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Whenever an industry is threatoned with regulations that increase control on a pollution that is a known medical hazard, it uses the very words you just did, Ian. From asbestos to cigarette smoke.
Those words are called "common sense." Whenever environmental wackos can't justify their outraeous assaults on industry, they accuse anyone arguing against them of sinister ulteriour motives. And for your information, neither of the industries you mentioned claimed their products weren't detrimental to human health. They also aren't environmental pollutants. EPA regulations don't apply.
Can you name one person who has died or even gotten sick as a result of soot spewed by diesel truck?.
Ah Pattycake, you continue to be such a dumb fuck.
NJ DEP - Diesel Idling Information on www.StopTheSoot.org
Does diesel exhaust affect a person's health?
Exhaust from diesel engines can be extremely harmful to a person's health. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) believes that diesel exhaust poses one of the greatest public health risks of all air pollutants. In New Jersey, nearly 400 premature deaths, 16,000 asthma attacks and 1,800 emergency-room visits could be prevented each year by reducing diesel soot emissions by 20 percent (1).
Thanks for proving that you're a gullible tool. The EPA has paid the American Lung Association 20 million dollars to say what the EPA wants it to say.
Bripat man.....the government could come in and ransack and rob their houses.........all of these nuts. They'd still blindly trust their government.These cheesedicks think regulations are a zero-sum game. Its fascinating.
Just ask anyone with serve asthma. Diesel exhaust fumes on polluted streets have a measurable effect on people with asthma. In a ventilated tunnel, if traffic stops for more than a few minutes, I'm fighting to get my breath and sucking away on a rescue inhaler.Ah Pattycake, you continue to be such a dumb fuck.
NJ DEP - Diesel Idling Information on www.StopTheSoot.org
Does diesel exhaust affect a person's health?
Exhaust from diesel engines can be extremely harmful to a person's health. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) believes that diesel exhaust poses one of the greatest public health risks of all air pollutants. In New Jersey, nearly 400 premature deaths, 16,000 asthma attacks and 1,800 emergency-room visits could be prevented each year by reducing diesel soot emissions by 20 percent (1).
What the EPA believes isn't at issue here. I asked if you could name a single person who has been harmed by diesel exhaust in the environment. EPA extrapolations are pure bullshit. Show us a diagnosis that says "harmed by diesel exhaust."
So far, you're batting 0.000.
NCI Cancer Bulletin for March 6, 2012 - National Cancer Institute
Diesel exhaust is cancer-causing: UN health body - Yahoo! News
Diesel Exhaust Fumes Affect People With Asthma, Finds Study On London's Oxford Street
Just ask anyone with serve asthma. Diesel exhaust fumes on polluted streets have a measurable effect on people with asthma. In a ventilated tunnel, if traffic stops for more than a few minutes, I'm fighting to get my breath and sucking away on a rescue inhaler.
Just ask anyone with serve asthma. Diesel exhaust fumes on polluted streets have a measurable effect on people with asthma. In a ventilated tunnel, if traffic stops for more than a few minutes, I'm fighting to get my breath and sucking away on a rescue inhaler.
I don't know anyone who lives in a tunnel. Soot levels in residential areas are so low they are virtually undetectable.
End of story.
Scientists say that particles from diesel engines and wood burning could be having twice as much warming effect as assessed in past estimates. They say it ranks second only to carbon dioxide as the most important climate warming agent. The research has been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. Black carbon aerosols have been known to warm the atmosphere for many years by absorbing sunlight. They also speed the melting of ice and snow.
Half a degree
This new study concludes the dark particles are having a warming effect approximately two thirds that of carbon dioxide, and greater than methane. "The large conclusion is that forcing due to black carbon in the atmosphere is larger," lead author Sarah Doherty told BBC News. "The value the IPCC gave in their 4th assessment report in 2007 is half of what we are presenting in this report - it's a little bit shocking,"
The researchers say black carbon emissions in Europe and North America have been declining due to restrictions on emissions from diesel engines. But they have been growing steadily in the developing world. However as these type of particles don't last very long in the atmosphere, cutting their number would have an immediate impact on temperatures. "Reducing emissions from diesel engines and domestic wood and coal fires is a no-brainer as there are tandem health and climate benefits," said Professor Piers Forster from the University of Leeds. "If we did everything we could to reduce these emissions we could buy ourselves up to half a degree less warming, or a couple of decades of respite," he added.
The report warns that the role of black carbon is complex and can have cooling and warming effects. "Mitigation is a complex issue because soot is typically emitted with other particles and gases that probably cool the climate," said Prof Forster, "For instance, organic matter in the atmosphere produced by open vegetation burning likely has a cooling effect. Therefore the net effect of eliminating that source might not give us the desired cooling," he added.
Black carbon is said to be a significant source of rapid warming in the northern United States, Canada, northern Europe and northern Asia. The particles are also said to have an impact on rainfall patterns in the Asian monsoon. Last year a six nation coalition of countries began a combined effort to curb the impact of short lived climate agents such as black carbon. The authors say that while cutting back on soot is important, cutting carbon dioxide emissions is the best way to address climate change in the long term.
BBC News - Climate change: Soot's role 'underestimated' says study
