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'WASHINGTON — The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency on
Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas "emissions from
fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air
pollution.''
The
Associated Press asked 30 different scientists, experts in climate,
health and economics, about the scientific reality behind this proposal.
Nineteen of them responded, all saying that the proposal was scientifically
wrong and many of them called it disinformation. Here's what eight of them
said.
“This is the scientific equivalent to saying that smoking doesn’t cause lung
cancer,” said climate scientist Zeke Hausfather of the tech firm Stripe and the
temperature monitoring group Berkeley Earth. “The relationship between CO₂
emissions and global temperatures has been well established since the late
1800s, and coal burning is the single biggest driver of global CO₂ emissions,
followed by oil and gas. It is utterly nonsensical to say that carbon emissions
from power plants do not contribute significantly to climate change.”
"It’s about as valid as saying that arsenic is not a dangerous substance to
consume," said University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann.
"The world is round, the sun rises in the east, coal-and gas-fired power plants
contribute significantly to climate change, and climate change increases the
risk of heat waves, catastrophic storms, infectious diseases, and many other
health threats. These are indisputable facts," said Dr. Howard Frumkin, former
director of the National Center for Environmental Health and a retired public
health professor at the University of Washington.'
Via Joyce Donahue, who wrote "Yep, the earth is flat and the moon is really
made of green cheese… lies about power plant emissions and pollution are being
pushed by the Trump EPA - because fossil fuel profits are untouchable."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
