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Making up Science to further the Agenda

John Kerry asked "What does it mean when twenty five percent of the children in Harlem have asthma because of air pollution?" He is trying to tie in air pollution with the epidemic of asthma in Harlem. By doing this he implys the evil Repubublicans are making our black children sick. What John Kerry fails to mention is that as the Asthma rates have gone up while the pollution has decreased.
Michelle Malkin believes Teresa is behind this.

From John Kerry's convention speech: "What does it mean when twenty five percent of the children in Harlem have asthma because of air pollution?"

Answer: It means Kerry is peddling junk science at the behest of his meddling wife. As science journalist Mike Fumento has noted,

Since 1970, the total national emissions of the six principal pollutants the Environmental Protection Agency tracks have been cut 48 percent, even as energy consumption increased 42 percent and the population increased 38 percent.
[Particulate matter] emissions have only been tracked since 1993, but by 2002 had fallen 17 percent. In terms of air quality, they have only been measured since 1998 but by 2003 had dropped eight percent...even as dirty air levels plummeted, asthma incidence from 1980 to 1999 increased by 83 percent according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The scare-mongering about asthma in Harlem comes straight from Teresa's playbook. She recently gave environmental activist Peggy Shepard, who has made a name for herself hyping the asthma epidemic, the $250,000 Heinz Award for her "brave voice" and "courageous advocacy" against "environmental racism."

posted by Liberty @ 2:59 PM