#Sunk grew up in Southampton. He knows exactly how choked by fumes these UK city ports are.
£200 million towards decarbonisation innovation in shipping is a drop in the ocean and meaningless unless it produces technology that is adopted by shipping industry that tends to be registered in tax havens.
‘The report found that in the top 10 NOx-polluted ports, about 4,000 ships produced an estimated 1.75 times as much NOx as almost one million cars registered to the same areas.’
‘Ships calling at #Southampton, a major cruise ship port, produced four times more NOx than cars in the city, T&E said. Southampton was also the worst for PM2.5, with cruise ships responsible for more than half the particulate pollution.’
So again travel habits of very affluent impacting health of us all.
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8 Feb 1649: Thomas Wriothesley, 4th earl of #Southampton attends Charles I's funeral #otd at #Windsor. Afterwards he retired to his estate in #Hampshire (NPG)
#Israel has said it has informed the families of 31 people held in the territory since 7 October that their relatives are dead. The news came as the Qatari prime minister said #Hamas had given a “generally positive” response to proposals for a deal trading a break in the fighting and release of #Palestinian prisoners for the return of more #hostages.
5 Feb 1547: Thomas Wriothesely Earl of #Southampton appointed #otd as chief commissioner of claims for the coronation of Edward VI. He bared the sword of state at the coronation on 20 Feb (Met Museum)
"...'Lee', the first AI chatbot for Chinese New Year celebrations in the country, was developed by the Chinese Association of Southampton and AI innovator #Enigmatica.
"The new technology is said to be a 'significant step forward' in cultural education and is designed to be a comprehensive guide to the festival..."
13 Jan 1547: Thomas Wriothesley, the future 1st Earl of #Southampton acts as a commissioner in the trial of Henry Howard Earl of #Surry#otd (Met Museum - an exquisite miniature portrait of TW)