World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds | Climate crisis | The Guardian
Damian Carrington
The climate crisis has driven the world to the brink of multiple “disastrous” tipping points, according to a major study.
It shows five dangerous tipping points may already have been passed due to the 1.1C of global heating caused by humanity to date.
These include the collapse of Greenland’s ice cap, eventually producing a huge sea level rise, the collapse of a key current in the north Atlantic, disrupting rain upon which billions of people depend for food, and an abrupt melting of carbon-rich permafrost.
Trevelyan replaces Shapps as transport secretary – Transportxtra
Shapps, who became transport secretary in 2019, had backed Truss’s rival Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Party’s leadership election.
On Twitter Shapps said: “It has been a privilege to serve as transport secretary; a job I loved. Now I look forward to being a strong, independent voice on the backbenches, developing policies that will further the Conservative cause and the interests of my constituents in Welwyn Hatfield.”
The age of ‘the car is king’ is over. The sooner we accept that, the better | John Vidal | The Guardian
“But you don’t understand,” replied one of the delegation. “In 20 years, there will be no bicycles in China.”
GPs to prescribe walking and cycling in bid to ease burden on NHS | The Guardian
Nicola Davis
GPs around England are to prescribe patients activities such as walking or cycling in a bid to ease the burden on the NHS by improving mental and physical health.
The £12.7m trial, which was announced by the Department for Transport and will begin this year, is part of a wider movement of “social prescribing”, an approach already used in the NHS, in which patients are referred for non-medical activities.
Active travel falls back to pre-Covid levels, DfT stats show – Transport Xtra
Active travel falls back to pre-Covid levels, DfT stats show
01 September 2022
The percentage of 5–10-year-olds walking to school rose rom 50% in 2020 to 51% in 2021
The number of cycling and walking trips fell to pre-Covid levels after rising during lockdown, the DfT’s National Travel Survey (NTS) 2021 has revealed.
Compared with 2020, average cycling trips decreased by 27% in 2021 to 15 trips per person – 7% lower than 2019.
There has been a general upward trend in the average cycling miles travelled between 2002 and 2019 (54 miles per person), with a sharp increase in 2020 to 88 miles per person during lockdowns and a fall in 2021 back…
Banish cars from the road and make cities cycling-friendly, bus chief urges – road.cc
The British government should banish cars from urban roads and instead aspire to the Netherlands’ cyclist-friendly cities, according to the chief executive of the Go-Ahead Group, one of the UK’s largest public transport companies.
Christian Schreyer, who took over the reins at the Newcastle-based bus firm in November last year, has argued that cycling and public transport should be prioritised if the UK is to effectively tackle the climate crisis and clean the air in its cities.
Major sea-level rise caused by melting of Greenland ice cap is ‘now inevitable’ | Sea level | The Guardian
Major sea-level rise from the melting of the Greenland ice cap is now inevitable, scientists have found, even if the fossil fuel burning that is driving the climate crisis were to end overnight.
The research shows the global heating to date will cause an absolute minimum sea-level rise of 27cm (10.6in) from Greenland alone as 110tn tonnes of ice melt. With continued carbon emissions, the melting of other ice caps and thermal expansion of the ocean, a multi-metre sea-level rise appears likely.
Billions of people live in coastal regions, making flooding due to rising sea levels one of the greatest long-term impacts of the climate crisis.
How car culture colonised our thinking – and our language | Language | The Guardian
We say this because we’ve become accustomed to thinking about the street in “traffic logic”. For centuries, streets used to be a place with a multiplicity of purposes: talk, trade, play, work and moving around. It’s only in the past century that it has become a space for traffic to drive through as quickly and efficiently as possible. This idea is so pervasive that it has colonised our thinking.
• This is an edited extract from Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives by Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet, translated by Fiona Graham
If Sadiq Khan really is a green mayor, he should stop the Silvertown tunnel | Diyora Shadijanova | The Guardian
‘I am the first green mayor of London,” Sadiq Khan proclaimed last year during the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. The Labour party mayor has built a reputation for tackling air pollution. In 2019, he introduced ultra-low emission zones in the nation’s capital. New cycle infrastructure has appeared throughout the city, alongside cycling training courses, and London is brimming with electric buses. It’s no surprise that since 2016, the year Khan was elected, air pollution in London has plunged dramatically.
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