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Nearly Sane

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Pollution limits
« on: January 06, 2017, 12:44:36 PM »
There are some who worry that there has not been a commitment to adopting EU pollution limits after Brexit but given that the annual limit has been breached in Brixton (or should that be Brexton) after 5 days, do they gave any teak effect?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-38529928

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Re: Pollution limits
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2017, 01:47:05 PM »
Smogs will be common again soon if the, "there is no such thing as global warming", brigade have their way. Trump I believe is going to rescind America's weak attempts to limit the damage their polluting industries create.

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Re: Pollution limits
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2017, 01:49:13 PM »
Smogs will be common again soon if the, "there is no such thing as global warming", brigade have their way. Trump I believe is going to rescind America's weak attempts to limit the damage their polluting industries create.

And yet if we have annual limits that are breached in 5 days, it's a pretty useless piece of window dressing. In essence this isn't a discussion about climate change but the politics of climate change.
« Last Edit: January 06, 2017, 01:53:53 PM by Nearly Sane »

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Re: Pollution limits
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2017, 05:33:50 PM »
Yesterday we had the depressing Canadian findings on increased dementia risk for people living near main highways and celebration at the highest annual UK cars sales records.

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Re: Pollution limits
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2017, 05:37:02 PM »
Yesterday we had the depressing Canadian findings on increased dementia risk for people living near main highways and celebration at the highest annual UK cars sales records.

The zombie apocalypse will be a welcome relief when it arrives!
Out of interest, what proportion of those new purchases were either hybrid or purely electric?  How many diesel?  Have those proportions changed over the last few years?
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Re: Pollution limits
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2017, 05:41:43 PM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38516247

"The SMMT said diesel and petrol cars continued to be by far the most popular fuel types for consumers with market share at 47.7% and 49.0% respectively."
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