Watch Now: Prof. Ross McKitrick on Obama EPA regs: The health claims ‘are groundless’ – ‘Carbon dioxide is not a factor in smog or lung issues’ – Rips Obama for deceptive language: ‘Instead of calling it carbon dioxide, we are just going to call it ‘carbon pollution’
McKitrick on Sun News on June 2, 2014
McKitrick on Climate Models: ‘You still end up with same climate path over next 100 years with or without these [climate] regulations. They love to go to these big conferences and sign big agreements and wave certificates in the air…But the same models that told us we should do this also tell us we did not get any benefits for this. No one has made a convincing case for these kind of policies.’
McKitrick on Air Pollution: The models get 'more deaths from air pollution than you were death from all causes' - ‘Particulates and soot are at such low levels in the U.S. -- levels well below what they were in the 1970s. The health claims at this point are groundless coming from this administration.
I noticed these numbers coming up for Ontario for how many deaths were caused by air pollution. What struck me -- was knowing that air pollution levels were very low in Ontario -- but they were extremely high in 1960s. So I took the same model and fed in the 1960s air pollution levels into it: How many deaths would you get? I did the calculations and you quickly get more deaths from air pollution than you were death from all causes.
In other words, the streets would have been littered with bodies from air pollution if it was actually that lethal. The problem with all of these models is they are not based on an actual examination of death certificates or looking at what people actually died of -- these are just statistical models where people have a spreadsheet and they take in an air pollution level and it pops out a number of deaths. But there are no actual bodies there, it is all just extrapolation.’
