Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t JoNova – The American EPA has just awarded $8 million to study the impact of climate change on the indoor environment.
According to the Washington Times;
Forget violent storms, raging wildfires and steamy outdoor temperatures, the Obama administration’s war on climate change is heading indoors this time.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday awarded $8 million in grants to nine universities to help better understand the impact of climate change on indoor air quality.
The agency said climate change’s impact on indoor air pollutants like mold, mildew and asthma triggers isn’t well understood.
“Learning how air quality, climate, and energy interact in an indoor environment will help us design buildings that better protect people’s health,” explained Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA’s New England office
Seems like a perfect job for today’s computer obsessed climatologists – a daring field trip to furthest reaches of the office broom closet. No doubt the results of this vital study will be published in some future IPCC report.
It does get warmer in my house after eating at taco bell. Hmmmmmmmmmmm
This will just a start a whole of bunch of additional studies for those in the team.
EPA wants into our homes. No such thing as privacy under communism.
At last- the real reason for this study.
@ur momisugly Mark and two cats (as we do, both black no wonder we don’t win lotteries) + 1000.
Aren’t they looking at the cooling towers now as the source for the legionars outbreak? Not global warming but maybe worth looking at.
They have known about cooling towers and Legionnaire’s since the first outbreak. Nevertheless, that would be for CDC or other agencies to investigate, not EPA.
“The agency said climate change’s impact on indoor air pollutants like mold, mildew and asthma triggers isn’t well understood.”
Can’t they just compare indoor air pollutants in warmer climates with those in cooler climates?
I’d be a lot more interested in studying the effects current U.S. energy policy will have on the indoor environment. When the cost of electric power hits 40-cents, I predict our indoor environment will suck, particularly in summer!
Ironic isn’t it that faked dangers of absorption refrigeration by the environmentalists killed it off when it would have made totally solar powered air conditioning used for cooling really cheap compare to current ones and absolutely free to run with almost zero maintenance.
Makes perfect sense to me.
CAGW is also only found inside buildings on computer simulations so this is a logical sequence.
Probably they can find the consequences of their Climate Change in the only place it seems to exist, on the same computers.
So it is all an inside job.
After all these years of doom and gloom, manmade global warming is yet to be measured anywhere out in the real world.
Nothing says Climatology like researching the effect on an entirely manmade environment of a nonspecific external weather event.
At high temp, a microprocessor can make miscalculations or just crash. I have seen that on a badly designed, badly cooled, set-top box.
Will global warming affect computers? Will global warming affect computer simulations of climate?
Will computer simulations of climate affect energy needs? Will computer simulations of climate generate more CO2?
Is there a tipping point where computer simulations of climate are not possible?
I’m sure these studies have already been done, since we are routinely advised to stay indoors for almost every instance of the outside conditions deviating from the norm.
UV index…stay indoors
Pollen count…stay indoors
Ozone …stay indoors
Forest fire…stay indoors
Wind chill… stay indoors
Terrorists… stay indoors
Earthquake… get outside and face those other hazards. Good luck!
God I thought the leaders in the UK were the dregs but you are really suffering in the US right now with a pathetic wierdo for a president and a very dubious businessman as the most likely replacement.
Wow, awesome! !
In my increasingly cynical view, I see this proposed study as a means for the EPA to intrude on the private lives of citizens even further. It used to be that a person could do what they want inside thier domicile as long as the activity did not release visible/detectable emissions to the air, soil, or water outside of the domicile. I see this as the EPA just finding another way to control human activity inside a private residence. Not so far-fetched, I would say. Sarcasm not intended here, sadly.
Regards,
MCR
“EPA: $8 million to study “indoor” climate change”
Hmmm…those with air conditioning will be cooler in the summer and those without it will be hotter in the summer.
Study done.
Who do I tell where to send my check?