More than 10F warmer.
Continue reading Study: Ancient Greenland was much warmer than previously thought
Negative studies and PM2.5
Courtesy of Stan Young, below is a (growing) list of published papers that report no association between PM2.5 and mortality.
On the need to restrain scientists
In his 1905 veto of what would have been the first and eugenics-aimed compulsory sterilization law in the U.S., Pennsylvania Gov. Samuel Pennypacker stated:
Scientists, like all other men whose experiences have been limited to one pursuit, and whose minds have been developed in a particular direction, sometimes need to be restrained. Men of high scientific attainments are prone, in their love for technique, to lose sight of broad principles outside of their domain of thought.
Read Gov. Pennypacker’s entire statement… Continue reading On the need to restrain scientists
LATimes Evan Halper propagandizes for Big Trucking against the glider truck industry
Here is my line-by-line of Evan Halper’s error-filled report in the Los Angeles Times.
‘Resistance’ games EPA Science Advisory Board meeting
By design, the public comment period at today’s EPA Science Advisory Board meeting will feature only Trump EPA opponents.
Continue reading ‘Resistance’ games EPA Science Advisory Board meeting
Notice of Public Hearing for EPA Science Transparency Rule
If you’re going to be in Washington, DC on July 17, you can make oral comments on the EPA proposal. Click for the Federal Register notice.
Pope fails to find error in Enstrom’s 2017 reanalysis of Pope 1995 PM2.5 study
Arden Pope had 14 months to find an error in Jim Enstrom’s 2017 redo and takedown of Pope’s 1995 study. Despite Pope’s arm-waving no actual error was found.
Here is the paragraph of Enstrom’s response:
Read Enstrom’s entire response published in Dose-Response.
Background/Additional Reading
Winning: Harvard’s Joel Schwartz Drops Laughable Claim That PM2.5 Epidemiological Correlations are ‘Strong’
The letters are finally published for last December’s junk science-powered PM2.5 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. We made huge progress.
From Muller to Mechanism: How the LNT Model Became the Default Model for Cancer Risk Assessment
New from the great Ed Calabrese…. “The present paper reveals Muller did not discover what he claimed…”
Will OMB Director Mulvaney Allow the Swamp to Destroy the Glider Truck Industry via an Obama EPA Rule?
Wait until President Trump finds out about this, Mick.
EPA Extends Comment Period, Announces Public Hearing on Proposed Rule to Strengthen Science Transparency in EPA Regulations
There will be a public hearing in Washington DC on July 17. Comments due by August 17.
New Study: Still no association between PM2.5, ozone and premature death
This is a new PM2/5/ozone analysis from Stan Young et al. It uses a different methodology from last year’s California study on the same California data. Same answer, though. And the data is available from the study authors — something the EPA-funded air pollution mafia refuses to share.
Continue reading New Study: Still no association between PM2.5, ozone and premature death