"A new study by
University of Houston researchers could threaten to unravel scientific claims used to justify the
Obama administration’s global warming agenda.
Texas researchers
published findings that global warming is actually reducing high-ozone days in the Houston area. The finding contradicts claims made by the Environmental Protection Agency that global warming will increase the number of days with high levels of ground-level ozone.
“We examined the past 23 years of ground-level O3 data and selected meteorological parameters in Houston, Texas, which historically has been one of the most polluted cities in the United States,” wrote researchers with the University of Houston’s Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science.
Scientists found increased sea breeze due to “increasing land surface temperatures, increased pressure gradients, and slightly stronger on-shore winds” are contributing to lower days with high levels of ground-level ozone in Houston. Stronger breezes could also be cleaning up ozone in coastal cities around the world, according to researchers.
“These patterns driven by climate change produce a strengthening of the sea breeze, which should be a general result at locations worldwide,” Texas researchers noted.
These results are good news for the city of Houston, but bad news for the Obama administration. The White House claims warmer weather — caused by fossil fuel emissions — will increase ground-level ozone concentrations and cause more problems for people with respiratory illnesses like asthma.
The University of Houston study, however, suggests coastal cities around the world could see ozone levels decrease as temperatures rise, not increase, like the Obama administration has claimed."
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