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In recent years we’ve seen a lot of bad headlines about diesel. Why do diesel engines have such a bad reputation? How much does diesel exhaust affect our health really? And what’s the car industry doing about it? In this video we go through the numbers.

The road test results on CO2 and nitrogen oxides which I mention at 4 minutes is here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

The figure which I show at 7 minutes 14 seconds is from this report:
http://crcsite.wpengine.com/wp-conten...

The photo of particulates in lung tissue at 9 minutes is from this paper:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

The 2007 study I summarize at 9 mins 23 seconds is this:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...

The 2013 Lancet paper I mention at 10 minutes 5 seconds is here:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...

The paper I mention at 10 mintes 42 seconds about the correlation between air pollution and cognitive performance is this:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...

The air quality website I mention at 11 mins 5 seconds is https://www.iqair.com/

And the air pollution report I mention at around 12 minutes is here:
https://www.iqair.com/us/world-air-qu...

The graphic I discuss at 12 minutes 44 seconds is from here:
https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-ma...

And finally, the paper I mention at 16 minutes 22 seconds about the comparison between diesel and gasoline exhaust is here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...

Many thanks to Jordi Busqué for helping with this video http://jordibusque.com/

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0:00 Intro
1:00 Dieselgate
1:55 Why is diesel so controversial?
3:13 Nitrogen oxides
4:44 Particulates
11:02 What are the regulations?
14:26 What is the car industry doing?
17:01 What did we learn from this?
17:32 Sponsor message