Airline pilots call for talks with climate change protesters

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LONDON (AFP) — The British Airline Pilots' Association called Saturday for talks with demonstrators staging an ongoing climate change protest at Heathrow airport west of London.

Several hundred activists have set up temporary home near the village of Harlington, close to Heathrow, in a tented village called the "Camp for Climate Action."

"We would like to come to a common understanding about carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft," said Captain Mervyn Granshaw, chairman of the BALPA trade union.

"In our recent report ... we laid out the facts that aircraft are minor polluters, that air travel is not the fastest-growing source of emissions and that most flights, compared with other transport modes, are green.

"The eco-warriors and some environmental...