SCIENCE!
Obama timed his announcement to the most recent USGCRP draft assessment on climate change and public health (which is still open to public comment, if any of “comment activists” want to take their skepticism somewhere productive). While it’s not final, the report shows how these connections get made. It starts with epidemiologists identifying a new disease trend—say, asthma cases on the rise. An environmental health specialist might also notice that air quality has been getting worse, and testing shows it’s from an increase in particulate matter, such as soot.
Why Obama Said Global Warming Gave His Daughter Asthma | WIRED
On the other hand, one might note that the trend of journalists making up completely fake statistics and garbage logic to support politically motivated junk science, has skyrocketed.
Meanwhile, climatologists have been tracking a rise in local temperatures, and noticing more wild fires. Eventually, the various lines of research meet: Warmer air temps correlate with higher particulate matter. Higher particulate matter causes more cases of asthma.
Malia was born in Chicago in 1998. US forest fire counts have declined about one third since she was born.
National Interagency Fire Center
US air quality is much better than it was when her father was born in the 1960’s. The amount of particulate matter in the air is vastly reduced since the Clean Air Act was passed. The pictures below compare LA in the 1960’s vs. now.
It is much more likely that Malia’s peanut allergy induced asthma, was aggravated by her father pumping smoke into the air.
Temperatures in Illinois have plummeted over the past 80 years.
Temperatures in Illinois have plummeted since Malia was born.
“But we don’t have time to dither, or do the traditional Washington thing of kicking the can down the road. And I don’t think anyone is going to see any big breakthroughs when there’s a climate denier running the senate committee that controls funding for science and the environment.” (That’s James Inhofe of Oklahoma, newly installed head of Science and Public Works.) Ganapathy says that if the president were truly committed to reducing carbon (and thereby improving public health), he’d do something more dramatic, and fully within his powers. Like, for example, he could stop renewing the leases for fossil fuel drilling on public land and offshore—no family health issue invocation required.
There you have it. Experts believe that Malia’s likely peanut allergy induced asthma, which was likely aggravated by her father’s second hand smoke – can be stopped by shutting down US oil, and purchasing it from the Middle East instead.
Who could possibly argue with such brilliant logic?
