Rebuttal to Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy’s’ ‘fact-free’ argument in opposition to Trump’s repeal of CO2 Endangerment Discovering

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-science-guy-and-facts-1b36607e

By Benjamin Zycher – Senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute

Bill Nye “The Science Guy” invokes everything except science in his criticism of the Environmental Protection Agency’s rescission of its 2009 finding that greenhouse-gas emissions endanger public health (“The EPA Is Wrong About Greenhouse Gases,” Letters, Feb. 25).

Contrary to the EPA 2009 predictions: There has been a decline in smog levels from 1980 to 2024. There has been no trend in hurricane numbers or intensities since 1973. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finds no change in global flooding. There has been no trend in the EPA heat wave index since 1895, except for the 1930s. Several studies show a decline in net mortality from heat and cold. U.S. wildfires have declined sharply since 1926, and global wildfire acreage declined 24% between 1998 and 2015. Global droughts have declined about 0.5% per decade since 1950. Global per capita food production has increased 40% since 1980. And the latest peer-reviewed research reports no acceleration globally in sea-level rise. The Science Guy’s argument is fact-free.

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