Get ready for a load of spin about how the government's "Jet Zero" strategy allows them to do this and remain compatible with their climate goals. Jet Zero is a Trojan horse to expand aviation while promising change and it'll be too late to stop it when very little happens.

We've seen exactly the same from MPs of a certain colour regarding the expansion of Southampton Airport runway. Our own MP even claimed it was necessary to support British Airways families. AFAIK there are no BA families here: Literally throwing constituents under the (air)bus.
It's worth reading this debate in Hansard to see what is going on. https://t.co/Zq1EhYbuhE
Want to see a textbook example of churnalism?

Here is a press release from the local business lobbying organisation of which the airport is a member: https://t.co/UGUssnUyj7

Here is the same thing reheated in the local press with a reporter's name on it: https://t.co/C0dsPqufwk
Here we go... https://t.co/iFkBtOmohd
https://t.co/7yZAZGe7Qs
When it is argued new technology will allow these projects to be compliant with net zero, remember this:

Airbus proposed hydrogen planes 20 years ago https://t.co/4StnkfkshW but ditched the idea for all the well known issues with hydrogen 10 years later https://t.co/oc0FNkGwNs
Boeing and their predecessors have proposed Blended Wing Bodies (BWBs) to save fuel since the 1990s. https://t.co/K9xrKeVaqH

But their head of future airplanes says they are impractical for anything but large, long haul routes. https://t.co/6eNCi3eYtj
So when Airbus now proposes hydrogen BWBs by 2035, take it with a massive pinch of salt https://t.co/9Sx9GbxWIZ

Besides, to switch Heathrow to hydrogen would need roughly 50 GW of dedicated power stations - the equivalent of today's peak grid demand or 32 Hinkley C reactors.
If the industry produces zero emissions long haul aircraft or electric short haul aircraft in 15 years, then we can have a conversation about airport capacity. Until then, short haul traffic should use what we know works today - high speed electric ground transport, aka trains.

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The Government is making the same mistakes as it did in the first wave. Except with knowledge.

A thread.


The Government's strategy at the beginning of the pandemic was to 'cocoon' the vulnerable (e.g. those in care homes). This was a 'herd immunity' strategy. This interview is from


This strategy failed. It is impossible to 'cocoon' the vulnerable, as Covid is passed from younger people to older, more vulnerable people.

We can see this playing out through heatmaps. e.g. these heatmaps from the second


The Government then decided to change its strategy to 'preventing a second wave that overwhelms the NHS'. This was announced on 8 June in Parliament.

This is not the same as 'preventing a second wave'.

https://t.co/DPWiJbCKRm


The Academy of Medical Scientists published a report on 14 July 'Preparing for a Challenging Winter' commissioned by the Chief Scientific Adviser that set out what needed to be done in order to prevent a catastrophe over the winter
2017 https://t.co/kiqQoWR57e


https://t.co/W18nqFlLru


The GOP got rid of the SCOTUS filibuster so they could jam through three fringy right-wing Alito clones, including one right before the election, but sure thing, bud.

“Uh, actually, they got rid of the SCOTUS filibuster because Harry Reid did it first for something totally different! I am very smart!”

No. Knock it off.

Here’s the thing about the “But Harry Reid...” excuse:

1. McConnell was holding up Obama nominees, some *for literal years* without a vote.

2. Had he *not* done that, Trump would have inherited *even more* vacant seats.

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