what a steaming pile
Correlational study only with a spurious finding.
Look, homicides can be found to be higher when there are full moons on hot summer nights. But do full moons cause homicides? No!
I wonder who the funding source was for this study which will surely now be used as “scientific” evidence that pollution from industries and power plants is justification for their regulation under Obama’s Cap and Trade law.
California has 9 of the worst 25 cities for air pollution (not C02 but soot, ozone, and smog). Texas has none.
But Texas cities like Dallas import dirty coal to burn in their power plants while California has no coal power plants and instead imports coal power from Nevada, Arizona and Utah. The asthma rates in California, Texas, Arizona, Utah and Nevada are roughly the same. But those kind of self-obvious statistics are not validated by studies.
Science in the Middle Ages was always in the service of the Kings (alchemy was used to scare other nations that gold could be produced out of rocks that could be used to hire a mercenary army to win wars).
With secularization in modern societies, scientism has replaced science as the great legitimizer and authority structure to support governments. And obligingly, governments in welfare state oblige with $2 billion of funding for global warming research and bogus studies on childhood maladies supposedly linked to air pollution. Big money scientists are __ores and government their pimps.
If the authors had blamed marijuana instead of pollution, everybody would agree with them. Same junk science, different bias.