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Pollution killing 21,000 Canadians this year: report
AFP ^ | Aug 14

Posted on 08/14/2008 6:13:34 AM PDT by Devilinbaggypants

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To: Devilinbaggypants
Air pollution this year will kill more than 20,000 Canadians, the Canadian Medical Association said Wednesday in a report.

with or without 'help' from the Canadian 'free' health care?

21 posted on 08/14/2008 7:35:00 AM PDT by RightWingTeen (Caution: homeschooled teen with a Brain that works - LIBERALS you can't control me!!)
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To: Devilinbaggypants

My research indicates the number of Canadians killed by air pollution is 560,000,897,000,321.


22 posted on 08/14/2008 7:35:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s true, folks are measuring contaminents in the air, go ahead and laugh about it. Where do you think that smog from China goes, we’re talking very dangerous heavy metals here.


23 posted on 08/14/2008 7:37:17 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: Devilinbaggypants

Ridiculous! They should share a border with Mexico, then they would know what real pollution is.


24 posted on 08/14/2008 7:43:20 AM PDT by pepperdog (The world has gone crazy.)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG
Thank goodness it’s only Canadians.

LOL!

Almost had soda coming out my nose...

25 posted on 08/14/2008 7:45:13 AM PDT by TChris (Vote John McCain: Democrat Lite -- 3% less liberal than a regular Democrat!)
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To: RightWingTeen

“...with or without ‘help’ from the Canadian ‘free’ health care?”

Maybe the Canadian Medical Association can issue an addendum to the report detailing the number of deaths this year will be due to bureaucratic delays in treatment or just plain incompetence in that cluster[XXXX] they style as healthcare.

...just to give us Yanks a preview of what’s in store down here.


26 posted on 08/14/2008 8:02:59 AM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Dims best pray for Global Warming; "October Surprise" is the September heating bill.)
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To: Devilinbaggypants

There is absolutely no way to prove such statements; the fact that they have the imprimatur of a major health agency only serves to illustrate the degree that such distortions of science have deteriorated.

The overall mortality rate is still falling in all of North America and the air is measurably cleaner than it has ever been yet these doomsayers are never satisfied and will not be even if the air could be made pure as laboratory gas.

This all stems from the ridiculous notion that there is such a thing as premature death which would require a setpoint for timely death; something too far for government’s reach short of intervention on the wrong end of the scale.

The report in question here is obviously being made public as a prelude to voiced calls for more industrial controls of U.S. facilities as a focus of blame.

Such a spectacle - science sluts in short skirts sashaying down the street in search of spare change.


27 posted on 08/14/2008 8:28:47 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: gracesdad

There is an automatic tendency to accept that as ‘common sense’ yet there is not a shred of documented evidence outside of heavily polluted work environments and extreme weather-related events leading to trapped recycled air.

If you were confined to a room where the air was maintained at 21% oxygen but had a system to remove all CO2 even as you breathed about in it, your respiration rate would go haywire; ill effects suspected to be causes of disease from air pollution are nearly impossible to indict and are assumed to be from long-term exposure.

Investigators are supposed to interrogate the evidence, not torture it.


28 posted on 08/14/2008 8:35:59 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: gracesdad

Where is Mike Phelps hiding his air tank?


29 posted on 08/14/2008 8:37:40 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Devilinbaggypants
I wouldn't worry, immigration from Mooselimb countries will more than make up for for the people lost to pollution.
30 posted on 08/14/2008 8:38:37 AM PDT by HenpeckedCon (Deport them all... Let God sort them out!)
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“Where is Mike Phelps hiding his air tank?”

Everybody there is breathing the same air. Wouldn’t be surprised if he has an air purifier in his room. I would.


31 posted on 08/14/2008 8:51:19 AM PDT by gracesdad
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Air “purifiers” can’t remove sub-micron particulate matter; despite the cries for abatement, there is a practical limit on controls.

There is a growing focus on these smallest particles and their ability to be breathed deeply into the lungs where they remain and collect, yet current removal technology has not caught up with detection methodolgy.


32 posted on 08/14/2008 9:04:39 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Devilinbaggypants

They are claiming that about 10% of the total number of deaths in Canada are directly traceable to pollution.

The report is clearly junk science.

Here is a link to a more complete article with a few more details and some harder questions.

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/477901


33 posted on 08/14/2008 9:19:06 AM PDT by MediaMole
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To: Devilinbaggypants
Wait until this winter when all of those miracle, outdoor, wood burning, stoves are all stoked up this winter in an effort to cut greenhouse gasses. Imagine the particulates in the air....
34 posted on 08/14/2008 10:40:20 AM PDT by lucky american (We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails)
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