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Sir David King admits they got it wrong in another example of how the green blob trashes the planet while pretending to save it.
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If you have a modern diesel car (as I have) fitted with AdBlue technology, then all that comes out of the tailpipe is water vapour, carbon dioxide (not, repeat not) a pollutant, and nitrogen. (Look up AdBlue on Wikipedia.) These cars are not a problem.
Meistersinger
I think you'll find that the AdBlue cars have a smaller tank of pigpee than the smaller engine warrants proportionally vs say truck engines and there have been suggestions that the emissions tests have again been gamed.
By their nature vehicle engines are dynamic and the combustion process is never perfect - it's all a compromise. I look forward to demonstrators outside B&Q, Lidl and Aldi protesting about the planet killing fluffy bunny choking garden products and tools on sale.
The reasons behind the present barrage of "air quality" bleating and more - have little to do with actual air quality and much is politicised, subjective, emotionally charged(children, "vulnerable people") classic manufactured moral panic - with an eye on the victim's wallets.
I'm surprised Sadiq Knan hasn't said some air pollution is an unavoidable consequence of living in a conurbation of 10 million humans - learn to live with it - as he has for other issues where there are actual death certificates.
Whilst the VW Audi Group have worked hard to sell the idea that they are the most reliable cars, They are not. Mazda,Honda,Lexus are all more reliable.
Sorry to bring this up I'm about as PC as AIDS in a brothel ,you know how lefties like to jump on these things
But after Stockholm is it a good such a good idea to have a humorous cartoon featuring a HGV trunk
Diesel tractors in Antarctica - well M Mann sure gets it
https:// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFTEZTuLRoM
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3 degrees: Chief scientist warns bigger rise in world's temperature will put 400 million at risk
By Andrew Grice, Political Editor Published: 15 April 2006
http://www.terranature.org/3degrees.htm
Should of course be "terror nature"
Tony Heller is fighting to save the environment from people who claim to be environmentalists in Boulder, Colorado.
Insanity rules.
https://realclimatescience.com/2017/04/climate-activists-destroying-the-environment/
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What I find strange about this is there is no mention of the government reversing its current policy of paying huge subsidies to businesses installing diesel generators under the STOR scheme (Short Term Operating Reserve). STOR involves the government paying diesel operators many times the going rate to generate electricity for the grid. It exists because the government panicked when it became obvious even to idiots like politicians that intermittent renewables are nothing less than an unmitigated disaster when connected to the grid. There is no reason to believe that STOR diesels are any less polluting than those in motor cars, yet there is no suggestion they are going to be penalised as car owners are likely to be. Can it be that to phase out STOR publicly and desist from hosing it down with taxpayers' money would mean the whole mad energy policy bandwagon finally crashing into the buffers for all to see?
"There is no reason to believe that STOR diesels are any less polluting than those in motor cars, ..."
Martin - quite the opposite AFAICT:
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The Environment Agency’s Air Quality Modelling and Assessment Unit (AQMAU) were asked by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) to investigate the potential for diesel generator arrays, for National Grid back up to cause a breach of the short term nitrogen dioxide (NO2) air quality Standard1. The NO2 short term standard is an hourly mean limit value of 200 μg/m3, not to be exceeded more than 18 times a year. Diesel generator arrays are a popular choice for applicants and operators in the energy capacity market to provide backup to the National Grid, due to lower cost, no gas connection requirements and quick ramp up times. This assessment considers diesel generator arrays with a combined power input of less than 50 megawatt thermal (MWth) and operating for up to 500 hours per year. The 50 MWth constraint has been selected because under the Industrial Emissions Directive2 these arrays would be Part A(1) installations and subject to regulation by the Environment Agency. 500 operating hours has been selected because generators operating less than 500 hours per year may be exempt from complying with emission limits under the Medium Combustion Plant Directive3.
https://consult.defra.gov.uk/airquality/medium-combustion-plant-and-controls-on-generators/supporting_documents/Generator%20EA%20air%20dispersion%20modelling%20report.pdf
From here:
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Consultation on reducing emissions from Medium Combustion Plants and Generators to improve air quality
November 2016
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The consultation runs for 12 weeks. The consultation will close 8 February 2017.
Following the close of the consultation period, Government will publish a summary of all the responses received, unless specifically notified otherwise
Government will, within 3 months of the close of the consultation, publish the consultation response. This response will take the form of decisions made in light of the consultation and reasons given for decisions finally taken. This document will be published on the Defra website with paper copies available on request.
https://consult.defra.gov.uk/airquality/medium-combustion-plant-and-controls-on-generators/supporting_documents/161221%20Amended%20Condoc%20%20published.pdf
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So in summary of the stupidity of the Green Blob:
Diesel engines (ie compression ignition engines) have now been found to be killing tens of thousands of people per year, even though no living person had noticed. We were told to switch to diesel engines, because they were better for the environment.
The type of fuel used in a diesel engine does not have to be "Diesel" as sold at garages in the UK. Lots of people, companies etc bought diesel engined vehicles, so they could run them on used chip fat and purpose grown veggie oil, because it was even better for the Environment, but this isn't true either, as it is the compression ignition engine, not the actual fuel, that kills all these people that no one had noticed.
Bio fuel production HAS caused armed conflict, famine and death due to food shortages, which the Green Blob have blamed on Global Warming.
We now have electricity generation increasingly reliant on Unreliable methods of generating electricity. Realising things had gone wrong, Emergency Generators have been installed to keep Government Offices and Hospitals running during a failure of Unreliables. These Emergency Diesel Generators have been renamed STORs, so the public won't realise they are Emergency Diesel Generators.
This is now more embarrassing, because David King who advised the Government now says he was wrong, and our hospitals now depend on diesel engines to power ambulances to get those at risk to hospital, and power the hospital, whilst the latest experts are saying diesel sends people to hospitals and graveyards.
These STORs are allowed to run for 500 hours per year. 500÷24=20 days and nights continuous running and life saving in hospitals ( + tea breaks and refuelling, because they probably don't store that amount of fuel, and the diesel tanker will be powered by more diesel anyway)
All of this to save us from the non-existent Global Warming, caused by CO2 that remains deemed guilty, despite zero evidence. Shouldn't we just switch off the Green Blob's Life Support, ie money?
Yep, gc, we had the tragedy, now the farce. Tell me, please, which is which?
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Yep, gc, we had the tragedy, now the farce. Tell me, please, which is which?
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Apr 10, 2017 at 8:27 PM | kim
Climate Science is a farce, AND a tragedy, combined. It is not a special offer, you are forced to buy one, and are then forced to buy the other for ten times the advertised price, again and again.
PH has yet another article about models
And
Steve Milloy : Exposes big problems with the death stat claims and he's supported by a senior retired expert in that.
#1 The WTimes article The EPA lied — nobody died
"The Environmental Protection Agency’s human experiment program exaggerated the danger of outdoor pollutants"
Context : The harm from diesels is supposed to come from Particulates and NOx
He explains EPA have been caught in a bind and are admitting that particulates PM25 aren't so harmful ..otherwise they'd have to explain why they've continued with exposing their human research subjects.
#2 \\Epidemiologist accuses prominent EPA-funded researchers of ‘deliberate misrepresentation’ //
Euan Mearns has a detailed piece on all of this, Mortality from Diesel Car Pollution in the UK
Euan Mearns has a detailed piece on all of this, Mortality from Diesel Car Pollution in the UK
Sorry, duplicate posts
oops, duplicate
Climate Science has passed its Political Sell-By Date, though Taxpayers still have it rammed down their throats, when it is unfit for public consumption.
The demise of Fake News attributed to Climate Science, correlating deaths to causes linked to their earnings, gets more painful, the longer it is dragged out.
Like most folk I bought a diesel engine purely on the basis that it cost less to run at a time when fuel prices were sky-high. Both petrol and diesel fuel are the same price and were increasing in price by the same amounts largely due to carbon taxes and false fears about peak oil leading to wild specualtion. The idea that anyone bought diesel instead of petrol to save the planet is risible. The sheeple do not give a toss about climate change. The few faux-greens who profess to care rarely translate that into actions with their purchases.
There is no diesel versus petrol debate. The green blob doesn't want either. But as an excellent recent documentary reminded us, the modern world depends on diesel so it isn't going away any time soon. All we have here is an excuse for more taxation to spend on more white elephants.
Vaguely off-topic - but sort of relevant....
Can anyone explain to me how three s*dding great wind turbines near the roundabout where the A22 out of Eastbourne meets the A27 Polegate bypass - got approval..?
Not only are they a massive eyesore - and more often than not stationary of course - but a SERIOUS road safety hazard as you approach them up the A22, because they demand that you take your eyes off the road at a crucial junction...
We are told not to use mobile phones etc whilst driving - but I wonder how many extra accidents and near-misses these dreadful things have caused..?
Maybe Sussex Police can provide the figures...
Sherlock1: given the propensity of parts of those things to take a “leap into independence,” it will not be too long before a public death is caused. Like so many things in life, it is only at that point when their presence and worth will be re-evaluated.
Diesel STOR is subsidised at nearly 12x Grid Price. It was, against scientific advice by the late Dvid McKay, introduced by Lib Dumb Ed Davey when he realised in 2012 that the windmills did not work. The practical purpose is to provide an extra earnings' stream for government. The windmills still do not work but the lights stay on as Grid prices continue to rise.
Apr 17, 2017 at 10:11 AM | sherlock1
Give it a few years, and there will be statistics about the number of road deaths caused by wind turbines. Whether more accidents are caused by drivers distracted and surprised to seem them turning, or drivers distracted and angry at seeing them continually not turning, will be predetermined by the funding source of the research and subsequent report.
There GC goes again- it must be the cumulative effect of all those Josh cartoons.
https://vvattsupwiththat.blogspot.com/2017/04/josh-throws-another-wild-punch-for.html
Why do you ask questions when you do not allow anyone to answer, Mr Seitz? Fear of being called out? While science in Doctor Johnson's day may well have been grounded in “certainty,” science has grown up a lot since then, and accepts that certainty is NOT always attainable. Most of the truly great scientists cheerfully accept that; it is only the weak-willed wannabes who can convince themselves that they have found this elusive “certainty.”
It is also a bit odd how you should pick on the hapless Golf Charlie in your attack on Josh’s cartoons when he (or she – or it, now, considering the medical travails endured) was commenting on the possibility of wind-turbines causing road accidents. Yours is a strange mind, indeed, Mr Seitz.
Ravishing Rattie.
You ignore the obvious answer - his foamship comes here for only one reason - to advertize his vanity project website where nobody, IHHO (in his "humble" opinion), has the necessary mental acuity to comment upon the riches laid forth therein. Without the necessary fertilization of a website, such as this one, by comments from a diversity of respondents, it withers.
I suggest a competition for the best representation of the acronym VV, clearly what is suggested on his website is totally inappropriate. Gwendolyn your time has come.
Quote time!
This is from one of my favourites, Richard Feynman, and a particularly apposite one for Mr Seitz: “If you thought science was certain, well, that is just an error on your part.”
Yep. I guessed that, Minty. It was more of a rhetorical question, one that might get Mr Seitz thinking, for a change. His silence could indicate a few scenarios: he is mulling over what was said, and reviewing his entire life; he is in a momentous sulk; or, he is not really a frequent visitor to sites where he drops his bon mots, so could be in for a shock.
Radical rodent refers to the wrong GC post.
BH customary denizens represent the modern antithesis of Dryden's Augustan wisdom, by turns ignorant and adamantly oblivious to the reproducible experiments on which the physics of radiative transfer are grounded.
His foamship comes here for only one reason – to advertise his excremental vanity project. When you do get a glimpse of it – well it goes up in flames.
https:// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFTEZTuLRoM html
Kleinefeldmaus (Apr 24, 2017 at 3:16 AM) I do think Rattie is more ravishing than you have shown her - she is, after all an Arvicola amphibius, not a Rattus rattus, nor a Rattus norvegicus. She has a rounder nose, deep brown fur, a chubby face and short fuzzy ears and her tail, paws and ears are all covered with beautiful hair.
You have done her wrong.
Aha Supertroll you are really quite disparaging of my portrayal l 3rd cousin whom I drew with loving faithfulness. And...notice her sprightly gait as she crossed the Bishop's bridge. But you miss the point my friend 'Super'. She dealt to that crappy intruder quick smart! In true rodent style. Saw him off a treat! She is a heroine! A True rodent.
Kleinefeldmaus. You are guilty of species blindness, but I applaud your uncanny portrayal of the sprightly gait and her determined and effective action.
Laudable effort, but could do better.
Supertroll - how could you say such a thing - I am familiar with all my family and their cousins by the dozens. As you can see, I live in a field of grain - but there is a stream nearby wherein my aquatically inclined cousins live. If you keep this up - I might be inclined to call on them for assistance - they are mean and have been known to drown trolls - even the super variety. So you might be happier to be gentle with cute little me.
https://kleinefeldmausorgnz.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/klenefeldmaous-no-speak.gif?w=300
Supertroll - Well I seem to have lost my voice - but in the meantime I have checked with my cuzzies in the water - yep they def drown trolls
https:// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFTEZTuLRoM html
Kleinefeldmaus.
Let us not quarrel, friends and allies should not bicker. Let Ravishing Rattie decide (if she can be bothered). I'm sure she will be utterly delighted 1) to be up in Hollywood lights, and 2) to be fought over, and of course she is never knowingly wrong. I only offered some species advice.
Trolls who sing beneath bridges, like my humble self, and river voles are friends although we often disagree. She can be a formidable defender, for which I am most grateful.
Ha ha Super - nope - I wasn't quarrelling - just having a bit o' fun - Oh yes I spotted you under the Bish's bridge a couple of years ago - but then it might have been another troll - y' know they all look the same to rodents like me.
Let's know if that VV Russell fella comes back - I will call on my water friends to deal with him.
Kleinefeldmaus
I am not sure whether to be flattered or offended – compounded by not being able to come up with anything even close to a witty response!
Nah… I’ve decided; offence is too selfish, as it is only take, take, take. I shall be flattered – at least you have not made me a shaven beaver! (That always seems to generate a giggle, but I’m still not sure why…)
Mr Seitz: you are behind the times! Out of interest, I find it useful when referring to posts prior to the subject’s last post to include a temporal reference – e.g. Mr Seitz (Apr 24, 2017 at 12:10 AM): blah, bla-blah, blah…
Now, tell us where we can find the evidence that global warming (or its significant lack thereof these past 2 decades) has anything to do with human-produced CO2. Please note: solid, verifiable scientific evidence is what is sought, not opinion pieces or references to models.
It would also be useful if you could show us the evidence that the rise in CO2 that we have had for about 2 centuries is all the fault of humans, particularly in relation to their consumption of fossil fuels. (Again, solid, verifiable evidence is required, not opinion pieces or models.)
Just those two points will enable you to help your cause, as most sceptics have been seeking such simple evidence for an awfully long time, and found nary a trace of it, so you would be doing us all – and science – a huge favour.
Hi Supertroll
Just went back to have a look at a bunch of trolls I saw at the Bish's bridge a couple of years ago -Not the prettiest - are you among this lot?
Just askin'
https:// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFTEZTuLRoM html
Kleinefeldmaus. I returned to this site around February 2016 after a long lapse (2010?). As to my "prettiness" that depends upon who you ask, however my features are more refined than those you picture.
Kleinefeldmaus. are you not a handsome Schermaus yourself? Your Disneyesque appearance (furry ears etc) would seem to rule you out of being a fine example of the Apodemus clan. Are you just a confused Arvicola?
Supertroll then I can take it as a no – you weren’t among the lot who took that dip in the water.
As to my family I am definitely a feldmaus. We migrated to the South Pacific where the fields were green with plentiful grain and we multiplied – exponentially but the Schurmaus family never came – they wouldn’t leave their burrows poor timid folk. So confused ....well yes ...but vole ...nope.
My understanding is that passenger-size vehicle diesel engines produced much less nasties 20 years ago, before they were tinkered with by big Auto to reduce OCO-2. By de-tuning them to emit lower OCO-2, they actually emit a lot more NOX, particulates etc. A simple solution - re-tune them. Oh wait a minute, thats non negotiable!
Who torched Kleinefeldmaus's link? The video was even less interesting than his non-pseudonym !
Vilipendous Vieux. Been playing with matches again? Speaking of duff pseudonyms....
VV 'Buttercup' passes by......again...
https:// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFTEZTuLRoM
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This is even more clueless than Douglas Field's earlier 'Gatecrashing ' effort- as a matter of reecord, I was invited to , and did delliver Congressional committee testimony years before Drs. Currry, Christy. Mann & Pielke. albeit my primary climate science briefing duties were to the White House..
My condolences to the Bishop on his preterite flock.
Yes
Poor old Russell - we did notice you there - invited? ...;well ....if you say so ...Buttercup
https://youtu.be/LipmOoSpx_E
Yes
Poor old Russell - we did notice you there - invited? ...;well ....if you say so ...Buttercup
https:// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFTEZTuLRoM