My recent column at the DailySignal.com.
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NYTimes refuses to publish letter critical of reporting on EPA ‘secret science’ rule
In response to the New York Times recent front-page report on EPA’s coming re-proposal of its ‘secret science/transparency rule, Stan Young and Warren Kindzierski submitted the letter below, which was rejected by the Times. We present it here as an example of the reality denied to readers of the “paper of record.”
To the editor:
“E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules” fails to mention the science that supports the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule, Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science. For example, a 2014 study examined more than 2 million emergency hospital admissions and more than 600,000 deaths from heart disease in England and Wales. A 2017 California study looked at all death certificates for the years 2000-2012 (data public since 2015). Neither study found an association of air quality with deaths. Yet data from the Six Cities study, which claims an association, is not publicly available. Since the publicly available data casts doubt on previous studies that inform our air pollution regulations, the E.P.A. is entirely justified to propose requiring that the science informing regulations should have analysis data sets that are publicly available, or available to a trusted third party. If the science behind the regulations is any good, public scrutiny will confirm it. If that science doesn’t reproduce, the E.P.A. should know—as should all Americans.
S. Stanley Young
Warren Kindzierski
University of Alberta
Democrats introduce bill for imposing CO2 tax on taxpayers
Here is the summary of the tax package. The bill orders the Treasury Department to figure out how to use EPA greenhouse gas inventory data to impose a CO2 tax on taxpayers.
The bill also extends wind/solar and electric vehicle tax credits.
Deaths from nuclear plant closures in Japan
This study reports that the closure of Japan’s nuclear plans following the Fukushima disaster raised electricity prices by as much as 40% in some areas, resulting in an estimated 1,280 deaths from the effects of cold weather.
Arctic melting to cause catastrophic sea level rise or… an ice age?
The contrasting views of apocalyptics circa 1947 vs. 1960. Useful to keep in mind as you consider today’s apocalyptic Arctic hysteria.
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WINNING: EPA science advisers reject EPA staff particulate matter claims
Here is the draft letter from the EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee concerning the EPA staff’s most recent junk science-based assessment of the health effects of air borne particulate matter. A majority of the CASAC rejected the EPA staff’s claims that PM is scientifically associated with premature mortality and other health effects. In other words, after spending $600 million on PM2.5 research, EPA has nothing.
You can read the October 2019 testimony of JunkScience.com and friends to CASAC here.
Venice flooding is weather, not climate
Worse than this year’s flooding of Venice was the November 1966 event — 90 ppm CO2 ago.
Besides…
Latest EPA science transparency proposal leaked to NYTimes; Key air quality junk science to be banned unless data is made public
Here it is. Please review and send me your thoughts. Supposedly this is what will be sent to the White House for review and approval.
No, there’s no wild bee-pocalypse, either!
Congressman from Gazprom?
California Rep. Jared Huffman seems bent on paying Putin for the fuel needed by US military installations in Europe. Why?
Paris Climate Accord debunked by former IPCC chair
I call it the Paris Climate Hoax. Former IPCC Chair Bob Watson doesn’t use those words but comes to the same conclusion in a new report published by the Universal Ecological Fund, which examines in retail the 184 voluntary pledges under the Paris Agreement.
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No… wind mills and solar panels do NOT pay for themselves in health benefits
The latest from the Chinese Communist Party-owned Harvard T.C. Chan School of Public Health. The claim here is that wind mills and solar panels reduce air pollution from fossil fuel burning and, therefore, reduce deaths and health effects. Then applying bogus economics to monetize statistical lives saved and health effects avoided, wind and solar allegedly pay for themselves. But…
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