A Scam Op-ed?

Vincent J. Curtis

29 Sept 22

RE: We’re running out of time on GHG emissions Op-ed by Kim Perrotta and Ronald MacFarlane.  Perrotta is an environmental health specialist and editor and co-author of the 240 page Climate Change Tool Kit for Health Professionals.  MacFarlane is an environmental health expert and advisor.  The Hamilton Spectator 29 Sept 22..

It’s hard to tell if this op-ed on GHG is on the level, or not.  It says, “A recent review of the literature found that 25 out of 29 studies linked adverse health outcome, such as adverse birth outcomes, to the fracking of oil and gas.” Another incredible boner is “15,500 premature deaths per year in Canada” are caused by “air pollution.” Smells like a scam paper.

You can drive a truck through the holes in these absurdities.  They’re so unscientific the serious person can’t take them seriously.  Twenty years ago the OMA declared that 1,500 “premature” deaths per year were caused in Ontario by the operation of coal-fired power plants.  When I called attention the sleaziness of the term “premature” and demanded the OMA to produce the death certificates, the OMA responded with tap-dancing: a death certificate wouldn’t show air pollution as the cause of premature death, they explained.  Now, it’s 15,500 across all Canada, despite lower pollution levels!  (In other words, “premature is in the eye of the beholder, and the numbers are the product of some model whose results can’t be checked against real data.)

The linking of adverse birth outcome to fracking is outlandish on its face.  So, fracking in Pennsylvania causes health problems in Hamilton?  25 out of 29 studies agree!  (Is a live birth an “adverse birth outcome”?)

Climate crazies have been saying that we have no time to discuss it since the 1990s, and our two alleged experts say it again.  “We have only eight years!”  They ignore India and China, again, and imply that Canada can do it alone.

It’s a scam, intentional or not.

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