

Aggregate Industries... is continuing to demonstrate its commitment to combating climate change by hosting a Supplier Day on the 2nd March 2018

But those same blizzards referred to above no doubt put paid to any such event; AI’s website once boasted this but now looks like this.

And of course, if AI really had any commitment to combating climate change its CO2 emissions would not look like this: