[Because no one should have to breathe air with trace amounts of carbon dioxide in it?] New £30 million fund for Green Buses
England’s bus fleet will be helped to go green thanks to a new £30 million fund to encourage the purchase of low carbon buses.Drax protest trial judge relaxes warning on [insane] talk of climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The fund is part of the Department for Transport’s wider strategy to encourage a radical shift to low carbon transport and improve air quality in our cities.
Chatterton, who has lectured on geography for 11 years, said that he had acted because of "passion and terror at the implications of coal-burning power stations for global warning".
He told the jury that he did not consider the train hijack to be an illegal act, because United Nations statistics suggested that the amount of carbon [dioxide] produced by Drax was responsible for 180 deaths a year. He said: "The threat is deadly and it is urgent …" The judge then interrupted him again, saying: "I've let you go on – please remember the legal restraints."
Stratford was allowed to show the jury photographs of houses under water in her home town of Louth, Lincolnshire, which she said had roused her fears about climate change. She choked and had to recover in the witness box as she described how her four-year-old nephew had told her: "Don't worry, we can fix it."
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