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Diesel Cars Contribute To 5,000 Premature Deaths a Year In Europe, Says Study (phys.org)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: Emissions from diesel cars rigged to appear eco-friendly may be responsible for 5,000 air pollution deaths per year in Europe alone, according to a study published on Monday. The numbers are in line with previous assessments of deaths due to the so-called "Dieselgate" scandal, which erupted when carmaker Volkswagen admitted in 2015 to cheating on vehicle emissions tests. Many other carmakers have since fallen under suspicion. The researchers from Norway, Austria, Sweden and the Netherlands calculated that about 10,000 deaths in Europe per year can be attributed to small particle pollution from light duty diesel vehicles (LDDVs). Almost half of these would have been avoided if emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from diesel cars on the road had matched levels measured in the lab. If diesel cars emitted as little NOx as petrol ones, almost 4,000 of the 5,000 premature deaths would have been avoided, said the authors. The countries with the heaviest burden are Italy, Germany, and France, the team added, "resulting from their large populations and high share of diesel cars in their national fleets." Touted as less polluting, the share of diesel cars in Europe rose fast compared to petrol since the 1990s, and now comprise about half the fleet. There are more than 100 million diesel cars in Europe today, twice as many as in the rest of the world together, said the study authors. Diesel engines emit less planet-warming carbon dioxide than petrol ones, but significantly more NOx. The study has been published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
That comment isn't 'off-topic' at all. It's very on-topic! The problem described in the summary is how European leadership is focusing on minor, vague, politically correct problems while ignoring far more serious, yet politically sensitive, problems. Anyone who has been to Paris or London or Cologne or Marseille or Rome or Stockholm or most other large Western European cities within the past 2 years will know exactly what the GP is talking about. Illegal aliens are far more harmful to the citizens of such places than some minimal diesel engine emissions are.
When muslims reaching a critical percentage of the population of ANY country they are in, it ALWAYS ends in civil war, with millions of people being killed, or driven out of their own homelands. You obviously know nothing about the history of Islam, can't be bothered to do a bit of reading on it, and then proceed to tell us we are wrong and should want to watch our countries being destroyed by immigration...
Still, we wouldn't want you to have to question your god - the media - would we...