Now I can finally relax, take a deep breath, and breathe easier. The Environmental Protection Agency, an aggressive arm of the nanny government, has just issued new air quality standards that mandate that the new “safe” level of ozone in the air we breathe shall be lowered from the current 75 parts per billion to 70 ppb. I feel better already, perhaps.
I also feel better for all the theoretical lives that will be saved, according to EPA sponsored studies such as this one. However, my joy is tempered by the realization that those are not real lives saved – rather, they are “estimated deaths saved,” as in “We applied health impact assessment methodology to estimate numbers of deaths and other adverse health outcomes that would have been avoided during 2005, 2006, and 2007 if the current (or lower) NAAQS ozone standards had been met. Estimated reductions in ozone concentrations were interpolated according to geographic area and year, and concentration–response functions were obtained or derived from the epidemiological literature.”
Thus, the fewer ozone deaths will be taking place in a computer-generated fantasy world, where epidemiological data-torturing takes place by bits and bytes, not in the hospital admission records for real-life patients. The referenced paper concludes: “We estimated that annual numbers of avoided ozone-related premature deaths would have ranged from 1, 410 to 2, 480 at 75 ppb to 2, 450 to 4, 130 at 70 ppb, and 5, 210 to 7, 990 at 60 ppb.
Acute respiratory symptoms would have been reduced by 3 million cases and school-loss days by 1 million cases annually if the current 75-ppb standard had been attained. Substantially greater health benefits would have resulted if the CASAC-recommended range of standards (70–60 ppb) had been met.”
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I think I’m gonna burn a log today as a symbolic “fuck you” to the EPA.
Don’t do it in your kitchen like last time. LOL
We need to get rid of the EPA and groups like it.
I’ll call a cab rather than take public transit!
Got my refrigerant license a few years ago and the first thing in the book was “There is good ozone and bad ozone” and, knowing that ozone is O3, knew that the rest was gonna be total bullshit.
It was.
Ozone is unstable. The EPA needn’t concern themselves.
When it comes to any numbers that leftist lead with I always remember what my grandpa said. “figures don’t lie, but liars figure”. Screw the EPA.
Ozone is the number one killer of imaginary people.
That was a cow pie, not a log.
Well….sort of a log. 😉
Any incremental improvements we make here in this country are about as effective as a fart in a hurricane because just about the rest of the rest of the planet pollutes like it’s goin outta style and we gladly ship our coal to them to be burned without any controls whatsoever! It does ham-string productivity tho, the real goal of the Øbamboozler and his fellow travelers.
Don’t bother telling the Leftys though.
They aren’te able to see the forest for the trees thru their cum-encrusted agenda-driven rose colored goggles!
I think that Nixon’s creation of the EPA wasa greater evil than the cover up of the Watergate break in. It’s a cancer cell that doesn’t know when to stop growing.
AGW is nothing but modern folklore,
the fears of urban society.