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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (30773)	10/8/2010 9:26:21 AM
From: FJB	Respond to of 36921

Overestimate fueled state's landmark diesel law Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau Friday, October 8, 2010 (10-08) 04:00 PDT Sacramento - -- sfgate.com California grossly miscalculated pollution levels in a scientific analysis used to toughen the state's clean-air standards, and scientists have spent the past several months revising data and planning a significant weakening of the landmark regulation, The Chronicle has found. The pollution estimate in question was too high - by 340 percent, according to the California Air Resources Board, the state agency charged with researching and adopting air quality standards. The estimate was a key part in the creation of a regulation adopted by the Air Resources Board in 2007, a rule that forces businesses to cut diesel emissions by replacing or making costly upgrades to heavy-duty, diesel-fueled off-road vehicles used in construction and other industries...

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (30773)	10/8/2010 6:02:39 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

Today's vocabulary word is "Albedo" Possibly the Worst Siting I Have Seen May 13, 2010, 9:57 am OK, we have to exempt from the “worst” list those that are sitting in front of air conditioning exhausts, but this is just awful: The natural environment for millions of acres around this site in Norway is reflective snow cover, so the temperature station is on black asphalt. climate-skeptic.com # Emil: The temperature station is used mainly for the sake of the airport activities, so it should reflect the condition on the airport. The mistake is using it for climate studies. May 14, 2010, 12:46 am climate-skeptic.com Also see climate-skeptic.com