EXCLUSIVE: EPA Asked To Invalidate A Pillar Of Obama’s Climate Agenda

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Two groups — Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council (CHECC) — claim EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding” should be updated with new evidence invalidating the agency’s previous claim greenhouse gases threatened public health. CEI filed its petition in late February, but did not publicize it. Sam Kazman, CEI’s general counsel, told […]

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April 10, 2017 at 12:29AM

Off to a bumbling start at Interior

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Was it because there were too few senior Trump Administration officials in place to catch and stop it? Or because Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was new on the job, and had so much on his plate, that this decision just slipped right past him? Maybe it was because the new Administration faces […]

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April 9, 2017 at 11:29PM

McKitrick on Air Pollution: The models get ‘more deaths from air pollution than you were death from all causes’

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By Paul Homewood

 

 

Further to today’s comments about deaths from air pollution, it is worth noting what Ross McKittrick had to say on the subject in 2014:

 

 

McKitrick on Air Pollution: The models get ‘more deaths from air pollution than you were death from all causes’ – ‘Particulates and soot are at such low levels in the U.S. — levels well below what they were in the 1970s. The health claims at this point are groundless coming from this administration.

I noticed these numbers coming up for Ontario for how many deaths were caused by air pollution. What struck me — was knowing that air pollution levels were very low in Ontario — but they were extremely high in 1960s. So I took the same model and fed in the 1960s air pollution levels into it: How many deaths would you get? I did the calculations and you quickly get more deaths from air pollution than you were death from all causes.

In other words, the streets would have been littered with bodies from air pollution if it was actually that lethal. The problem with all of these models is they are not based on an actual examination of death certificates or looking at what people actually died of — these are just statistical models where people have a spreadsheet and they take in an air pollution level and it pops out a number of deaths. But there are no actual bodies there, it is all just extrapolation.’

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Unfortunately the link to the original interview with Sun News is now broken, but what Ross says rings true.

For instance, we know that in the UK emissions of most air pollutants have nosedived since 1990. (The only exception is ammonia, which I understand is agriculture related)

 

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And as WUWT reports, despite similar drops in US air pollution, cases of asthma have actually increased in the same period.

 

The simple reality is that, since the Year Dot,  people have always died from respiratory diseases and associated problems, regardless of the cause.

To pretend that it has something to do with modern life is ridiculous.

 

 

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April 9, 2017 at 10:00PM

Contrail warming in context

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Comment: Global warming was not important in my analysis Comment: CO2 was not important or relevant Comment: Natural variation was not important I now understand why researchers tend to “look where the light is” and often ignore the big picture. … Continue reading →

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