The American Lung
Association's "2019
State of the Air Report"
is a disgrace !
The goal of the report was not
real science, or lung health.
The goal was getting the
attention of the leftist-biased
mainstream media, which will
publish anything negative about
"climate change", without one
minute of fact checking,
plus virtue signaling,
by demonizing CO2,
and global warming.
I recently wrote an article
on indoor air pollution, which
is MUCH more important
for Americans than outdoor
air pollution.
Here's why, from that article:
"After the 1983 Clean Air Act,
and creation of the EPA in 1970,
( Environmental Protection Agency )
the chemicals in outdoor air
became federally regulated,
with penalties for polluters.
These days, a “very unhealthy”
designation for outdoor air is rare.
Emissions of many harmful gases,
such as carbon monoxide,
and sulfur dioxide, have fallen
by about 50% since the 1970s.
Outdoor particulate matter counts
fell by about 80% since the 1970s.
That's great, but in the U.S.
we spend, on average,
90% to 95% of our lives indoors.
(Note: I forgot to mention
in the article that I rounded
the high 80's percentage to "90%",
and 95% counts being inside cars,
as being indoors )
(Note: I forgot to mention
in the article that I rounded
the high 80's percentage to "90%",
and 95% counts being inside cars,
as being indoors )
Recent data, from the U.K.,
shows Britons are outside
for just 5% of the day, on average,
— just one hour and twelve minutes. "
In that article I mentioned
an indoor test measuring
particulate matter
during the cooking of
a Thanksgiving dinner
inside a test house:
The final hour of
cooking produced
24% more particulate
matter than there is
in the outdoor air,
during the dirtier
winter months, of the
world's MOST polluted
large city, New Delhi, India,
( New Delhi data from WHO ) !
A Lung Association report ignoring
indoor air pollution, is ignoring
a large majority of the air pollution
affecting American lungs.
The American Lung Association
Report completely ignore the fact
that global warming,
between 1998 and 2018,
was statistically insignificant,
using global data from the UAH
weather satellite compilation.
The US temperature record,
using the NOAA network
of rural thermometers, USCRN,
which are NOT affected
by nearby economic growth,
shows no relationship
with global temperatures:
The claimed link between GLOBAL
temperature measurements,
and U.S. high ozone days,
is not justified.
The U.S. has significantly reduced its CO2
emissions, since its peak year of 2007,
through increased use of natural gas:
The U.S. is leading the world
in reducing CO2 emissions,
and coal particulate emissions,
while lowering energy costs too,
by replacing coal with higher
efficiency, lower cost, natural gas.
Yet the 2019 Report
claims there is
increasing US coal
particulate matter ,
and CO2 emissions,
which is either
bad science,
using data mining
or deliberate lies.
The 2019 Report claims US actions
to further reduce its CO2 emissions
will lower GLOBAL warming.
But US emissions of CO2
stopped growing in 2007.
They may fluctuate a little
from year to year, as GDP
growth gets a little stronger,
such as in 2018, or a little weaker,
but the trend since 2007 is flat.
That means US CO2 emissions
since 2007, on average, have NOT
added to the GLOBAL growth
of CO2 emissions, which are
primarily from emissions growth
in developing nations, such as
India and China !
The American Lung Association's
2019 State of the Air Report
is politically driven
climate alarmism,
climate alarmism,
not based on real science.
Politics trumps real science again.
And that's why this blog exists !