A new paper laments fine particulate matter in Asia. which is like worrying about third-hand smoke when actual smoking is still killing people there.

Smog from burning wood and dung for fuel is the top emissions problem for the world. Unfortunately, subsidizing solar panels in rich countries does nothing for that issue. Nor is saying something needs to be done about small micron particulate matter, PM2.5, which is so small you need an electron microscope to see it, when the issue is PM10. Yet because PM2.5 is one-quarter the size, environmental groups can claim there is four times as much of it. It doesn't keep anyone safer directly, PM10 reductions would be the only thing that saves lives.

The simulation by an American university is telling 29 states in India and the countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar they have a problem. They know they have a problem. Yet the World Bank, led by the US government, refuses to give them any alternatives to pollution that are not solar and wind. Which have been a $4 trillion placebo so far. They need nuclear. Even clean coal - which Dr. James Hansen said would keep our emissions below levels needed- or natural gas would solve the problem. We refuse to help in ways that will actually make a difference.

Real air pollution, PM10, is killing people. We don't need computer models using estimates - yes, that is the methodology in this new claim from an American school engaging in White Savior lecturing - to know that real smog kills people. PM10 is as irrelevant to mortality as acupuncture is to cancer treatment; it is a fine side hustle it it makes people feel better while they get actual medicine but only a placebo. Controlling PM10 would solve the issue. Activists could still splash up maps showing red for PM2.5 but people would still be healthier, the same way Californians are healthy despite meteorologists claiming for 200 days each year that PM2.5 is a problem.