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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>From the final paragraph of the provided link <A
href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/29"><STRONG><FONT
color=#527194 size=3 face="Times New Roman">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</FONT></STRONG></A> referenced by Moffett:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>"<FONT face="Times New Roman">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."</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>"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?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Also, considering the atrocious spelling errors in
one short paragraph one might well wonder at this groups ability to reach a
cogent conclusion.</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>g</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=starbliss@gmail.com href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">Ted Moffett</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 20, 2009 9:20
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Institute for
Public Accuracy: China, U.S. and Global Warming</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2127"
target=_blank><FONT
color=#0068cf>http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2127</FONT></A><BR><BR>Institute
for Public Accuracy<BR>980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C.
20045<BR>(202) 347-0020 * <A href="http://www.accuracy.org"
target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.accuracy.org</FONT></A> * <A
href="mailto:ipa@accuracy.org">ipa@accuracy.org</A><BR>___________________________________________________<BR><BR>Wednesday,
November 18, 2009<BR><BR>China, U.S. and Global Warming<BR> <BR><A
href="mailto:simone.lovera@globalforestcoalition.org"><STRONG><FONT
color=#527194>SIMONE LOVERA</FONT></STRONG></A><BR>Based in Paraguay, Lovera
is co-founder of the <A
href="http://www.globalforestcoalition.org/"><STRONG><FONT
color=#527194>Global Forest Coalition</FONT></STRONG></A>. 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."<BR><BR>Lovera will be at the
Copenhagen summit on climate change from December 5 to 19. <BR><BR>See: "<A
href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/29"><STRONG><FONT
color=#527194>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</FONT></STRONG></A>"
<BR><BR>Lovera is also reachable via <B><A
href="mailto:hallie@globaljusticeecology.org"><FONT color=#527194>Hallie
Boas</FONT></A></B>. <BR><BR>Boas is coordinator of <A
href="http://globaljusticeecology.org/newvoices.php"><STRONG><FONT
color=#527194>New Voices on Climate Change for the Global Justice Ecology
Project</FONT></STRONG></A> and can connect media to individuals and groups
working on global warming around the world.<BR><BR><BR>For more information,
contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:<BR>Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020;
or David Zupan, (541)
484-9167<BR>------------------------------------------</DIV>
<DIV>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</DIV>
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