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Times Monday 13th
Pg 1 Campaign story
"Electric car sales stall after cut to green grants"
..same old complexity ..cos of choice EV vs hybrid etc.
pg6 article continues
and full page of campaigning
..dream of magic batteries by Professor Bruce etc.
pg 24 opinion
"Britain can become an electric vehicle country by 2030
After 100 years of incremental change, we are on the cusp of a revolution on our roads. The age of the internal combustion engine is being consigned to history, but all too slowly. Today vehicles...
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/britain-can-become-an-electric-vehicle-country-by-2030-k9kndpsvf
Bridget Rosewell is commissioner at the National Infrastructure Commission and chairwoman of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
The Times paying subscribers as ever continue to give Green Propaganda articles like this, a kicking in the comments.
pg 22 CPRE full page advert about bottle deposit scheme
... doesn't mention the financial relationship it has with the equipment manufacturer
pg27 electric car editorials
Wed 22nd
Frontpage campaign story ..Siri &Alexa reinforce sexist stereotypes
BS cos Siri is male by default in UK
pg 4 covers British Stell problems
no photo, instead they put a half page photo on windturbines
.. labelled sunny today
pg5 single use plastic items to be banned ..straws etc.
pg 29 Opinion : "Global Warming" Britain should plant more foreign tree species
Letters ..name a green loony politician
...Lucas, Davey etc.
all signed a letter calling for pension funds to be banned from F Fuel investment
claim 250 MP divestment pledge
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/times-letters-lord-heseltine-and-the-removal-of-the-whip-h0z6k2cg2
another letter supports Packham on bring pro-deer culling
Editorial : "The Times view on British Steel: Steel Deal
The government should not sink taxpayers’ money into a declining sector"
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/the-times-view-on-british-steel-steel-deal-dnbd2djjw
Tuesday 21st
Frontpage campaign story .. "Traffic pollution CAN make Children more anxious"
quotes Kelly Brunst
.. Editorial as well
.. doh everything can make children anxious
pg20 real environment
photo of lane in Upton Gray Hampshire, waist deep in fly tipping
Monday 20th 20th
pg4 quotes Recoup
'OMG waste plastic is often secretly incinerated to create fuel"
doh not secret at all that 10% of plastic is
..it should be more.. but pseudo-green campaigners won't allow it.
pg13 Clean Air Campaign
pho kids dish out tickets to idling cars
.."2/3 of parents are concerned about air pollution on children"
(quotes Penny Woods)
..doh
pg21 quotes WWF & Buglife
CC and pesticides cause bees to vanish from east of England
...and loss of habitat
"25 species threatened
31 at risk
3 increasing
150 stable"
Pg 29 and editorial
article about Oz Climate election fail
Sat - pg 13
Heathrow to introduce pollution car toll
- first to ICE
- then in 2026 all cars
£10-15 per vehicle
So what ? somone will just open a carpark outside and run minibuses in
Law of unintended consequences etc.
pg20 DieselsRpaedos team
- PR story with XR collage "more that 129 Climate rallies yesterday"
- Scientists callfor pollution warnings on air fresheners
... This is a first sign of realism from the Times that NOx input is not a simple thing as proportional to traffic
but spraying in your bathroom could account for significant input of your daily NOx dose and VOC dose
Quotes
RCP
Stephen Holgate
Jonathan Grigg
Alastair Lewis of York Uni
The idiots have scared people from opening windows or having aircon
and so caused increased NOx or VOC input
Friday : Frontpage campaign story .. "Tell patients to ditch diesel doctors urged"
... em medical staff aren't allowed to preach a religion ..full stop.
Quotes Simon Stevens
says NHS has to get rid of diesel ambulance.
BS cos diesel can be clean.
Fri pg 2 Client Earth to sue gov over *toxic* roads
BS, cos outside WHO limits does NOT equal toxic
- Southampton study says that many large animals will become extinct
BS
The Times constructs the narrative that in Westminster
"Diesel drivers face £50 in fees to take car into city"
... actually the fee is from a 50% parking surcharge added to pre 2015 diesels not all
and by saying a vehicle will park for 4 hours they make that £28
then adding it to the ULEZ at £12
and Congestion charge at £11
...they get to £50
Monday pg 14 plugs EVs
item 2 is a repeat of the Centica story
plan to stick solar and giant battery banks at shopping centres to recharge EVs
...it will be wasteful
pg19 full page BP Greenwash article featuring little girl
Monday Thunderer colum
"A ban on diesels can't come quickly enough" by Martha Gill
BS
should we take diesel ambulances off the road ?
pg 38
Edi Truell is pushing plan for Iceland to UK electric cable
£2.5bn 1,000 mile
pg41 BHP half page advert
shows body of giant wind turbine
..we supply the copper ..and for electric cars
Early May in the ULEZ are the roads cleaner
only 29% of the vehicles are paying
This is reported as 70% of the vehicles are compliant
..Yeh that's BS cos many of them are dirty Prius hybrid Uber cars
Tuesday pg4
Fossil fuel ban ‘would save 30,000 lives a year in UK’
Yep more " PR not news"
that helps the Times mates in the Greenblob subsidy mafia
"28K EARLY deaths COULD"
became, "30K lives will" in the headline
..Raw early deaths is not a scientific metric cos do they mean 10 years or more likely half a day ?
QALYs life years is the metric.
EASAC didn't do new research, rather they tortured the data in old papers.
PR trickery.
pg39 FOE article against Druridge Bay coal mine
..strange cos it's already been approved