[Stoves] Air pollution and life expectency (previously was (no subject) )

[Paul Anderson]

Stovers,
On 11/30/2017 5:40 AM, Philip Lloyd wrote:
>
> An amusing addition to the “air pollution shortens lives” question:
>
> https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/28/does-air-pollution-really-shorten-life-spans/
>
> Philip Lloyd
>
Quite a long article with graphs and data.  "Amusing" is maybe not the 
right descriptor.   But certainly interesting.

To get to the point, and letting the article's author make it clearly, 
here are the concluding words.:  The last line is the "amusing" one.
>
> So why the discrepancy between claims that PM2.5 (or air pollution 
> more generally) reduces life expectancy, and the reality that life 
> expectancy has actually increased, and continues to increase in some 
> of the most polluted cities of the world despite increases in PM2.5?
>
> A couple of reasons, which are not mutually exclusive, come to mind:
>
>   * The cumulative direct and indirect effects of economic development
>     (and fossil fuel use) on life expectancy not only outweigh the
>     effects of PM2.5, they also enable populations to reduce PM2.5,
>     once more significant health threats are reduced.[8]
>     <https://wattsupwiththat.com/Users/Anthony/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/L168EUMU/#_ftn8_4820>
>   * Life expectancy is based on data on real births and real deaths,
>     whereas the mortality effects of PM2.5 are based on “statistical”
>     deaths or, to use a term currently in vogue, “fake” deaths.[9]
>     <https://wattsupwiththat.com/Users/Anthony/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/L168EUMU/#_ftn9_4820>
>     As Steve Milloy is fond of asking, “Where are the bodies?”[10]
>     <https://wattsupwiththat.com/Users/Anthony/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/L168EUMU/#_ftn10_4820>
>
> In today’s world, claims of air pollution shortening life expectancy 
> are fake news premised on fake deaths.
>

Paul

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On 11/30/2017 5:40 AM, Philip Lloyd wrote:
>
> An amusing addition to the “air pollution shortens lives” question:
>
> https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/28/does-air-pollution-really-shorten-life-spans/
>
> Philip Lloyd
>
>
>
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