Campaign Day #2 : May 10th
Friday : a special from the Times #DieselsRpaedos team
Front page : "Wake up to air pollution"
Quotes - Health Minister Matt Hancock

pg 11-12
Examples of 6 people all in London
pg12
- Great Smog is deadly warning
quotes Gary Fuller
- Toxic School leads fight
- How polluted is your school

XR pair, including founder Hallam spray painted King's College wall
and then the jury found them not guilty of criminal damage.
..travesty

same page
Survey finds people more Green politics
more concerned about CC 80%
35% very concerned
more against fracking 40%
more supportive of onshore wind farms 79%

Letters page 4 anti diesel's letters

Times leader also (very few comments)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2019-05-10/comment/the-times-view-on-fighting-air-pollution-dirty-politics-q0m7wn5hh
Times gets the usual
Few people interested in it just 5 comments

\\ Correct. My middle son was diagnosed with asthma at the age of 5 and spent all night every night coughing. The Doctors gave him a plethora of inhalers and tablets.
One day after reading an article on the web I cleared the carpets out of his bedroom and all his stuff under the bed. REplaved with wood flooring. Changed the mattress and bedding for hypoallergenic.
Within a week the coughing stopped and the inhalers went in the bin.
I would suggest may kids in cities live in poorly ventilated properties surrounded by man made materials and dust mites //

Campaign Day #3 : May 11th
Saturday
mag 4 pages on Sadiq plus 2 pages of photos
claim he has adult onset asthma

pg 6-7
5 stories
but obvious bogus graph on Aus solar cos pits capacity

pg 9
mad Shuckleburgh
dirty beaches

letters 4 pages in support of Times campaign
plus CPRE anti-fracking letter

- New Laureate Simon Armitage backs Times clean air campaign with power of his poetry

Matt Hancock praised parents for taking action but Michael Gove resisted calls for a new Clean Air Act
Air pollution: Ban toxic cars at school drop-off, urges Hancock
Ben Webster, Environment Editor

Sir James Dyson: I’ll take action on air pollution — even if PM won’t
Sir James Dyson

The Vertical Forest in Milan, with its steel-reinforced balconies, would cover 20,000 square metres of woodland
How other countries are reducing air pollution

Twenty hydrogen powered double-deckers will be on roads in London from next year
Air pollution: Double-decker bus releases zero exhaust emissions
Graeme Paton, Transport Correspondent

Damage to the Arctic is so severe that new approaches must be considered
Cambridge explores blue‑sky ideas to cool planet
Rhys Blakely, Science Correspondent

Wildlife in peril as British beach clean-up fails
Rhys Blakely, Science Correspondent

The Times air pollution campaign: our manifesto for clean air

Every school in London has been found to be over the WHO’s recommended limit for air pollution
Join The Times clean air campaign to tackle pollution

** That's all on 1 day , The Times running about 15 air pollution stories

That last 'join our campaign' article generated only 39 comments
Top comment
\\ How stupid of me thinking of The Times as a news outlet and not a campaigner for either this or that! Its hardly the mission for a "newspaper" to initiate campaigns of any kind. Can we please be needed with proper news instead of being brain washed by the PC army?
I'm sick and tired of being told what to think and believe by unelected media The Times included.
Why not go back to basics and report news and even more importantly put political parties and politicians against the wall? //
next comments shout "population"

#3 & #4 rated comments
\\ This subscription is a waste of money.//

another
\\ When you make a point of targeting children to stimulate your agenda you really went over the line with me. Pollution effects all and pollutants may well harm the elderly more than children//

Other Times articles
CLEAN AIR FOR ALL | ANALYSIS
The invisible dangers
The World Health Organisation set air pollution guidelines in 2005 after a review of evidence by more than 70 scientists. It was the first to...
May 8 2019

Professor Cosford believes that his lung cancer may have been caused by years of cycling in London traffic
CLEAN AIR FOR ALL
‘Pumping out dirty fumes is worse than smoking around children’
Chris Smyth, Health Editor

Dirty air is second only to smoking as a cause of death and illness in Britain and the government has a “lot more to do” on pollution, the official...
May 8 2019

CLEAN AIR FOR ALL | ANALYSIS
Clampdown is too little and too late
Graeme Paton

Towns and cities across Britain, led by London, are already taking action to cut levels of pollution on traffic-choked streets. More than 30 local...
May 9 2019

That saturday editorial
The Times air pollution campaign: our manifesto for clean air
also gets a kicking
(BTW it was Saturday occasionally Times stories have the wrong date on)

Top comment
\\ The Times used to be a rational and balanced newspaper. Now it picks up every piece of virtue-signalling it can find, and prefers stirring emotions to presenting intellectual analysis.//
CCBGB as usual for the Times comments run 2 to 1 against them

The pattern is that two thirds of Times commenters pushback against the journos pushing Green agenda etc
..Many rightly say Road air pollution is a London thing

The Times 5 demans from May 9th
1. A new Clean Air Act to confer a legal right to unpolluted air for everyone in the UK
The new act should adopt tighter pollution limits
based on World Health Organisation recommendations (which seem BS)

2. Ban sales of new diesel and petrol cars from 2030 and reverse cut to green car grants
The government must reverse its £1,000 cut to green car grants, which were reduced to £3,500 in November.
(see that only benefits SUBSIDY corps)

3. Temporary traffic bans outside schools at drop-off and pick-up times
All vehicles except buses should be banned from roads beside schools for 45-60 minutes in the morning
(wacky idea)

4. The extension of pre-2016 diesel and pre-2006 petrol pay zones to other cities
other cities with illegal air quality failing to restrict these cars.
(see there are already draconian laws)

5. Pollution monitors in every postcode
(..duh no cos what counts is not the world spot in your zone, but rather what air you INPUT to your body)

catching up : The Times in March

11 Mar 2019 Health chiefs want ban on cars near schools to cut pollution | News ...
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/.../health-chiefs-want-ban-on-cars-near-schools-to-cut-polluti...
- Cars should be banned around schools and congestion charges imposed on cities across the country to fight air pollution, public health chiefs will say today.
Idling engines near school gates should be seen as socially unacceptable, according to Public Health England,

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There has been an 11% increase in use of London motorcycles
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/deliveroo-pollution-rise-of-delivery-motorbikes-hits-efforts-for-cleaner-air-0gwfbsmlc
and that is blamed for London air pollution falling at 2.6%/year
compared to 10.5% in Paris
..em 10% falls much be an anomaly cos it can't fall at that rate for long

Readers comments : yeh well if you pollution tax cars you get more motorbikes.

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half page advert for the new Boeing manufacturing centre in Sheffield

RAC foundation
Sadiq's scrappage fund is far too small
only £25m for 4m vehicles

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14 Feb 2019 - DieselsRpaedos article
Mayors call for £2K diesel scrappage scheme
quotes Penny Woods Lung NGO and Client Earth

There was a promo for "Polestar 2" a Volvo/Google electric car for 2020
to compete with Tesla

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Fracking causes Texas to break record
the graph is a hockey stick
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Wednesday front page
"Women exposed to air pollution are at risk of earlier menopause,
potentially damaging their chances of having children,
scientists have said"

"scientists say" = man in pub speak claiming authority

Commenter imagines how the journo thinks
"Two studies show that early menopause can be attributed to a whole host of factors that I can’t identify because they are all associated with such neighbourhoods,
therefore I’ll associate it with something that’s really trendy right now,
and likely to appeal to the Times campaign.”

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Tues : Electric Cars cost 30% more to insure

Mail on Line
what a weird headline
UK has halved air pollution deaths since 1970 but Britain's dirty air is still 'a public health emergency' and is the number one environmental health hazard, scientists say link
Few readers ..top comment has 57 likes
all top comments ..shout ""BS, this is propaganda , there are few pollution deaths ..are they after new taxes ?"

may 27 A ban on diesel vehicles can’t come quickly enough
by martha gill
Deluded so gets a proper kicking in the comments
top comment 100 likes

Scientists declare new epoch: the Age of Man
Rhys Blakely, Science Correspondent
May 27 2019,

.. Got the usual kicking in he comments

Solar panels lead charge into green vehicles
Emily Gosden, Energy Editor May 27
It's emily few read it
top comments are anti - yet only 6 likes

Putin’s nuclear icebreaker to carve up Arctic
Tom Parfitt, Moscow May 28

\\ Russia wants to cash in on the vast reserves of offshore oil and gas in the Arctic and to develop the Northern Sea Route (NSR) along its Arctic coast, which is becoming more viable as polar ice recedes as a result of global warming.//

If it was really melting a nuclear icebreaker would soon be not needed

\\ Did the Times get some money from the electric car industry or something?
Tomorrow: "Pollution is going to make your face fall off." //

27 Jun Pregnant mothers exposed to higher levels of air pollution have children with lower IQs, according to a study that also found folic acid supplements may help to protect a foetus’s developing brain.
2.5 point IQ difference between children born to mothers who lived in to the top 10 per cent most polluted areas compared with those in the bottom 10 per cent.

The research found it may also have the added benefit of protecting against a kind of pollution known as PM10
(how they work that out ?)

The research looked at more than 1,000 pregnant mothers in Shelby County, Tennessee.

However, Dr LeWinn said that the study fitted with growing evidence of the negative health effects of air pollution — and was especially worrying as the mothers involved were exposed to levels considered normal.
CCBGB

Today's Times green-tele-evangelising
Brothers and sisters we can HEAL the air with magic playground towers
Hallelujah !
Playground tower sucks pollution from school air
CCGBGB as commenters point out #1 It's better to filter pollution at the source and that is already done
#2 That since since the outside air is a constant stream the air the kids breathe isn't much cleaner..

I imagine it like this .. Kids play in a certain section of the river
that river has leaves in, so you put a leaf filter in the middle of the section
Yes in a month your filter will fill up with caught leaves, but the number of times leaves touch the kids will have hardly reduced.

#3 The tower has a big space for adverts in the middle
So basically it is an advertising hoarding which gets around planning rules.

Commenter point us to Daan Roosegaarde's Smog Free Tower that turns air pollution into jewellery
I see Veolia Lord Debens corp put up a video wit closed comments

Ted Talk
all commenters are dazzled

The Chinese People's Daily had a critical report
https://qz.com/846093/chinas-giant-smog-sucking-tower-was-simply-no-match-for-its-air-pollution/
http://shanghaiist.com/2016/11/24/smog_free_tower_sucks/

If apple trees are dropping apples into a sea
would you station your apple catchers underneath the tree or in the middle of the sea ?

2016 WUWT story New study negates the worry over "deaths due to atmospheric pollution"
Comments call the title misleading, it is

It should be "New study negates the worry over EXERCISE deaths due to atmospheric pollution"

The subtitle is accurate
"Walking and cycling are good for health even in cities with higher levels of air pollution"

July 22 TIMES READERS EVENT
Clean air for all – tackling air pollution and creating cleaner environments
The News Building, 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF
Doors open at 6pm for a 7pm start on Monday, July 22
Cost £20 + £1.13 ticket booking fee per ticket
The Times has launched a campaign to tackle air pollution with a manifesto which calls for a new Clean Air Act to confer a legal right to clear air for everyone in the UK.
The first Clean Air Act, introduced in 1956 in response to the Great London Smog of 1952, was a world first.
Britain has since lost its mantle as the world leader on tackling air pollution, we would like to see this changed.
(#1 saying Britain is not one of the least polluted countries in the world is ridiculous
#2 "world leader" that is a the #PioneerFallacy

Join us on July 22 at the News Building with a panel of experts hosted by The Times' Ben. They will be exploring the possible solutions about how to make cities less polluted, greener and healthier places to live. This event is in partnership with Create Streets.
(Nicholas Boys Smith, founder of Create Streets, the thinktank that advocates replacing tower blocks with conventional terraces ..and didn't ask the residents about that)

The panel will include:
Chris Boardman MBE, Olympic gold medalist and Greater Manchester’s Cycling and Walking Commissioner
Dr Rachel Aldred, Reader in Transport at the University of Westminster

Drastic intervention is required to create environmentally smarter cities.
(Nope. Asserting stuff doesn't make it true)
The roads in our cities are overcrowded and poor air quality is killing us with research linking dirty air second only to smoking as a cause of death and illness in Britain.
(tosh, cos on average people in crowded cities live longer that other people)

The government estimates that 28,000 to 36,000 deaths in the UK are caused annually by air pollution.
A study this year put the figure at closer to 64,000.
(made up numbers)

Extinction Rebellion recently filled London’s street calling for radical change to the way we embrace our approach to climate change. (so ?)
A new clean air plan published earlier this year, ministers promised to reduce levels of toxic pollution but there is still much more to be done. (Nope, air gets cleaner with time , as tech gets better< unless you increase population density)

Like Paris, Madrid and Oslo, we can find alternative approaches and our panel will explore which solutions they feel would be most effective.