In a shocking display of Government miscalculations the state of California miscalculated their pollution estimates in 2007. If this was just an estimate done for no reason then it might be somewhat forgivable and written off as an idiotic bureaucrat. However that was not the case. The Pollution estimate was used to tighten the State's power over pollution regulations. Here is a little of the article to get you going:
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 this year while officials decided whether to weaken the rule.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/07/BAOF1FDMRV.DTL#ixzz11p2PBSMg
This is the type of nonsense the whole "Global Warming / Climate Change" "science" is based off of. It is based on wrong numbers inputted on purpose to skew weather models to get the desired result. They all should be put in jail for this scam! Now that's the All Right Idea!!!