BBC’s Pothole Expert Is A Climate Campaigner
By Paul Homewood
I am returning to this story:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67957584
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You will recall the claim that climate change will make potholes worse. This sort of “scientists say” reporting is ubiquitous in the BBC’s reporting of climate. They rarely actually quote an actual scientist who is actually prepared to back any of these specific claims. Instead they just rely on the lazy (and false) generalisation that global warming will make all of our weather more extreme.
This time though they give plenty of space to Roger Harding of Round Our Way. And just who are Round Our Way? Are they scientists or experts in such matters?
No, they are simply a tiny campaign group, with just four staff:
Roger Harding himself has no qualifications whatsoever, other than previous campaign work for Shelter:
If you want to campaign for what you believe to be good causes, fine. But why is the BBC publicising their propaganda?
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
I wonder where they get their money. Who pays for the Director, Deputy Director, Community Manager and Research Manager. They don’t appear to be a charity or listed in Companies House.
Paul you are a proper investigator of the truth, the sort that BBC Verify suggests they have amongst their 60 staff. I doubt they have one, who is anything other than a politically correct manipulator.
Keep up the good work.
I have just written to my MP congratulating the Government at last for having a Nuclear Policy of sorts just announced, with £300 Million being spent on fuel development.
However I have asked for a full explanation from Claire Couthino for the £20 Billion expenditure on CCS, an eye watering amount of our money, which could otherwise pay for 40x £500 Million new Hospitals.
I will let you know the response.
40 new hospitals will probably be more effective in dealing with any negative effects of CO2 emissions than CCS.
Although I’m struggling to think of any negative effects of CO2 emissions.
The only negative of Co2 emissions is that they are costing the Tax Payers, who have not been consulted, gigantic sums of hard earned cash for no apparent benefit.
Currently the atmosphere has an ANOMALOUS low CO2 concentration. Only one other time in geological history was the concentration so low as it is today. CO2 is plant food and the source of the oxygen we breath.
Can you give us the references for CO2 being lower than any recent time, please?
Hello. I was speaking on a geological time scale which is the relevant scale upon which to view any of the Earth’s processes. Only one other time (Mid Carboniferous to Mid Permian), was the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere as low as it is today). The issue is that over geological time it can be demonstrated that there exists no correlation between the concentration of atmospheric CO2 and surface temperature. Al Gores misrepresentation of the saw tooth pattern of recent ice core date shows degassing of the oceans which occurs on an 800 year timescale following temperature increase NOT the other way around. The lack of correlation can be observed in a comparison of results obtained by R.A Berner 2001 who produced a profile for atmospheric CO2 concentration over the past 600 million years compared to a surface temperature profile produced by C.R. Scotese (1999) over a similar time scale which is from the Cambrian to the present day. W Jackson Davis published his paper in 2017 looking at both of these over a 425 million years which delivers the same conclusion in his papers “The Relationship between Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration and Global Temperature for the Last 425 Million Years”.
What is very compelling in the development of the empirical data free concept of CO2 as a pollutant and a danger to the planet as a greenhouse gas is the bizarre way that the effects of the much more prevalent and potent atmospheric Water Vapour is brushed under the carpet by the IPCC as some unmeasurable inconsequential aspect of the atmosphere.
In the same budget J Hunt announced £4bn for childcare. The MSM discussed this in fine detail but the £20bn for CCS was absolutely ignored. I despair.
“… put under even more pressure with rising food and energy bills.”
I would have more respect for this guy’s activism is the direct and intentional effect of his policies wasn’t to create those rising food and energy bills.
Yes!! Inflation has just risen again so maybe he has a point? Sorry, what’s that Sooty? Government tax increases on alcohol and tobacco have pushed up inflation? Increasing the minimum wage by a pound has also pushed up costs for businesses? Is there any good news, Sooty? Petrol and diesel inflation is negative!!
What EXACTLY causes potholes ? Ask a decent & EXPERIENCED “Engineer”
From MY perspective: and most are ‘faults’ which by now one would think should NEVER happen on new roads – but they do: 1. Road Base structure failing 2. Surface failing through overload / quality of laying – undulations causing harmonic thumping by vehicles. 3. Vehicle weights often used as getout clause for poor structure. 4. Design parameters – a) Roads too narrow and vehicles tramlining rather than using the entire width between lane boundaries. b) induced parameters – Speed bumps & Chicanes causing tyre scrub & wheel slippage from sudden heavy braking and accelerating. c) Excessive use of badly layed out roundabouts and Junction geometry – not allowing for the PHYSICAL characteristics of how vehicles move, d) Steering & Suspension geometry on vehicles – probably as a bad an offender as road structure. Witness your own private driveways and how easily stone chips fly and accumulate from even just the Postie ( or the Wife / Mother ( ahem) drive ) (Old vicar has more of a problem with the gateposts at low speed 😉 )
Kwik references https://www.google.com/search?q=+tyre+wear+HGV+road+surface+wear+steering+%26+Suspension+geometry#ip=1
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiArLuPo-SDAxVST0EAHVY2BD8QFnoECCkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eea.europa.eu%2Fpublications%2Femep-eea-emission-inventory-guidebook-2009%2Fpart-b-sectoral-guidance-chapters%2F1-energy%2F1-a-combustion%2F1-a-3-b-vi-road-tyre-and-brake-wear.pdf&usg=AOvVaw3EW_VfME38LEtyLkfoG-S8&opi=89978449 another p
df https://watermark.silverchair.com/10.2346_tire.22.21027.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAA2UwggNhBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggNSMIIDTgIBADCCA0cGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQM_d-u5X9dWf-DxAG3AgEQgIIDGDE8r9JbDbQg8YVyM09B1rKE-FpJ6k0Rsh-oaU_JLMG7sNeZ75WYJnt0x3iJvNd4uI79oGvDyon36PxYYJbk5kQt_PwZqppoREyr68Pm3-c34-lXKK-6XCPgi8eKx7gjyOFxG5mpEIakmEO9OBmdOJOvlKinbpFk7Rb-yMRo7WF6YsLIws2f7-cKVW94W_kLmCAfuJ-R0ZPlUer2HoNWgZ60Zg5WwuvHxuLuvM9wYBiQXVWZs6YAGvcO4BRs6Axxx0P2bkxuv8mfwk-vtkayfXM7BuKFOWw4kQNAc5Gmv3qgjwewFXhetpP1s-JDD6YciVkNo2TD6Fg_581Fb0TcD9Ca00VwFMwxG0NcGe-Hb_GSpY97DRatqWYIJwP50NoYKf8Ll5ky6pWTYByp4T5r_6d38mONX-36_Id6QdsBN1MHtBSeGpSbjEt34iWG2ncLchc2U6_LBYJ1FgCs32yE2tJqo6dQ8ysTm00aXl66INJLGbvClyRXkrIL9-JN79hxIOXyOEBKz_bhGNNsFcm8N22zzJRK70G3ISf2DLXUMC_8X4X0FfbfB9N85QOkmRatBEROS5xulgMs8do24LWDNdBaIOE_l3SwYp2BxY1ufk-24ne1eUGz4GwaTSmNvW6CK-iABgB6L28BLzPDiYjg0q8CiK_CjrpT4CwhVepkFKmsiXERjd36qEwbI4Rn7-sCY6M0ogRCSBVl2WANvwIutlAgSs3MxXCDBZFAhni8aQ0hZArIi4yY7mNujdY2b2IzAwY_BQSrIi9VWsSfFqR5nTEwjEN9mz9UXr3QGvoH3nTxdoPCamfL6xMBxrB8LNk0-xDEvKdqsGGdlFbC4ci7YxW-GsPeQMCmhYPyZASybpA7NH67bB-1MLuKJfy8uI_N5wzL8vum-DULKtmildoz1Y69m2pXPcs0rXE8uiCjWLWiFLtcYEzfJm3WrJFHdFIlfd7NzqTCx1j-1mA6KUloz6-1hGnMUi2kQXNRxQanuM_HH8jSsLKN72F891p6HhWQYSQZYlwpLBIUdMu3v-Mmnf7jNnrBNZuGIw
https://www.shopownermag.com/ride-control-diagnostics-from-tire-wear-patterns/
MAYBE the BBC should spend more time & effort on Bottom Gear driving to encourage safer =better driving 90’s nice 80’s excellent and 20’s Plenty – ONLY if your DRUNK – a dead giveaway !
O.T. So now I know how much it costs to remove a wind turbine, $4m each.
http://www.newgeography.com/content/008041-federal-judge-sides-with-osage-nation-orders-removal-of-84-wind-turbines
That $4million presumably includes the complete removal of the reinforced concrete foundations, although it is never clear if that will be done for all end of life turbines, and these turbines are relatively small (<2Mw).
He could go and do something useful like weed the streets in Brighton!
A city council which banned the use of a type of weedkiller is to reconsider its policy after finding manual removal ineffective.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-6799
Off topic but worth noting it has generated 125 comments, this just sounds like organised crime.
Bristol’s Clean Air Zone made more than £26 million in its first year, the council has revealed. The CAZ was launched in November 2022 by Bristol City Council to reduce air pollution – which is now down by 10 percent across the entire city, the new report shows.
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It’s odd that the article doesn’t mention that a contributing factor to increased number of potholes is the additional weight of electric cars.
Campaigners are missing the opportunity to blame it on the obesity crisis/emergency/cataclysm.
Very marginal.
It seems to me that many potholes arise because a) the original surface was badly laid or a recent large road work was cheaply and badly finished and b) that the last time (maybe three or four months ago) was done badly.
Why would these repairs be don badly? Because the contractors are making fools of the council who they use as a money tree. They get the job because they give the lowest quote and then again when it fails.
Simple. Good old fashioned corruption. Look for family connections!
Potholes are getting worse because local councils – many bankrupt – aren’t fixing them, just as they are not keeping gulleys and drain covers clear of leaves and sludge to prevent flooding.
Instead they are spending it on ‘stopping’ climate change and diversity hires.
Very true.
Aren’t all BBC’s employees Climate Campaigners
The main cause of potholes is freezing so climate change is beneficial if it means warmer winters
And what is their solution to ‘climate change caused potholes’? Heavier EVs. Brilliant!!
Too many big heavy EVs are smashing up our roads. Why, when we are supposed to be saving natural materials, are we building bigger and bigger – and uglier – cars? Tax the bu**ers and spend that tax on repairing the potholes.
Most cars seem to be increasing in size, not just the addition from EVs
What I’ve read, as far as car sizes go, is that in the USA, the tax situation makes it more economical to build big (heavy!) cars than small, light vehicles. so, the USA gets the big, heavy 4x4s. As always, the side effects of government actions seem to be the primary causes of MORE government actions!
Our Midlands Today BBC Weather girl actually said in last night’s forecast that the poor weather was caused by climate change!!
Wouldn’t call Shef a girl!
Been around a bit!
Locally we’ve got a whole line of potholes caused by the council tearing up the surface to replace it with a fancy colour for a bike lane.