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Peter Gwynne's rebuttal of much of his cooling article

My 1975 'Cooling World' Story Doesn't Make Today's Climate Scientists Wrong
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Inside Science Minds
http://www.insidescience.org/content/my-1975-cooling-world-story-doesnt-make-todays-climate-scientists-wrong/1640

is worth the read, too .. so while the science of human caused global warming is set as fact, science is
making progress in other areas of concern, too .. link between dementia and pollution .. bits of a long one ..



"WE SHOULD GET should get out of here," says air pollution chemist Eben Cross. At 7 a.m. on this cold November day the wind blows steadily
through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Cambridge campus, cutting through our thin jackets. But Cross isn't afraid of the cold.
He worries about the air we're breathing—especially considering the six fire trucks directly ahead, idling in the dim morning light.

"We're getting hammered right now," Cross says...

[...]



While coarse pollution particles seldom make it past our upper lungs, fine and ultrafine particles can travel from our nostrils along neural pathways directly into our brains. Once there, they can wreak a special havoc that appears to kick off or accelerate the downward spiral of degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. While much of the research is still preliminary, the findings so far are compelling. Autopsies of the brains of people who lived in highly contaminated areas have turned up traces of pollution and corresponding brain trauma .. http://motherjones.com/documents/2090016-calderon-2012a-young-ap-and-brain-disease . And among those still living, epidemiologists have recorded elevated rates of brain disease .. https://motherjones.com/documents/2090026-jung-2015 .. and accelerated mental decline .. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094421/ .

All of this is especially scary when you consider how many people are at risk. Alzheimer's and Parkinson's already afflict 50 million people worldwide and about 6 million in the United States. In 2015, nearly 1 in 5 Medicare dollars will be spent on Alzheimer's; this disease and other types of dementia will cost the United States $226 billion. By 2050, experts predict, that cost will rise to $1.1 trillion—...

[...]

Researchers have struggled for decades to pinpoint the risk factors that, in addition to genetics, can contribute to a person's likelihood of developing Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; theories have ranged from viral infection to aluminum exposure to high-fat diets, but none of these has withstood scientific scrutiny. The research implicating air pollution is in its early stages, and many questions remain unanswered—for example, it's unclear whether particle pollution initiates degenerative disease or merely accelerates it. Still, the evidence so far suggests that pollution could be the most pervasive potential cause of brain disease that scientists have ever discovered. We're not "beyond a doubt," says Michelle Block, a neurobiologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine, but "everything we do says this is probably happening."

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/05/air-pollution-dementia-alzheimers-brain

All of which brings back an old thought that i couldn't care less if ALL the climate change/global warming science was wrong in the long
run because we are still going to end up with a cleaner world as a result of our paying attention to the truth of it nowit .. i say just say

what have you got against a cleaner world
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=77145705

to any global warming skeptic, and let them say no to that one.

.. hip hip hooray to those living in non polluted areas .. i say that as a plane flies by nearly directly over my battered, bruised and still abused, aging old brain .. lol ..