EPA Blunders in Calculating Global Warming Deaths

ALAMO, Calif., May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claims authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions on the basis that warming increases the death rate. The EPA uses death certificates as the evidence that more people die from warmth than from cold.

Death rates do increase temporarily during heat waves, and the death certificates refer to a condition such as "heat stroke." There is no way to tell from death certificates, however, that warming decreases the death rate during the winter.

Death rates are substantially higher during winter months than summer months, and higher still in older populations. The death certificate generally reads "pneumonia," "heart attack," or "stroke," not "cold exposure." Cold causes sludging of the blood, decreasing circulation to the lungs, heart, and brain, especially in older people.

The EPA assumes that carbon dioxide emissions are the cause of recent warming - a disproved or at least disputed assertion. But even if they are, the EPA has no authority to restrict substances that benefit human health, only those that cause harm. Warming decreases the death rate. Cold increases the death rate, and more people will suffer more from the cold if the EPA increases heating costs, the inevitable consequence of proposed regulations.

"The EPA mandate is based on preventing harm to human health," states Howard Maccabee, Ph.D., M.D. "EPA regulation of carbon dioxide has no basis, if health is improved overall by warming."

In fact, it will cause more deaths, not prevent them.

Maccabee will present his data at the 4th International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago on May 17. (http://www.heartland.org/events/2010Chicago/index.html) A physician with a biophysics research background, he is founder and a past president of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, (www.ddponline.org) a cosponsor of the conference.

SOURCE Doctors for Disaster Preparedness

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