FRACKING SAVES THE PLANET

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American Spectator:

Obama and the media say nearly every day that fossil fuels are “dirty,” but the latest data show that the air is getting cleaner all the time, and these so-called dastardly fuels emit far less pollution than ever before. Coal, for example, is about 80 to 90% cleaner today to burn than 50 years ago. (See chart.) The amount of sulfur, lead, carbon dioxide, and other real pollutants (carbon dioxide is not a pollutant) is down by 50% or more. How many school kids know this?

 

 

But even carbon emissions are way down. The Department of Energy published data last week with some amazing revelations — so amazing that most Americans will find them hard to believe. The U.S. reduced its carbon emissions by 2 percent from last year. Over the past 14 years our carbon emissions are down more than 10 percent.

 

We’ve reduced our carbon emissions more than virtually any other nation in the world, including most of Europe. How many school children know that?

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White House ‘Fact Sheet’ Says Climate Change Could Kill 27,000 Americans In Summer of 2100

 

(CNSNews.com) – In a “fact sheet” issued by the White House in conjunction with a climate change report made public last week, one of the impacts of increasing temperatures is the deaths of thousands of American people over the course of one summer.

 

“Extreme heat can be expected to cause an increase in the number of premature deaths, from thousands to tens of thousands, each summer, which will outpace projected decreases in deaths from extreme cold,” the fact sheet stated.

 

“One model projected an increase, from a 1990 baseline for more than 200 American cities, of more than an additional 11,000 deaths during the summer in 2030 and more than an additional 27,000 deaths during the summer in 2100,” the fact sheet said.

 

The summary of the climate change report, titled “The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment,” states that climate change is “a significant threat to the American people” and that the findings in the report “represent an improvement in scientific confidence in the link between climate change and a broad range of threats to public health.”

 

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/white-house-fact-sheet-says-climate-change-could-kill-27000-americans