Does a new study link “pollution” with cancer — or the just junkiest of statistics with opponents of EPA budget cuts?
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Claim: Controlling ‘short-lived climate pollutants’ (like soot) would save millions of lives
No… controlling soot (i.e., PM2.5) won’t “keep millions of people from dying.”
Claim: Global warming pause ‘does not change our understanding of the influence of human activity on long-term warming’
Of course… it means nothing that even the manipulated temperature data declined while greenhouse gas levels increased substantially — and that it took an El Nino to reverse the downward trend. Why learn from observations? At least they admit there was a pause.
EPA petitioned to reconsider greenhouse gas endangerment finding
Just filed by the Texas Public Policy Foundation on behalf of California trucking, construction and oil groups.
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Leaked: State Department memo on withdrawing from Paris climate agreement
The State Department wants to stay in Paris.
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No NYTimes, Arctic ice is not ‘vanishing’
Here’s the fake news headline:
Here’s the reality:
Claim: Keeping cool in the summer leads to increased air pollution
The war on air conditioning continues.
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Oops… Antarctic Peninsula ice more stable than thought
“The new Leeds led research calls into question a recent study from the University of Bristol that reported 45 cubic kilometres per year increase in ice loss from the sector.”
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Maybe It’s Time to Review the EPA’s Endangerment Finding
My letter in today’s Wall Street Journal responding to the recent misguided WSJ editorial calling for the Trump administration to ignore the Obama EPA’s finding that CO2 endangers the public welfare.
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Claim: Extreme weather can be blamed on climate via statistics
Here is a photo of statisticians attributing weather events to CO2 and/or climate change.
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Report: Shots fired at University of Alabama laboratory of climate skeptics
As reported by University of Alabama-Huntsville scientist, Roy Spencer:
FYI, apparently sometime after a March for Science went past our building at UAH, 7 shots were fired and hit the floor John Christy is on. (I’m in a different part of the same building). No witnesses. I’m assuming late night Saturday or Sunday.
It seems pretty obvious this was a message being sent. If fired from a pistol, all shots hitting the same floor seems to suggest deliberate aim…
I doubt any media have covered it yet. I doubt the police have even written a report yet. From what I’ve heard, it sounds like the police believe the shots were fired from a passing car, and some shell casings were recovered, as well as fragments of bullets inside the building.
It’s covered now.
EPA sabotaging Trump effort to save coal?
No doubt it’s the Obama holdovers who still run the agency on a day-to-day basis.
This clip is from a brief filed in March 22, 2017 by the (supposedly) Trump EPA in litigation over the major war-on-coal EPA rule known as the Mercury Air Transport Standard (MATS).
As you can see, the Obama holdovers in the Trump EPA are telling the court that the rule will save 11,000 lives per year — all by reducing PM
Below is the background story on all this from Greenwire.
Readers of this page and “Scare Pollution” know the saving-11,000-lives claim is utterly false. the real number is ZERO.
As per the Greenwire story, EPA filed a motion this week stating the March 22 brief may not actually be its position. What the EPA is referring to as “not being its position” is unclear — i.e., it may or may not not include the saving-11,000-lives claim.
Here’s where the rubber hits the road, though.
The legal merits of coal industry arguments aside, I’m not sure how anyone can reasonably expect D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Democrats (or even Republicans) to rule in their favor if they think the EPA MATS rule is saving 11,000 lives per year.
If the PM2.5-kills myth is allowed to continue and is indeed promoted by the Trump EPA, the rollback of the Obama war on coal will only last as long as pro-coal Republicans control the White House and are not forced by SCOTUS to continue the war on coal. Ever-wobbly and environmentally under-informed Justice Anthony Kennedy may indeed believe that coal kills. If he does he will be the 5-4 vote forcing/allowing EPA to destroy coal.