State of the Scare

Reposted as history. Originally posted in May of 2005.

By Joel Schwartz - May 3rd, 2005 - Tech Central Station

Recent air quality improvements are extraordinary. Days exceeding EPA's tough new 8-hour ozone standard dropped more than 50 percent nationwide between 2003 and 2004, even though 2003 was itself a record [low] year. Forty-four percent of ozone monitoring locations violated the standard as of the end of 2003, but only 31 percent as of the end of 2004. Both are huge improvements over the 1970s, when 80 percent of monitors violated the 8-hour standard.

This is an excellent article that goes through some fairly complex technical issues in a way that allows the non technical to follow them. What is happening is that air quality has improved dramatically over the last 35 years, but environmentalists who have an extreme agenda refuse to acknowledge the improvement. They continue their "chicken little" insistence that "the sky is falling" even as all evidence shows air quality is dramatically better. They are simply trying to scare the general public with interpretations of data that are essentially lying.

One irony is a study by the enviro-extremists intended to show how "bad" things are, included data from the California Air Resources board that showed asthma incidence was 30 percent lower in areas with the highest ozone levels. With such evidence that contradicts their conclusions you cannot give credence to any of their conclusions.

One paragraph in the article proving the success of the constant barrage of enviro-extremist propaganda is depressing.

Polls continue to show that most Americans believe air pollution has stayed the same or worsened over the last decade, will worsen in the future, and is a widespread and serious threat to health even at current, historically low levels. All of these beliefs are false.

I will repeat that final conclusion, ALL OF THESE BELIEFS ARE FALSE. None of the data proving how much things are improving is EVER published in the Main Stream Media. However any hysterical report claiming that "the sky is falling" will receive front page news all over America.

You have to wonder why!