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Study the science before accepting a green dictatorship

Paul Withrington Director, Transport-Watch Northampton NN2
18 April 2020
Two graphs of temperature change. Paul Withrington says figure one, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is misleading, and the data is more accurately presented in figure 2.
Two graphs of temperature change. Paul Withrington says figure one, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is misleading, and the data is more accurately presented in figure 2.

 

What a terrifying read LTT of 3 April was: the headlines, ‘Net Zero Transport Council to advise the DfT on decarbonisation’ and the London Borough of Croydon’s climate assembly vowing to ‘Punish people who don’t back Net Zero’, let alone the plethora of stories to do with clean air zones and the rest. Terrifying for two reasons: firstly, the extremism, and secondly, perhaps worse, the dishonesty behind the stories, or is it bone-headed ignorance?

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