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发帖数: 29846 | 1 左派=专制：加州的左派们创造了数百个独立委员会，养活左派官僚们。他们不必向选
民负责，不需要州长
或议会批准就可以制定各种规则。其中的空气资源会，被揭发伪造污染数据
BREAKING: SFO Chronicle says “Faulty science behind state’s landmark
diesel
law” – an error of 340%
Posted on October 7, 2010 by Anthony Watts
I wouldn’t have believed it if it were in any other newspaper but the very
liberal San Francisco Chronicle – h/t to WUWT reader “crosspatch” who
writes:
Was AB32 based on any data provided by the Air Resources Board?
According to various articles:
http://www.globalclimatelaw.com/2008/12/articles/environmental/carb-
unanimously-approves-ab-32-implementation-plan/
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/new-carb-economic-analysis-ab32-
0362.html
CARB had a lot of input in this legislation. They have a history if politics
interfering with science and I have no confidence that this law is based on
sound findings.
Here’s the story from the Chron:
(10-07) 16:36 PDT Sacramento - –
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.
The staff of the powerful and widely respected Air Resources Board said the
overestimate is largely due to the board calculating emissions before the
economy slumped, which halted the use of many of the 150,000 diesel-exhaust
spewing vehicles in California. Independent researchers, however, found huge
overestimates in the Air Board’s work on diesel emissions and attributed
the
flawed work to a faulty method of calculation – not the economic downturn.
The overestimate, which comes after another bad calculation by the Air Board
on diesel-related deaths that made headlines in 2009, prompted the board to
suspend the regulation earlier this year while officials decided whether to
weaken the rule.
Today, after months of work, the Air Board and construction industry
officials announced they agreed on a major scale-back of the rule – a
proposal that includes delaying the start of the requirements until 2014 and
exempting more vehicles from the rule. The announcement was made as The
Chronicle was preparing to publish this report, which had been in the works
for several weeks.
The setbacks in the Air Board’s research – and the proposed softening of a
landmark regulation – raise questions about the performance of the agency
as
it is in the midst of implementing the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
– or AB32 as it is commonly called, one of the state’s and nation’s most
ambitious environmental policies to date.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
f=/c/a/2010/10/07/BAOF1FDMRV.DTL#ixzz11iqEfuN9 |
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