California trying to get rid of diesels?

[JayTheCPA]

So wouldn't that just cause global warming in a different way..

Do not know.

From a theoretical standpoint, without exhaust gasses to trap heat, solar / wind generated heat should radiate back out to space more easily.

Whether the end result is worse than with exhaust gasses / particles, better than with exhaust gasses / particles, or a net zero sum gain is simply beyond my level of understanding. Put another way, I only know enough to ask the question. If anything, going solar / wind will reduce the amount of crud that we breathe.

..although considering some of the winters we get here in New York I'm not sure I believe in global warming

Oddly enough, winters with heavier than typical snowfalls are due to warmth (somewhere else). It is the extra heat which allows a greater content of water to enter the atmosphere.

Then there is nuclear where a small system can be armored against collision damage and used to power all types of vehicles this is the most cost effective.

Weak links with the current nuclear approaches are that the raw material for fuel looks like it is critically low and that every 20 years or so there is a catastrophic failure which reminds people of why they want to hate nuclear energy.

If we could get off of fission with all of its negative media coverage along with high waste storage costs and move over to fusion, chances are much better that we will get a good long term source of energy. The challenge holding back fusion for an energy source is that nobody has figured out how to reverse the cycle of putting more energy into it than what it produces.

 

[FellowTraveler]

Do not know.

Weak links with the current nuclear approaches are that the raw material for fuel looks like it is critically low and that every 20 years or so there is a catastrophic failure which reminds people of why they want to hate nuclear energy.

If we could get off of fission with all of its negative media coverage along with high waste storage costs and move over to fusion, chances are much better that we will get a good long term source of energy. The challenge holding back fusion for an energy source is that nobody has figured out how to reverse the cycle of putting more energy into it than what it produces.

So low that Hitlery sold lots of it to the Russians, anyway the government just raises the level of exposure claiming its safe while science says its not safe at the new rates who do we believe?

Let's look at Japan after the two atomic bombs were dropped on civilian targets its was claimed that the radiation would last for thousands of years yet both cities flourish today.

In America radiation from Japan's nuke accident can be found in tap water and yet no outcry, floods across the nation had flooded storage ponds and where did the radiation go? In the ground water however; I suspect we are more prone to be killed by medical malpractice than nuke radiation.

 

[Big T]

So low that Hitlery sold lots of it to the Russians, anyway the government just raises the level of exposure claiming its safe while science says its not safe at the new rates who do we believe?

Let's look at Japan after the two atomic bombs were dropped on civilian targets its was claimed that the radiation would last for thousands of years yet both cities flourish today.

In America radiation from Japan's nuke accident can be found in tap water and yet no outcry, floods across the nation had flooded storage ponds and where did the radiation go? In the ground water however; I suspect we are more prone to be killed by medical malpractice than nuke radiation.

Last I looked, the Japanese were still squinting from those bombs we dropped on them.

 

[FellowTraveler]

Now that's a good one I'll give you that Big T..........

 

[Rodd]

Here is the truth from one of the horses mouths. My friend has worked for CARB for about 20 years. He is one of the guy's that tests all the different diesel motors, diesel, and bio fuels and reports on it. He told me years ago that every 1st draft of a report are the facts and the truth. The problem is his boss returns it and tells him he has to redo it because none of the liberal government appointed bureaucrats will accept the truth because it doesn't fit their liberal narrative. He says it takes so much more work hiding the facts in the reports. He tries to sneak things into the reports in ways that the bureaucrats and his bosses won't recognize. Sometimes it gets through and others it doesn't. It's all about the $$$$$

 

[Big T]

UCLA Professor Sues for Firing over Diesel Pollution Study Whistleblowing

A California epidemiologist who lost his job with UCLA not long after challenging the science behind claims that diesel pollution...

reason.com

"The facts of this case are astounding," said David French, Senior Counsel of the ACLJ. "UCLA terminated a professor after 35 years of service simply because he exposed the truth about an activist scientific agenda that was not only based in fraud but violated California law for the sake of imposing expensive new environmental regulations on California businesses. UCLA's actions were so extreme that its own Academic Freedom Committee unanimously expressed its concern about the case."

"Dr. Enstrom, a research professor in UCLA's Department of Environmental Health Sciences, published important peer-reviewed research demonstrating that fine particulate matter does not kill Californians. Also, Dr. Enstrom assembled detailed evidence that contends powerful UC professors and others have systematically exaggerated the adverse health effects of diesel particulate matter in California, knowing full well that these exaggerations would be used by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to justify draconian diesel vehicle regulations in California. In addition, the complaint argues that he exposed the fact that the lead author of the key CARB Report used to justify the diesel regulations did not have the UC Davis Ph.D. degree that he claimed. Instead, according to the suit, this "scientist" bought a fake Ph.D. for $1,000 from a fictional "Thornhill University."

"Finally, Dr. Enstrom discovered that several activist members of the CARB Scientific Review Panel on Toxic Air Contaminants have exceeded the legislatively mandated three-year term limits by decades. The suit contends that shortly after Dr. Enstrom revealed this systematic wrongdoing, UCLA not only issued a notice of termination, it denied him any compensation for his work by systematically and wrongfully looting his research fund accounts. Dr. Enstrom worked for more than a year without pay as he in good faith appealed his wrongful termination using UCLA procedures. Ironically enough, the fake "scientist" was only suspended for his misconduct while Dr. Enstrom was terminated for telling the truth."

BTW Dr. Enstrom settled his case with UCLA and had full professorial research privileges reinstated, though did not get his job back. Probably did not need to due to the settlement amount and his being close to retirement anyway.

CARB scandal also shames California media | CalWatchdog.com

Nov. 5, 2012 By Chris Reed It was four years ago yesterday that the California Air Resources Board sent out a letter that marked the beginning of an amazingly juicy

calwatchdog.com

In the Nov. 4, 2008, letter, state Secretary for Environmental Protection Linda S. Adams responded to S. Stanley Young of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences, based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Young had questioned the expertise of the authors of an air board report on the purportedly extreme health risks posed by tiny airborne pollutants contained in diesel emissions. Adams wrote that Young was off-base:

“Regarding the professional background of the authors, the lead author and project coordinator, Hien Tran, holds a doctorate degree in statistics at the University of California at Davis …”

Except he didn’t, as I established seven weeks later. (I had been contacted by UCLA epidemiologist James L. Enstrom, who worked with Young in questioning Tran’s credentials.) But for months, no California newspaper, except the editorial page of my newspaper, the U-T San Diego, covered this undeniable scandal. This greenout occurred even though Rough & Tumble had my blog item on Tran’s deception as its lead story for several hours on Dec. 23, 2008.

 

[FellowTraveler]

Perhaps government by contract only simply because contracts hold more to account when in violation of terms whereas the current form of government allows for corruption infringements insurrections treasons and plots without checks and balances.....read Section 5 to the 14th Amendment they can exempt themselves whenever they want!