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German Shock at Car Exhaust Tests on Humans and Monkeys

posted by martyb on Tuesday January 30 2018, @01:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the Don't-Read^W-Breathe-Between-the-Lines dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The German government has denounced experiments funded by German carmakers in which humans and monkeys reportedly inhaled diesel exhaust fumes.

On Thursday The New York Times reported that the EUGT research was designed to counter a 2012 decision by the World Health Organization to classify diesel exhaust as a carcinogen.

It said that in 2014, EUGT had exposed 10 monkeys to fumes - in an air-tight chamber - from several cars, including a diesel VW Beetle. The testing took place at a lab in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Then at the weekend Germany's Stuttgarter Zeitung and SWR radio reported that 19 men and six women had inhaled diesel fumes in another EUGT experiment.

During a month of tests at a lab in Aachen, west Germany, they were exposed to various concentrations of diesel fumes, which contain toxic nitrogen oxides (NOx). The BBC has not seen the study itself, but German media say it was published in 2016.

At the time the carmakers were arguing that modern technology had cut pollution from diesel engines to safe levels. But VW was later found to have fitted "cheat" devices that rigged the emissions data.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42858668

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @04:19PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @04:19PM (#630430)

    I just can't get past the fact that car companies were pumping the fear of global warming to help Diesel sales. From the NYT article:

    In the 1990s, carmakers used their political clout to persuade European leaders that diesel helped fight climate change because it burns more efficiently than gasoline.
    ...
    The automakers’ research group was created in 2007, as Volkswagen was readying a major push to market diesel technology in the United States, which has stricter limits on nitrogen oxide emissions than Europe.

    Angela Merkel was the German environment minister from 1994 to 1998. I would rather take election advice from Vladimir Putin than environmental advice from a European politician.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 31 2018, @10:39AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 31 2018, @10:39AM (#630898)

    How life in Blackandwhiteville? Real life is complex.

    in option A variables 1,7,34 improve but variables 2,3,16 degrade. In option B variables 6,8,33 improve but variables 4,5 degrade. Which one is better?

    Then again thanks for admitting you're but a Putin troll. Back to your cave trogdolyte.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 31 2018, @04:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 31 2018, @04:10PM (#630988)

      And you can go back to drinking the green Kool Aid, I mean breathing the Diesel fumes.