Senator Big Coal from Kentucky defends air pollution

[paulitician]

Go get em Rand!

 

[Flopper]

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a startling claim: Air pollution has no connection to asthma, Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul said on the Senate floor.

But Paul, and a chart he used to make his case against the health benefits of a new federal air pollution rule, relied on some creative sourcing and pseudoscience.

Paul's chart was a graph showing air pollution declining in California as the number of people diagnosed with asthma rose. The chart attributed the data to a May 2003 paper by what was then called the California Department of Health Services. But the department never plotted the relationship between those two factors.

In fact, the department said asthma attacks "can be triggered by exposures and conditions such as respiratory infections, house dust mites, animal dander, mold, pollen, exercise, tobacco smoke, and indoor and outdoor air pollutants."

Paul's real source was a 2006 paper "Facts Not Fear on Air Pollution" from the National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative think tank.

The Associated Press: FACT CHECK: GOP senator gasps for facts on asthma

Oh yes, we should all listen to Ron Paul, not the AMA, or the American Lunch Association, CMA, CDC, or dozens of research studies that have shown the links between lung diseases and air pollution.

 

[Wiseacre]

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a startling claim: Air pollution has no connection to asthma, Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul said on the Senate floor.

But Paul, and a chart he used to make his case against the health benefits of a new federal air pollution rule, relied on some creative sourcing and pseudoscience.

Paul's chart was a graph showing air pollution declining in California as the number of people diagnosed with asthma rose. The chart attributed the data to a May 2003 paper by what was then called the California Department of Health Services. But the department never plotted the relationship between those two factors.

In fact, the department said asthma attacks "can be triggered by exposures and conditions such as respiratory infections, house dust mites, animal dander, mold, pollen, exercise, tobacco smoke, and indoor and outdoor air pollutants."

Paul's real source was a 2006 paper "Facts Not Fear on Air Pollution" from the National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative think tank.

The Associated Press: FACT CHECK: GOP senator gasps for facts on asthma

Oh yes, we should all listen to Ron Paul, not the AMA, or the American Lunch Association, CMA, CDC, or dozens of research studies that have shown the links between lung diseases and air pollution.

Bet the people in Kentucky are listening to Paul.

 

[BOBO]

Nuke plants are 100% enviro friendly, afford the nation with sustainable power & offers the lowest cost per kilowatt hour.

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a startling claim: Air pollution has no connection to asthma, Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul said on the Senate floor.

But Paul, and a chart he used to make his case against the health benefits of a new federal air pollution rule, relied on some creative sourcing and pseudoscience.

Paul's chart was a graph showing air pollution declining in California as the number of people diagnosed with asthma rose. The chart attributed the data to a May 2003 paper by what was then called the California Department of Health Services. But the department never plotted the relationship between those two factors.

In fact, the department said asthma attacks "can be triggered by exposures and conditions such as respiratory infections, house dust mites, animal dander, mold, pollen, exercise, tobacco smoke, and indoor and outdoor air pollutants."

Paul's real source was a 2006 paper "Facts Not Fear on Air Pollution" from the National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative think tank.

The Associated Press: FACT CHECK: GOP senator gasps for facts on asthma

 

[bripat9643]

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a startling claim: Air pollution has no connection to asthma, Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul said on the Senate floor.

But Paul, and a chart he used to make his case against the health benefits of a new federal air pollution rule, relied on some creative sourcing and pseudoscience.

Paul's chart was a graph showing air pollution declining in California as the number of people diagnosed with asthma rose. The chart attributed the data to a May 2003 paper by what was then called the California Department of Health Services. But the department never plotted the relationship between those two factors.

In fact, the department said asthma attacks "can be triggered by exposures and conditions such as respiratory infections, house dust mites, animal dander, mold, pollen, exercise, tobacco smoke, and indoor and outdoor air pollutants."

Paul's real source was a 2006 paper "Facts Not Fear on Air Pollution" from the National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative think tank.

The Associated Press: FACT CHECK: GOP senator gasps for facts on asthma

You really are a gullible turd.

The department may never have "plotted" the data, but that doesn't mean it didn't gather the data. No matter what the department says, the numbers it published showed no statistical correlation between air pollution and asthma, so its claims are bogus. They are nothing more than petulant foot stamping that ignores the data. Furthermore, the claim "can be triggered by outdoor pollution" doesn't equate to "actually is triggered by the amount of outdoor pollution that actually exists."

 

[bripat9643]

Paul received $111,000 in campaign contributions from the coal companies.

How much did Obama recieve from environment groups and so-called "alternative energy" suppliers?

 

[bripat9643]

Virtually all cases of black lung occur in miners who smoke. It's really cigarettes that kill the miners, not working in a coal mine.

"Sharp spike," my ass. There is a slight uptrend after masive decreases for decades:

Sen. Rand Paul questioned the need Thursday for new federal new coal-mining rules to reduce black-lung disease, despite federal figures showing the illness has been on the rise in recent years, killing about 1,500 miners annually.

The Kentucky Republican, a frequent critic of government regulations, said during a Senate hearing that black-lung rates had dropped dramatically since 1969, when a law to combat the illness took effect.

“Every regulation doesn’t save lives,” Paul said at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. “There is a point or a balancing act between when a regulation becomes burdensome and our energy production is stifled. We have to assess the cost.”

Paul said during the hearing that the government had done “a pretty good job” in recent decades of reducing the incidence of black lung — an often incurable and fatal disease caused by breathing years of coal dust.

But figures from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health show a spike in black lung rates in recent years.

Black lung kills approximately 1000 miners per year, and the number of cases have doubled since 1995, when the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act was repealed. According to the paper, Paul received $136,277 in campaign contributions from mining interests during his senate run.

Rand Paul: Preventing Black Lung Too “Burdensome” To Energy Companies | Care2 Causes

 

[bripat9643]

Oh yes, we should all listen to Ron Paul, not the AMA, or the American Lunch Association, CMA, CDC, or dozens of research studies that have shown the links between lung diseases and air pollution.

Yes you should. All those groups are paid propaganda organs. The American Lung Association recieved $20 million from the EPA. The CDC is an arm of the government.

 

[Flopper]

Virtually all cases of black lung occur in miners who smoke. It's really cigarettes that kill the miners, not working in a coal mine.

"Sharp spike," my ass. There is a slight uptrend after masive decreases for decades:

Sen. Rand Paul questioned the need Thursday for new federal new coal-mining rules to reduce black-lung disease, despite federal figures showing the illness has been on the rise in recent years, killing about 1,500 miners annually.

The Kentucky Republican, a frequent critic of government regulations, said during a Senate hearing that black-lung rates had dropped dramatically since 1969, when a law to combat the illness took effect.

“Every regulation doesn’t save lives,” Paul said at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. “There is a point or a balancing act between when a regulation becomes burdensome and our energy production is stifled. We have to assess the cost.”

Paul said during the hearing that the government had done “a pretty good job” in recent decades of reducing the incidence of black lung — an often incurable and fatal disease caused by breathing years of coal dust.

But figures from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health show a spike in black lung rates in recent years.

Black lung kills approximately 1000 miners per year, and the number of cases have doubled since 1995, when the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act was repealed. According to the paper, Paul received $136,277 in campaign contributions from mining interests during his senate run.

Rand Paul: Preventing Black Lung Too “Burdensome” To Energy Companies | Care2 Causes

Deaths from CWP have decreased every year from 1995 to 2004 due primary to implementation of CDC recommended screening. More cases are being reported because more are being diagnosed.

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2008-143/pdfs/2008-143.pdf

 

[Katzndogz]

The only question is: How long would it take Progressives to turn us into North Korea?

Good point since that's evidently what the intention is. Maybe two weeks.

 

[Claudette]

i'm stunned.

next you'll tell me obama took money from wall st.

i declare i may faint dead away.

Wonder if Barry hung onto any of his Wall St. bucks from 2008??

Think he's gonna need it because the spigot from Wall St to Barry boy is gonna be mighty dry in 2012.

AT least thats what I've been reading.