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.
She needs a thorazine suppository.
She’d love it.
What a disgrace.
Nothing like a dark stormy sky to enhance the image.
What crap.
Mrs Bomb Magnet refuses to go away!...
been there done that yes. The first photo I ever used in an ad...I shot it...I was the hand model holding the product...I retouched the photo..and composited the entire thing.
It ran in wine industry mags for over 24 years.
oh yes..... the type ....cost me over a hundred bucks
those were the days!
And you likely waited several days to get it too! Used to do Carl's Jr. ads in the 1970s, we'd shoot photos of a hamburger sprayed with clear lacquer and fake cheese then airbrush the heck out the photo to make it look "real."
Major enviro-wacko...
Not only does the photo look crudely photoshopped, but under existing clean air laws no refinery could operate like this. Sen. Boxer is perpetrating a fraud.
the food photo stuff ,,,,preparation for a shoot...that ive seen “documented” is rather astonishing
Elmers Glue used for white sauce was a standout....
Another absolutely brilliant lib tard from California.
AWESOME!
I think the photo is true, because I vaguely seem to remember seeing that very refinery and its flares looking that way one day several years ago. But it’s insanely misleading. Probably a once-in-a-ten-year sight, when you have a rare case of something becoming unbalanced in the refining process and excess being burned off in the flares, combined with a wet, humid day which mixes with the steam towers. And such a sight would only probably last for a single hour or two, to boot.
So, it’s like a single-hour event during a once every ten-year frequency situation. A big nothing.
There aren’t enough words in the dictionary to describe just how stupid, evil, and useless Sen. Barbara Boxer(D-CA) is, but then again, she is a Democrat.
Perhaps we can sum her up in one word - “EVIL” and leave it at that.
My favorite word for her in the future would be “DECEASED”. One can wish, very hard and perpetually, for this change in status. America’s best enemies are “DEAD” enemies. No exceptions.
Perhaps. But I just wanted to say that I did see the sight of these five or six flares going on at that refinery full-blast one day several years ago, and it did look like pretty much like this. It was an insanely rare sight, and it’s why I took notice. Years upon years go by without this kind of visual scenario. That’s why the photo is wildly misleading. It’s like taking a picture of a hurricane landing and equating it as though it were normal everyday weather.
I worked for a contractor at that refinery (when it was Texaco) one summer in the 1980s. Worked as a laborer. I dug ditches, and scraped rust off of the high-rise pipes for the paint crew.
“” It’s like taking a picture of a hurricane landing and equating it as though it were normal everyday weather.”
that makes perfect sense to me
CA got her from NY, thank you very much...
Gruber voters... Stupid is what a stupid does.....
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