one of the lower understood Monty Python works from the seventies was a sketch featuring a palaeontologist – miss Anne Elk (John Cleese in drag) – having a hard time to reveal her/his “new” theory. It went: “All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much, much thicker in the middle, as well as then thin once again at the far end.”
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Wind ahead almost half a century and, based on what’s been found in a “study” just released by clever people at a national university, new scientist reports: “With only a few cars, web traffic flows smoothly. When as well many vehicles appear, web traffic clogs.”
Like the laughable Anne Elk, plus those inadvertently funny uni chaps, I’m happy to specify the bleeding obvious, too, by reminding everybody (our state-owned broadcaster in particular) that there are many – far as well many to listing right here – triggers of air pollution.
• Government pledges ‘to do more’ to satisfy 2040 vehicle emissions target
Yes, it’s a extremely important subject the BBC should cover. however exactly how come it’s so quick to judge automobiles when speaking about the bad high quality of the air we breathe?
A few days ago, a national Beeb broadcast reported the Courts have just decided that government must clean it up. fair enough.