[neverdem]

Diesel motor heads are going to love hearing this.

Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah

[neverdem]

PING

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[Texas Eagle]

NASA scientists say that soot, mostly from diesel engines, is causing as much as a quarter of all observed global warming ....

Fine. I'll convert my truck to burn solid rocket fuel.

[snopercod]

My albedo has been a little weak lately, too.

Maybe I'll find some Viagra in my stocking tomorrow!

[CHICAGOFARMER]

You calling me a Diesel motor head?

Just because I drive diesel?/

[cake_crumb]

Algore paid NASA to come to this conclusion...along with a few others coming up. If they didn't he would not have funfed NASA. Science and politics do NOT mix.

[dasboot]

NASA oughta concentrate on retrieving living astronauts.

[Steve_Seattle]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't diesel a favored fuel in . . . Europe?

[RightWhale]

actual inventories of diesel particulate emissions in the U.S.

It's not just the US. We try, but we aren't doing it by ourselves. Got lots of help. Seems like just a few years ago Soviet Russian technicians were spreading soot on snowcovered wheatfields in an attempt to get a longer growing season. Looks like everybody has joined in and it is working. The snow gets kind of gray and disgusting by spring.

[tbeatty]

20 years ago, clear cutting of forests caused large reflecting areas on the planet that was going to cause the next ice age (watch Carl Sagan in the Cosmos series).

Obvisously, the answer to soot is to clear cut more forests so that we can get more reflecting surface on the planet.

[Mike Darancette]

That is just wrong. The Washington Fish-wrap is uo to it's old tricks.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Soot?Ha!Dumb shi*s must be crazy as this is so miniscule.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The fact that NASA is participating in the global warming fraud is yet more evidence that it has devolved into a cesspool of bureaucratic CYA turf-protectors interested only in securing as much Congressional funding as possible.

I will never support a US space program until NASA is abolished and anyone currently employed in a management position by NASA permanently disallowed from being employed by its successor.

[DustyMoment]

(sigh) Junk science just has a way of attracting people who enjoy ignoring the facts.

However, just for fun, let's pretend that diesel fuel emissions really are the problem. If this is the real cause of "global warming" and the U.S. is considered the largest contributor of pollutants leading to global warming, I would like someone to explain something to me; why is it when I was in Buenos Aires many years ago, the air 1/2 a block away from me was blue because of all the diesel powered buses that would congregate in a particular part of the downtown area? And, with each bus that entered or departed this area, the air got that much bluer?

There is such a heavy proliferation of badly maintained diesel engines throughout Central and South America that, IF we believe that diesel exhaust emissions are the culprit in "global warming", why is America still the primary target of the enviro-whackos?

I would also be curious to know why NASA is buying into this current load of ca-ca? If memory serves me correctly, "Global Warming" was initially the theory of a NASA scientist in the 70s until around the turn of the new century when the NASA scientist that developed the theory of "global warming" was forced to renounce the theory due to the lack of supporting data. So now NASA wants to buy into a new whacko theory. And they wonder why the rest of the country has concerns about their ability to safely send man into space and bring him back safely - and alive. Gee, I wonder why?

[JohnBovenmyer]

How much is from diesel, how much is from burning fuels rarely burned in the US? Such as the large amount of cattle dung burned for fuel in India, which has been reported to cause a large black cloud over the Bay of Bengal. I suspect more than just India in the third world burns a lot of soot producing fuel.

[Darksheare]

Grasping at straws.
Always.
*Snort*
And.. say.. soot from mega forest fires before written history wouldn't do anything?
Nice how they claim that it's EVIL MAN'S fault.
Guess we know why NASA doesn't really want to do research now, they don't care about furthering mankind anymore.

[CurlyDave]

OK Dammit!

Is it soot or is it CO2 ?

Make up your minds.

Whatever these morons say it is going to cost big bucks, but we are tired of being told to pay up to recuce something that isn't even the culprit.

When NASA figures out how to reduce the solar output they will fix global warming...