Aviation accounts for 13% of UK CO2 emissions

Carbon dioxide emissions from the extra flights at Stansted if the expansion is permitted will increase from five million tonnes to seven million tonnes a year - the equivalent of the emissions that would be saved if every home in the UK switched all its lightbulbs to energy saving bulbs.

The damage is already being felt in the Arctic as Innuit villages are overtaken by the sea and the ice thins enough for hunters to fall through and drown.