[Vision2020] Institute for Public Accuracy: China, U.S. and Global Warming‏

[g. crabtree]

>From the final paragraph of the provided link Global Warming Causes 300,000 Deaths a Year, Says Kofi Annan think tank: Climate change is greatest humanitarian challenge facing the world as heatwaves, floods and forest fires become more severe referenced by Moffett:

"Calculations for the report are based on data provided by the World Bank, the World Health organisation, the UN, the Potsdam Insitute For Climate Impact Research, and others, including leading insurance companies and Oxfam. However, the authors accept that the estimates are uncertain and could be higher or lower."

"Uncertain" in other words, a guess. A great big maybe/ maybe not. Somehow I find it difficult to see how destroying what's left of the US economy on the basis of a report put out by folks who do not have our best interests foremost in their minds could be a good idea. I mean really, aren't Obama, Reid, and Pelosi doing it fast enough to suit you?

Also, considering the atrocious spelling errors in one short paragraph one might well wonder at this groups ability to reach a cogent conclusion.

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  From: Ted Moffett 
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  Subject: [Vision2020] Institute for Public Accuracy: China, U.S. and Global Warming‏


  http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2127

  Institute for Public Accuracy
  980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
  (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa at accuracy.org
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  Wednesday, November 18, 2009

  China, U.S. and Global Warming
   
  SIMONE LOVERA
  Based in Paraguay, Lovera is co-founder of the Global Forest Coalition. She said today: "The U.S. per capita carbon dioxide emissions are so much higher than China's emissions. In 2005, the U.S. was nearly 23.5 while China is 5.5 [tons of CO2 per person per year]. It's inappropriate for the U.S. to be demanding that China reduce emissions unless you somehow argue that the U.S. has a right to pollute the rest of the planet and China doesn't. China actually showed real leadership in the voluntary commitments it made at the UN General Assembly meeting in September. I understand Obama has to deal with the U.S. Senate, but U.S. officials are actually obstructing progress at the international climate negotiations. The Europeans have agreed to a 20 percent reduction -- the Scottish [government] agreed to 40 percent. The U.S. government is stopping these from being binding commitments. Meanwhile, studies are finding that 300,000 people are dying because of climate disruption; countries in the Pacific are on course to be under water."

  Lovera will be at the Copenhagen summit on climate change from December 5 to 19. 

  See: "Global Warming Causes 300,000 Deaths a Year, Says Kofi Annan think tank: Climate change is greatest humanitarian challenge facing the world as heatwaves, floods and forest fires become more severe" 

  Lovera is also reachable via Hallie Boas. 

  Boas is coordinator of New Voices on Climate Change for the Global Justice Ecology Project and can connect media to individuals and groups working on global warming around the world.


  For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
  Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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  Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett


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