Thread: RUC increases

I agree with you on diesel, particularly modern DPF systems.
What I actually said, is that we need to reduce the vehicle density. I did not target diesel or any other propulsion.
In fact, EV's are 2000 times more polluting than IC engine exhausts, due to particulates from tyres (not exclusive to EV's of course).
I marvel at how you can run your finger around the inside of a Toyota Hiace DPF tailpipe that has done 200 thousand kilometres, and get no soot at all. Shine a torch up there, and all you see is bright shiny steel as if the pipe was brand new.
Particulates are just as bad as CO2, especially from tyres, because all stormwater albeit inland or coastal, ends up in the ocean.
Yes, the cores at Vic Uni in wellington are still ambiguous, but next summer if all goes well, the much deeper cores will produce empirical data that will be very difficult to argue against.
And yes, you are right about the floods being historical, but what's no longer historical is the frequency