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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 9, 2013 8:18:44 GMT 1
From Bishop Hill bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2013/3/8/air-quality.htmlOver the last few weeks I've been noticing green activists posting lots of comments about air quality. All this activity has culminated in litigation against the government, as reported here by Roger Harrabin. www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21691784The government is facing a case in the UK Supreme Court later over its failure to cut air pollution in line with legal limits. ...An environment charity, ClientEarth, will now argue in the Supreme Court that the national courts must enforce EU environment law in the UK. As reader Ron (to whom a tip of the hat is due) points out there is a certain irony in environmentalists doing this. In dutiful obedience to their wishes, wood-pellet boilers and other biomass heating devices have been made exempt from the provisions of the Clean Air Act. So the greens demand actions that make the air dirtier and then sue the government for allowing this to happen. This is what is called joined-up environmentalism.
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 9, 2013 8:25:28 GMT 1
The really sad thing about this is that we should indeed be getting particulates and gaseous pollutants out of the air we breathe. It is indeed completely mad that we permit people to drive diesels in our cities. But the Green hysteria about CO2 and Global Warming has turned people against all environmental responsibility.
There's only one thing madder than allowing vast quantities of mico particles from diesel to be discharged into the air we breathe. That is ignoring those particulate emissions and instead getting very excited about the emissions of the one gas, CO2, that has is harmless to humans and animals and beneficial to plant life.
The problem is the Green movement has turned from its original roots and got itself firmly established as the marketing arm of the alternative energy and fuel lobbies, and in doing so has probably directly and indirectly done more damage to the environment than the worst that the fossil fuel industry could do. With more to come.
Mar 8, 2013 at 1:49 PM | michel
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Post by alancalverd on Mar 10, 2013 21:25:11 GMT 1
How odd that life expectancy continues to increase despite all the terrible things that we are supposed to be doing to ourselves. Clearly, the statisticians are lying and the pensions industry is not in crisis.
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 11, 2013 2:15:54 GMT 1
Indeed, Mr Calverd.
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