Eco-warriors attack SUVs in major UK city blaming cars for Spain's floods

Eco-activists person targeted SUVs successful Edinburgh (Image: The Tyre Extinguishers)

Eco-warriors person said to person attacked 16 SUVs successful Edinburgh successful effect to the devastating floods successful Spain.

Activists from a radical calling itself The Tyre Extinguishers said "outraged" locals took enactment successful Edinburgh overnight successful a bid to item SUVs' relation successful causing "catastrophic" weather.

The enactment came aft implicit 200 radical died successful flooding successful Valencia. Searches continued connected Monday (November 4) for bodies wrong houses, garages and the thousands of vehicles strewn astir the city's streets.

Protesters targeted SUVs successful the Scottish capital's New Town neighbourhood, leaving images of Valencia flood victims connected windscreens and deflating tyres.

One of the photos showed a car daubed with the words, "These cars termination Valencians", portion different read, "These cars termination kids". Another appeared to amusement a hooded activistic letting the aerial retired of a tyre.

In a station connected societal media, the radical vowed not to halt until "these decease machines" are disconnected the roads.

The Tyre Extinguishers accidental they targeted 16 cars (Image: The Tyre Extinguishers)

Priya, a Tyre Extinguisher successful Edinburgh, said: "We deed 16 cars past night, and much planned. We telephone connected each Tyre Extinguishers groups worldwide - successful each 22 countries we present person groups successful - to instrumentality enactment present to item the transportation betwixt clime decease and SUV luxury emissions.

"Not capable is being done to item that disasters similar Valencia person quality causes. This is not a 'natural' disaster, it's a catastrophe fuelled by our governments being enslaved by the fossil substance and car lobbies.

"We request exigency enactment present to bring an extremity to SUV emissions, and if governments don't bash it, past it's up to citizens to bash it for them.

"If we can’t halt specified evident and extravagant forms of world-wrecking, truthful evidently harmful and specified axenic vanity, past what’s the constituent successful adjacent pretending we’re successful a crisis? We beryllium this to Valencians and to our kids."

The radical cited an International Energy Agency (IEA) report, which said if SUVs were a country, they would beryllium the world's 5th largest emitter of CO2.

SUVs were targeted successful Edinburgh's New Town (Image: The Tyre Extinguishers)

According to the IEA, SUVs accounted for 48 percent of planetary car income successful 2023. It said: "SUVs measurement 200-300kg much than an mean medium-sized car, and typically instrumentality up astir 0.3 m2 much abstraction - emitting astir 20% much c dioxide emissions".

Storms successful eastbound Spain led to monolithic flooding past week, sidesplitting astatine slightest 217 people, mostly adjacent Valencia. More rainfall was dumped connected Barcelona connected Monday, prompting authorities to suspend obstruction services.

Spain's Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said authorities tin inactive not springiness a reliable estimation of the fig of those missing successful Valencia.

Many radical consciousness abandoned by authorities, with choler erupting connected Sunday (November 3) erstwhile a assemblage threw mud astatine Spain's King Felipe and Queen Letizia, the premier curate and determination leaders arsenic they made their archetypal sojourn to Paiporta, wherever implicit 60 radical died.

Spain is utilized to autumn storms which tin pb to flooding, but the latest person produced the deadliest flooding successful surviving representation for Spaniards.

Climate scientists and meteorologists person said the contiguous origin of the flooding was a cut-off lower-pressure tempest system, which migrated from an unusually wavy and stalled pitchy stream.

It was apt fuelled by a record-hot Mediterranean Sea. The lower-pressure tempest strategy parked itself implicit the portion and unleashed a devastating deluge.