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5 Things You’re Not Likely to Hear About on Earth Day
President Obama flew down to Florida this Earth Day to give his umpteenth speech on climate change. That means he’ll have added something like 94 metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere on his round-trip 747 flight to decry CO2 emissions.
In any case, as with every Earth Day, the public gets an annual dose of fear and loathing about the environmental dangers facing our planet. Well, here are some inconvenient facts environmentalists aren’t likely to tell anyone. (Keep in mind that all the data come from official government sources.)
1) The air is dramatically cleaner. IBD called this “the EPA’s dirty secret about the environment” — namely, that every type of harmful air pollution it measures is dramatically reduced over the past several decades, to the point where most are at or below the government’s current standards. This decline came amid gains in GDP and increases in population, making them all the more remarkable. And they will continue to fall, even without any new rules, as the economy continues to improve its efficiency.
Source: http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/5-things-you-re-not-likely-to-hear-about-on-earth-day.html
