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Sorry, Mr. President, Global Warming Didn't Cause Malia's Asthma
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 03/08/2015 | Staff

Posted on 04/09/2015 4:17:33 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

Hot Air: President Obama says we must tackle global warming because it's already causing asthma rates to climb. But his argument is full of holes. In any case, didn't the U.N. climate chief say we need to depopulate the planet?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: allergies; asthma; globalwarming; malia; obama; obamafamily
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1 posted on 04/09/2015 4:17:33 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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Malia wouldn’t be the first child of a smoker to have asthma...


2 posted on 04/09/2015 4:19:38 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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You’d have to show me the hospital bills for the ‘emergency trip’ and the medical diagnosis before I’d believe that.


3 posted on 04/09/2015 4:20:41 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Which is why Iran needs the bomb...


4 posted on 04/09/2015 4:22:23 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: kearnyirish2

zer0
I would suggest checking the bizarre diet that chewy is presenting to the kids.

And if you want to get asthma from pollution go visit your Buds in Red China where they burn coal for everything without scrubbers and the air is unbreathable


5 posted on 04/09/2015 4:23:35 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: IBD editorial writer
Asthma is real

It's also a hustle that sells nebulizers and albuterol

6 posted on 04/09/2015 4:24:28 AM PDT by knarf
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To: IBD editorial writer

According to the article, the argument from the eco tyrants is that GW leads to fires, which leads to more particulates, which leads to asthma.

The counter in the article is that EPA reports particulates going down, probably due to air qual controls.

So, maybe asthma rates go up due to the cleaner air. This could work in much the same way that cleaner water in the early 1900s led to polio.

It was discovered that early exposure to water w/higher levels of contaminants built the immune systems of children. When they cleaned up the water, the immune systems were not as strong and kids were more susceptible to certain bacteria, namely that causing polio.

So maybe the clean air is having the same type of effect.


7 posted on 04/09/2015 4:28:27 AM PDT by fruser1
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Malia wouldn’t be the first child of a smoker to have asthma...

BINGO !!!

8 posted on 04/09/2015 4:29:07 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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...didn’t the U.N. climate chief say we need to depopulate the planet?...

This is a point of view is closely held by many Marxist/Progressives/Democrats/Planned Parenthood types.

They should all collectively (they love collectivism) lead by example and off themselves


9 posted on 04/09/2015 4:38:25 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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She’s probably just allergic to Wookie dander.


10 posted on 04/09/2015 4:39:33 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (When did the 2nd amendment suddenly require a license or permit for a gun?)
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To: IBD editorial writer

It was from second hand smoke from tobacco and weed and maybe a hookah pipe.


11 posted on 04/09/2015 4:40:44 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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True, asthma rates have been climbing. But the cause can't be a global warming-induced increase in smog, because smog levels in the U.S. have dropped 33% since 1980, according to the EPA.

I grew up in the 1960s and 70s in a town with smoke stacks and foundries.

Spent my summers on farms with cow flatulence manure and gasoline burning farm machinery.

Breathed leaded gas car exhaust while living next to a busy highway.

Painted barns with lead based paint.

Growing up in this much more polluted world, throughout my childhood and teens I do not know of one of my classmates or cousins that had asthma.

12 posted on 04/09/2015 4:43:45 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: fruser1

Maybe, except polio is caused by a virus.


13 posted on 04/09/2015 4:46:13 AM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet into FlixNet)
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Yes, but asthma is an immunological response. It can be triggered by both irritants and organisms.


14 posted on 04/09/2015 5:04:11 AM PDT by fruser1
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2nd hand smoke form o’s cigsand mochelle’s farts did it


15 posted on 04/09/2015 5:09:50 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: Gaffer

Exactly! I don’t believe this story!

Let me tell you about a true event. At 18 months my middle child suddenly developed severe asthma. There were multiple hospital stays and even one life flight. Thank God that at around two and a half the asthma disappeared as quickly as it had come. It was the year from hell. At the tail end of that experience, we received a letter from our insurance company (private through my employer, not obamacare) that due to the ACA our daughter’s asthma preventer was subject to “quantity limitations.” Yep. My two-year-old was death paneled.


16 posted on 04/09/2015 5:36:35 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: BuffaloJack
She’s probably just allergic to Wookie dander.

Post of the week !
17 posted on 04/09/2015 5:58:10 AM PDT by khelus
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To: IBD editorial writer

The oldest fallacy - “Post hoc ergo propter hoc” This fallacy points to his livel of competence.


18 posted on 04/09/2015 5:59:00 AM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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To: All
Asthma attacks are caused by innocuous substances---like house dust, and invisible "dust mites" which are everywhere, found in cotton apparel.

Common foods like dairy products...especially eggs and poultry...also trigger asthma.

Little kids are given lots of cow's milk....should be checked as a possible cause for attacks.

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As for adult asthma----Robert Donat--Academy Award actor---had to quit acting b/c of severe asthma. One doctor diagnosed his problem as 90% psychosomatic.

19 posted on 04/09/2015 6:03:23 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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Climate change, “...beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.”

O. Henry Porter


20 posted on 04/09/2015 6:03:34 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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