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All along we have been saying that these reports are not scientific,
but instead are purely political, documents. That became quite clear in
last week’s congressional hearing testimony by Daniel B. Botkin, who once believed global warming was a terrible problem, but has since taken the opposite position.
Perhaps there is no finer example of the politicization of “science” than what the “Indicators” report the EPA just handed us. ......For those who want a clearer image of the truth when it comes to the
effect of global warming on trends in heat-related mortality across the
United States, see the figure below, taken from a brand new study by
Jennifer Bobb from the Harvard School for Public Health and colleagues.
The graph shows the number of heat-related deaths (for every thousand
overall deaths) that result from the daily temperature being 10°F above
normal, from 1987 to 2005. The trend is strongly downward—in other
words, fewer deaths are associated with heat. .......
Not only is the risk from extreme heat declining, but so too are the actual numbers of people dying from extreme heat both in the United States and abroad (when properly standardized for demographic changes and population growth).
This is opposite from what the EPA chart leads you to believe.
The only way for the EPA to be so out of touch with the prevailing science is to be so on purpose.
We can’t help but to think that purpose will be revealed today."
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