Dan Walters: Air board's cover-up casts pall on diesel rules

Sacramento Bee ^ | 12/2/9 | Dan Walters

[SmithL]

A year ago, high officials of the California Air Resources Board learned that the author of a statistical study on diesel soot effects had falsified his academic credentials.

The CARB researcher, Hien Tran, acknowledged the deception and agreed to be demoted, but after his data were given another peer review, they remained the basis of highly controversial regulations that will cost owners of trucks, buses and other diesel-powered machinery millions of dollars to upgrade their engines. The Tran study concluded that diesel "particulate matter" was responsible for about 1,000 additional deaths each year.

Only recently, with the rules on the verge of final promulgation, did board officials formally acknowledge Tran's falsification, largely because one board member, Fresno cardiologist John Telles, did his own investigation and complained about an apparent cover-up.

Telles, in sharp letters to board officials and during last month's CARB meeting, said the chain of events casts a pall over the legitimacy of the vote to proceed with the new rules.

"Failure to reveal this information to the board prior to the vote not only casts doubt on the legitimacy of the truck rule, but also upon the legitimacy of CARB itself," Telles said, adding, however, that he doesn't question the validity of the science.

[SmithL]

"Failure to reveal this information to the board prior to the vote not only casts doubt on the legitimacy of the truck rule, but also upon the legitimacy of CARB itself,"

Not really, the whole purpose of CARB is to further a POLITICAL agenda, not a scientific one.

[jessduntno]

"A year ago, high officials of the California Air Resources Board learned that the author of a statistical study on diesel soot effects had falsified his academic credentials." The officials were high?

[EagleUSA]

Not really, the whole purpose of CARB is to further a POLITICAL agenda, not a scientific one.
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Without any doubt. It is what the so-called government of Taxifornia is all about. POLITICAL POWER. The state and its people be damned....so goes any liberal-controlled state.

[Red Badger]

Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.....

If you want ON or OFF the DIESEL ”KnOcK” LIST just FReepmail me.....

This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days.....

[Cold Heart]

Tran was demoted to the climatology department.

[stboz]

This bullsh*t is costing my employer a pile of money....money better spent on being competitive rather than being needlessly "clean."

We, the regulated community, need to haul out their data and see if there's been monkey-business.

[Yo-Yo]

Is this going to have any effect on the mandated Clean-Diesel trucks at California ports?

[Oatka]

. . . the author of a statistical study on diesel soot effects had falsified his academic credentials.
and
"Failure to reveal this information to the board prior to the vote not only casts doubt on the legitimacy of the truck rule, . . . adding, however, that he doesn't question the validity of the science.

"Fake but accurate".

It seems that the hacking of the climate data has set off a general questioning of ALL these types of "studies". I doubt that there are only two.

[SouthTexas]

No, you don’t understand, it’s the INTENT that counts!

[stboz]

I have met Telles. He’s pretty dang sharp.

[Logical me]

Is this going to have any effect on the mandated Clean-Diesel trucks at California ports?

Nothing will change in a communists far left liberal State or Feds. Fraud, lying and spin is the left way of life and Kalifornia is polluted with these RATS.

[chiller]

With the CRU scandal, and today swindling in the Denmark (COPENHAGEN !)carbon credit market, and now this crap in Kalifornia one might begin to glean a hint that we're seeing the tip of the iceberg (pun intended) in the worldwide global warming scam.

...but maybe its just me....

[SmithL]

I doubt it.

[FreedomPoster]

>>”Failure to reveal this information to the board prior to the vote not only casts doubt on the legitimacy of the truck rule, but also upon the legitimacy of CARB itself,” Telles said, adding, however, that he doesn’t question the validity of the science.

Why wouldn’t you question the validity of the science, when the scientist involved is a proven liar? Especially when we have the example of the East Anglia CRU for so-called “scientists” lying to appease power-hungry politicians.

[SunkenCiv]

Falsified academic credentials? Hey, if he also cheats on his taxes, there’ll be a job for him in the Obama administration.

[norraad]

Also, the low sulphur is a bit of a ruse.

The sulphur is needed to help lubricate the engines and help them last longer.

It's also a nightmare for refiners to get that last little bit of sulphur out of the crude, it really hangs on.

Better all around to just leave it be, "sleepin' dogs", and all that.

[tubebender]

CARB PING...

[SouthTexas]

Doesn't matter that the research is flawed, the researchers are frauds, just believe us, we're from the government and we're here to help you.

[NormsRevenge]

the whole purpose of CARB is to further a POLITICAL agenda, not a scientific one.

worth repeating ;-)

[SierraWasp]

www.KILLCARB.org!!!