Posted on 11/18/2014 3:03:25 PM PST by thetallguy24
There’s a debate raging on the Senate Floor right now over the Keystone XL Pipeline, and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D – CA) is lamenting how dirty the air is where the pipeline will end, Port Arthur, TX. Specifically, she is using a photo of a playground in the Texas city located near oil refineries showing dark plumes of smoke pouring into the sky and an entirely overcast sky. She claims the air will become even worse if the pipeline is approved.
I’ve done graphic design for many years now and can tell when something is most likely Photoshopped. This is one of these occasions. The picture above that she is using has several inconsistencies. First, while the plumes are black and the sky is completely overcast, the ground is bright with dark shadows as if it is a sunny day. Second, the grey clouds seem unnaturally smooth and flat, looking like the Photoshop user painted over it in a rush like airbrushing. Finally, look at the pictures of the parks in the pictures below in Port Arthur near those same refineries. Clear skies and bright sunny days are seen even when the refineries are shown running in the background.
Barbara Boxer also claims that the pipeline will increase asthma and other medical issues in Port Arthur. It’s claimed that asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease rates are higher in Jefferson County, where Port Arthur is located, than the rest of Texas, but Port Arthur is also one of the most impoverished cities. Statewide median household income in 2012 was $51,563, but in Port Arthur it’s much, much lower at only $33,456. Nearly a quarter of the households have an income of less than $15,000. So, while Sen. Boxer seems to think air quality is the reason why there are so many medical issues, a bigger and more apparent factor could be the community’s poverty. Even the mayor of Port Arthur supports the Keystone pipeline as a way to increase employment and reduce poverty.
In the end, it appears Boxer is using dishonest tactics to benefit her agenda, especially since even Harry Reid thinks it’s very likely the bill allowing the Keystone pipeline will pass.
Hilton Kelley, enviro-nazi activist.
Even the EPA doesn’t think the air quality in Port Arthur is particularly bad. In fact it says “Overall, the air quality is in good condition.”
http://www.epa.gov/region6/6dra/oejta/ej/environmental%20profile/profileair.html
Ahem!! Well Hell Yes these are my real arms, legs too - ya dont think Sen. Barby would lie wouldya? Would Ya?
Not the first time steam plumes have been turned into “smoke.” She must think we’re as stupid as she actually is. Stupid AND dishonest.
TC
The republicans need to counter this with real pics and say “here they go again, lying to the public like they did on Obamacare...” and hit them with that everyday!
Even the mayor of Port Arthur wrote a letter of support for the pipeline.
Barbara Boxer is Dumber than a Box of Barbara Boxers.
Anvils, Hammers and Rocks laugh at her behind her back.
Yeah, that’s him.
The photographer, Hilton Kelley, lives in Port Arthur and is a professional environmental activist photographer . . . of Port Arthur's refineries and waste disposal industries.
He recently won a $150,000 environmental photography prize. Those kinds of things allow you to sit around all year (or for years) waiting for the single most dramatic photograph no matter how much of an outlier it is.
Maybe it was taken right when the fog was lifting lol
So, he has plenty of files to play-around with to get just right EFFECT.
LOL
Too funny, with so many people today having Photoshop at their finger tips (like me), it is easy to spot an altered photo. Long before computers and Adobe, I did real airbrushing with an air tool.
Looks like our resident watermelon might have a “voice” in the Senate...or is it providing Box o’ rocks the propaganda against coal and oil?
Because as far as your spurious claims about “particulate deaths” are concerned, this is the same m.o....just make it up.
Good catch.
Wouldn't surprise me if our watermelon propaganda tool actually WAS Babs Boxhead.
Did the ancient old goat Boxer get really confused and thinks that she is a $inator for Texas?
Hey Babs, you are the ancient citizen $inator for California, and you need to return to your home for disturbed seniors.
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