Scottish Sceptic

There’s some work on electric cars reported in the New York Times that says:

• People who own all-electric cars where coal generates the power may think they are helping the environment. But a new study finds their vehicles actually make the air dirtier with 3.6 times more soot and smog deaths than petrol – but they are beneficial as they produce more atmospheric plant food (aka CO2)
• Ethanol isn’t so green, either. “It’s kind of hard to beat gasoline” for public and environmental health, said study co-author Julian Marshall, an engineering professor at the University of Minnesota. “A lot of the technologies that we think of as being clean … are not better than gasoline.”

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Just been reading the kinds of idiotic greenspin that has been written by the drooling half demented green journalists after Lima and this headline really sums it up:

The Lima climate deal is largely voluntary. That may be its biggest strength.

These guys take an agreement for someone to do something, sometime somewhere and write it up as something great and write it up as something worthwhile! Continue reading →