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Digging up another zombie statistic<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Climate Scepticism <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0JIT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went looking for the origin of the government\u2019s inane Zero-Emission Vehicle Mandate, and found myself hurtling down one rabbit hole after another. It\u2019s interesting that even recent history becomes hard to trace these days as policy documents and web pages are superseded, departments change names, and the number of reports ramifies exponentially. Finding the bit of sweetcorn you are searching for is increasingly difficult as the size of the cess pit grows. Why was I searching for this? Well, it had to do with car manufacturers, in particular Stellantis, whingeing about the ZEV mandate. I wanted to trace how enthusiastic they were back when it was originally proposed. My memory is that the manufacturers were gung-ho for it, being preternaturally dim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, this little exploration does not trace that bit of history, because it ended up getting so sidetracked. The original attitude of the manufacturers to the ZEV mandate will have to wait for another day (if any commenters would care to paste in a link that might shorten my search, I would be grateful). This short discussion digs into the origin of a statistic used, or rather misused, in one of the CCC\u2019s outputs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CCC put out a briefing document<\/a> in 2020 entitled<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s transition to electric vehicles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Actually, it was<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A report by Terri Wills for the Climate Change Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terri Wills is an independent climate change consultant who worked with the CCC throughout 2020 to identify opportunities for business to deliver the UK\u2019s Net Zero objectives<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know who Terri Wills is. But I find it interesting that the government outsources its climate policies to the CCC, who outsources them to a single \u201cindependent climate change consultant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(I exaggerate. But only slightly.) One of the briefing note\u2019s recommendations, as you may have gathered from the preamble, was a zero-emissions vehicle mandate. It followed hot on the heels of the CCC\u2019s 6th<\/sup> Carbon Budget<\/a>, the actual source of the policy recommendation, which was that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A zero-emission vehicle mandate should be introduced, requiring car and van manufacturers to sell a rising proportion of zero-emission vehicles, reaching nearly 100% by 2030, with only a very small proportion of hybrids allowed alongside until 2035. This should strengthen incentives to sell EVs in the UK market.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Smart guys, the CCC. They think that if you ban one product, it will increase the sales of an inferior product that does the same job. Example: banning milk will increase the sales of vegan alternatives. I don\u2019t know about you, but I would prefer to drink soya milk than have black tea\/coffee. Not almond milk, which tastes like ashes. Another example: banning cheese will increase the sales of vegan alternatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(OK, there are limits to this. Have you tried<\/em> vegan cheese?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minor digression begins: putting the CCC in charge of climate policy is like putting a committee of Year 7s in charge of high school lunch menu policy. As an example of the CCC\u2019s delusional recommendations, I offer their approach to feeding the UK:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Land and greenhouse gas removals.<\/strong> There is [i.e. there will be under their scheme] a transformation in agriculture and the use of farmland while maintaining the same levels of food per head produced today. By 2035, 460,000 hectares of new mixed woodland are planted to remove CO2 and deliver wider environmental benefits. 260,000 hectares of farmland shifts to producing energy crops. Woodland rises from 13% of UK land today to 15% by 2035 and 18% by 2050. Peatlands are widely restored and managed sustainably.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s new woodland of almost the size of Norfolk, energy crops covering an area half the size of Norfolk, and they want 20% of lowland agricultural land (i.e. the lowland peats, the best farming areas) to be rewetted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The farmed lowland peats cover 243,000 ha but that is far less than 20% of the lowland agricultural land. Let\u2019s assume they want all of that re-wetted. This won\u2019t necessarily mean you can\u2019t grow crops on it, but you can safely bet that it won\u2019t work very well if you do, and that you will have very angry farmers if you try to force them to do so. They also want another 18% to be sustainably managed, which presumably means not intensively farmed. They want 85 GW of solar PV, which going by the usual rule of thumb means 170,000 ha or 1,700 km2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And let me just repeat\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026while maintaining the same levels of food per head produced today\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey twizzlers for mains and cr\u00e8me eggs for dessert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minor digression ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me screech back onto the track I wanted to follow before I saw something else interesting in the weeds. One of the co-benefits of the ZEV mandate that was identified in the briefing note by the CCC via the independent climate change consultant was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 Improved air quality. The link between EVs and air quality is clear. Air pollution is the top environmental risk to human health in the UK, and in the UK alone in 2016 was responsible for 40,000 premature deaths.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Remember, this document was produced at the end of 2020, so there was really no excuse for wheeling out this zombie statistic. My thanks go to Stew, who linked to this comprehensive explanation by Prof. Spiegelhalter<\/a> in a contemporaneous comment at Notalot<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 40,000 deaths came from a report in 2016 from the Royal College of Physicians, which took its data from a 2009 report by the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution. COMEAP\u2019s results for the UK in turn derive from from a 2002 paper by Pope et al who calculated a risk ratio of 1.06 per 10 \u03bcg PM2.5 per cubic metre. The deaths were not deaths at all since (until lately) air pollution has never been on a death certificate. Their main role was to shorten the lives of already moribund people:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Table 1 from the Spiegelhalter blog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Spiegelhalter goes on to say that the WHO target is 10 \u03bcg PM2.5 per cubic metre, so that in effect there is no additional risk if you live somewhere with that average level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing that is generally agreed upon is that the air is rather cleaner now than it was before. The COMEAP risk ratio was obtained for 2008 levels of PM2.5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the time, London was given a risk ratio of 1.03 by Spiegelhalter, based on a value of 15 \u03bcg PM2.5 per cubic metre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest\u00a0map from Defra<\/a>\u00a0[select the pollution type and the year from the drop-down menus] looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A very small part of the UK breaches the WHO guidelines, unless they have revised them down in the interim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spiegelhalter says of the 1.06 risk ratio:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For a start, we can make comparisons with other aspects of lifestyle and environment by going back to the relative risk estimate of 1.06 per 10 mPM. This is very roughly<\/a>, pro-rata, like an extra hour watching TV, being another 3Kg overweight, or having an extra drink.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, cleaning up our air is seen as a major co-benefit of the ZEV mandate by our indefatigable committee and their independent climate change consultant. I delved quite deeply in the CCC\u2019s 6th<\/sup> carbon budget and in their briefing note on EV adoption. But I don\u2019t remember them highlighting the societal costs of their ZEV mandate quite so prominently. It would probably quite useful to know how much productivity is going to be affected by long-distance drivers sitting on forecourts recharging their batteries. (The DfT thinks that \u201cdecarbonising\u201d transport will have jobs and growth co-benefits as well as health benefits.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonus figure, showing the UK\u2019s emissions of PM2.5 over the last 50 years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Of course, I\u2019m talking to myself, since we all died in 1970, the air was that bad.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonus bonus figure, showing the decline in lead emissions from transport. I can only find data going back to 1990 without a deeper search, so here we are. Remember the good old days? Walking along the main road breathing in all that lead chloride?<\/p>\n\n\n

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BEIS<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

If anyone has memories of the air before the figure begins, please regale us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also No Smoke Without Tyres<\/a>: on the particulate matter arising from EV tyres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured image: a bohemian cycling the wrong way as an example of a hoped-for future, from the DfT\u2019s 2021 \u201cDecarbonising Transport<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Smart guys, the CCC. They think that if you ban one product, it will increase the sales of an inferior product that does the same job. Example: banning milk will increase the sales of vegan alternatives. I don\u2019t know about you, but I would prefer to drink soya milk than have black tea\/coffee. Not almond milk, which tastes like ashes. 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