The Climate Change−Air Quality−Public Health Fallacy
10 hours ago Guest Blogger
Guest post by S. Stanley Young and Warren Kindzierski
We were asked by Heritage Foundation to write two papers on the alleged link between climate change, predicted changes in air quality, and public health effects. Both papers are available on their website. One paper is a discussion of a climate change−fine particulate matter (PM2.5)−public health link (or lack thereof). The second paper is a discussion of how ozone fits (or rather how it fails to fit) into a climate change−ozone−asthma link. A summary of both papers is provided, and an open question is posed to WUWT readers below.
First and foremost… for both PM2.5 and ozone, ALL of the studies we refer to in our two papers are not founded on proven biological plausibility of these factors causing diseases or deaths. They are founded on an assumption of what may be a cause of disease or death—for example, PM2.5 or ozone.
PM2.5
Our first paper examined the two key public health endpoints that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claims result from PM2.5 exposure—nonfatal heart attacks and premature deaths. For both endpoints, we show that health effect studies—observational epidemiology studies—cited by the EPA to support their claims do not take proper accounting of hidden biases, nor do they apply rigorous tests for reproducibility of these studies.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/12/19/the-climate-change%e2%88%92air-quality%e2%88%92public-health-fallacy/
