I just received a post that included commentary by the great Morano on how the EPA and the Bamster would like to do an agit prop head fake–make carbon dioxide an air pollutant that causes asthma.

 

In the world of public perceptions is science just a secondary consideration–sure it is–big lies and little lies are what agit prop is about.

Morano makes the argument that the EPA has found asthmatic children such a good hook, they had to conflate carbon dioxide regs with air pollution regs. Gina McCarthy starts spouting numbers about reduced asthma attacks, and heart attacks.

http://mobile.wnd.com/2014/06/global-warming-threat-now-its-asthma/

Well, in fact small particle air pollution doesn’t cause heart attacks or asthma.

Sorry Marc, you can easily back up a couple more steps in your criticism of this crap.

The epidemiology is so bad on small particle air pollution that the EPA had a human exposure project going for the last 20 years hoping to find something that would be good evidence. They admit in sworn statements to the court in Virginia in our lawsuit to stop the human exposure experiments that the small associations they find and have found in premature death populations studies don’t prove anything.

Asthma is increasing in incidence and air pollution is declining dramatically.

Carbon dioxide cannot be an allergen, and it cannot increase pulmonary problems or health problems until it gets to above 10% or 10000 ppm in the ambient or inspired air. It presently sits at 400 ppm, or 0.04%. That’s the air we breath in, the air we breathe out has a carbon dioxide level of 4% or 4000 ppm.

The only way that small particles would be related to asthma is allergens in the air, pollen, and such, and allergenic particles are proteinacious so they stimulate immune reactions. The Immune system is designed to identify molecules that are foreign to the body and set up inflammatory reactions to fight the invasion.

In the case of an allergic reaction, the mast cells are engaged and release histamine that causes itching, rashes, welts (we call urticaria), angioedema (swelling of tissues with fluid released from histamine effects) swelling and inflammation of the airways, causing stridor and wheezing.

The treatment is antihistamines and cortisone type steroids to reduce the release of fluids and inflammatory mediators that cause allergic rashes and swelling and wheezing. Pretty simple, but you can count on the EPA and the lefty greenies to lie and deceive. Amazing they can do such a thing on top of the evidence that Asthma goes up as air pollution goes down. But agit prop is not about telling the truth.

Show a pic of a pretty kid with oxygen on and a stack in the background with steam coming out (portrayed as “smoke”) and watch the mommies put on their matching tee shirts.

Milloy and I have waxed eloquent on the bad air pollution epidemiology at JunkScience and American Thinker

http://junkscience.com/?s=asthma+and+air+pollution

Links to dunn essays

EPA

Jon Samet silliness acsh 2005

Part 1

http://heartland.org/policy-documents/epa-junk-science-air-pollution-deaths

http://junksciencecom.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/epa-junk-science-on-air-pollution.pdf

Part II on legal precedents that allow delegation and discretion.

http://junksciencecom.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/mpre-on-epa-and-air-pollution.pdf

more on the delegation/discretion problem

http://junkscience.com/2014/01/30/dingell-says-scotus-screwed-up/comment-page-1/#comment-201664

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1103332

Harvardresearch claims sm part cause cancer.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/28/us-air-pollution-idUSTRE79R5NM20111028

Subsidies make the energy world go round

http://heartland.org/policy-documents/subsidies-make-energy-world-go-round

2013 EPA project

Holding EPA to account Joe Barton speech

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/03/holding_the_epa_to_account.html

EPA can be stopped

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/03/holding_the_epa_to_account.html

a strategy to stop the epa science abuse

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/04/a_strategy_to_stop_epa_science_abuse.html

the EPAs unreliable science

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/the_epas_unreliable_science.html

epa unethical research

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/epas_unethical_air_pollution_experiments.htm

Milloy and Dunn at JPANDS on EPA Human Experiments

http://www.jpands.org/vol17no4/dunn.pdf

EPW report on Beal Brenner and the playbook

http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=b90f742e-b797-4a82-a0a3-e6848467832a

http://junkscience.com/2013/11/16/epa-hearing-exercise/

http://junksciencecom.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/dunn-on-epa-battle.pdf

http://junksciencecom.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/dunn-let-to-congress-ii-with-att.pdf

http://junksciencecom.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/dunn-let-to-ehp-on-the-study.pdf

http://junksciencecom.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/dunn-let-ii-to-drs-in-congress.pdf

http://junksciencecom.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/dunn-let-to-deans-1.pdf

Legal strategies for EPA problems

http://junksciencecom.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/2nd-and-3rd-epi-highlights-ref-manual.pdf

http://junkscience.com/2013/11/16/epa-hearing-exercise/

http://junkscience.com/2014/02/20/lawyer-losers-who-work-for-our-side-rich-losers-but-still-losers/

http://junkscience.com/2014/02/27/physician-condemns-epa-cargo-cult-science-guess-who/

http://junkscience.com/2014/02/23/daren-jonescu-on-climate-science-totalitarian-thugs-and-hypocrites/

http://junkscience.com/2013/11/16/epa-hearing-exercise/

http://junkscience.com/2014/04/01/epa-medical-schools-complicit-in-unethical-and-immoralillegal-human-experiments/

California enviro policy issues

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/californias_toxic_air_scare_ma.html

toxic air scare

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/science_and_the_toxic_scare_ma_1.html

Milloy Ozone study in CA

http://junkscience.com/2013/09/03/study-ozone-not-linked-with-asthma-hospitalizations-in-major-california-hospital-system/

Milloy study on small particles in CA

http://junkscience.com/2013/12/26/epa-air-pollution-scare-debunked-by-best-data-set-ever-assembled-on-particulate-matter-deaths/

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Asthma is not caused by air pollution. Asthma is an allergic disease.

Take a look at the commentary here at JunkScience and scroll down until you get to Milloy’s report on a multi year study of ozone and asthma in southern CA. No Association.

But before that you get to a Johns Hopkins study that shows that dirty environments for small children desensitizes them and reduces their rate of asthma.

http://junkscience.com/?s=asthma+and+air+pollution

enough for today.