A new study in JAMA reports that among people who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day for 20 years, the risk of cardiovascular disease returns to that of a nonsmoker for 10-15 years after quitting. Here’s what this means for PM2.5 in outdoor air.
Continue reading More real-world evidence that PM2.5 in outdoor doesn’t kill
We have been told that the July 2019 European heat wave brought record hot temps — e.g., 101.7F at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden in eastern England and 114.6 in France. But check out what happened 75 years ago on August 14, 1944 in New York City.
Continue reading A cautionary word on extreme temperatures during heat waves…
“Almost everyone can make false and misleading statements with virtual impunity, except if you are the CEO of a publicly-owned company.”
Continue reading SEC petitioned to stop climate lying by corporations
I’m not surprised. The EPA IG is corrupt. JunkScience.com readers will recall, for example, the EPA IG whitewash of EPA’s illegal human testing. BTW, who puts the conclusion in the title of an IG report?
Continue reading Dirty Deeds: EPA Inspector General Whitewashes Rogue Testing of Glider Trucks
Find out what a $10 million grant from the Obama administration can produce.
Continue reading Obama EPA grantees attempt to railroad Trump EPA on PM2.5
“Steve Milloy, who runs JunkScience.com, a website focused on undermining climate science, helped write EPA’s science playbook as a member of Trump’s transition team.”
More political science from the American Medical Association. Takes us back to January 1999 when we got then-JAMA editor George Lundberg fired for trying to influence Bill Clinton’s Senate trial with a ‘study’ reporting that oral sex isn’t sex.
“Australia’s Federation Drought, spanning 1895 to 1903, was one of the world’s worst recorded megadroughts.” So… what caused the megadrought 120 years and 120 ppm CO2 ago?
Continue reading CO2 link to mega-drought debunked by Australian government scientists
“This paper reveals that in Muller’s (1927) Nobel Prize research he used a treatment exposure (total dose) that was 95 million-fold greater than the average background exposure, a value far greater than the 200,000 fold reported by Muller and Mott-Smith (1930).”
“… overpowering influence of low dose biostatistical modeling perspectives that swayed the quantitatively overwhelmed chemical toxicologists. This resulted in the LNT policy going forward, becoming broadly institutionalized across many governmental agencies and in multiple countries. The rest is history.”
It’s always like shootin’ fish in a barrel.
Continue reading NO… ‘rising sea levels’ won’t cost Seattle $23 billion
