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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1064015)	4/6/2018 10:38:50 AM
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NEW PAPER: PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION IS “SACRIFICING THE POOR”Date: 18/01/18Global Warming Policy FoundationLondon, 18 January: A pair of influential reports published by the medical journal, The Lancet, are a “gross distortion” of public health science and threaten to devastate public health in the developing world. That is the warning by eminent epidemiologist Mikko Paunio. The Lancet Commissions on Pollution and Health have claimed that the third world is suffering appalling health effects from industrial pollution. But as Professor Paunio explains, this is far from the truth: “Most of the deaths that they say are caused by industrial air pollution are actually caused by domestic heating and cooking with renewable energy such as wood and dung, and most of the deaths from diarrhea that they say are caused by polluted water are actually caused by poor hygiene because the poor do not have enough water for washing.” Professor Paunio also says that the Lancet Commissions’ proposal for a ban on new fossil-fueled power stations will be devastating for human health: “To prevent most of the deaths from diarrhea, you need abundant water supplies, and that depends on having a reliable electricity grid, which can only come from fossil fuels. Clean air depends on centralised power generation in large power stations.” Dr Paunio has set out his position in a hard-hitting report published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) this week, just ahead of an important meeting of the World Health Organization Executive, which is expected to consider the Lancet Commission’s proposals. “Professor Paunio writes clinically and factually to demonstrate the errors, exaggerations, distortions, misquotations and suppressions of established evidence which pervade The Lancet reports. His facts and arguments are vitally important and should be widely read,” writes former Labour minister Lord Donoughue in his foreword. Dr Paunio is a former government scientist at the European Commission and the World Bank. He works at the health ministry in Finland and is an adjunct professor at the University of Helsinki. He is best known as one of the first scientists to speak out against Andrew Wakefield’s claims, also published in The Lancet, about the MMR vaccine and autism. thegwpf.org thegwpf.org Green policies, like most liberal policies, are hell for the poor.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1064015)	4/6/2018 10:41:27 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584826

Raise the houses, instead of razing them. = We’re fighting the wrong trade battle with China. The future is clean energy. Global investments in renewables pass $2 trillion since 2010, with China in the lead by far. JOE ROMMAPR 5, 2018, 2:25 PM A SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC PLANT BEING BUILT ABOVE A POND IN CHINA, DECEMBER 11, 2017. CREDIT: VISUAL CHINA GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGES. President Trump believes the way to create jobs is by engaging in a trade war with China. A new report, however, makes clear that the Chinese understand the way to create the jobs of the future is by betting big on the strategic industries of the future — clean energy, batteries, and electric vehicles. Last year, the world added more solar power capacity than coal, nuclear, or gas-fired power capacity combined. That’s one of the bombshells from “ Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2018,” which UN Environment, the Frankfurt School, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) released Wednesday. Trump wants to gut energy program with highest job potential and rate of return Last year a record 157 gigawatts of overall renewable power were commissioned, “far out-stripping the 70GW of net fossil fuel generating capacity added last year.” China led the pack, investing a record $126 billion in renewables, a 30 percent increase from last year — and a remarkable 45 percent of total global spending. It’s also more than triple the total U.S. investment in renewables, which came to $40.5 billion last year. IN 2017, CHINA OUT-INVEST THE U.S. IN RENEWABLES BY 3-TO-1. China is aiming to be “the renewable energy superpower of the future” according to an article on “ Renewable Energy and Chinese Power,” by Amy Myers Jaffe in the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs. Jaffe, who is the Director of the Council on Foreign Relations program on Energy Security and Climate Change, warns the “United States risks frittering away its dominance of the global energy market” by focusing on fossil fuels to the exclusion of all forms of clean energy. Jaffe explains that China’s move to clean clean is strategic: “Beijing hopes to make itself an energy exporter to rival the United States, offering other countries the opportunity to reduce their purchases of foreign oil and gas — and cut their carbon emissions in the process.” In Historic Paris Climate Deal, World Unanimously Agrees To Not Burn Most Fossil Fuels After all, the world’s nations unanimously agreed in 2015 Paris to leave most fossil fuels in the ground. And even though Trump said last year he will withdraw from the Paris climate accord, the rest of the world is moving as quickly as possible towards clean energy. China’s pivot to clean energy supports “their ambition to replace the United States as the most important player in many regional alliances and trading relationships,” notes Jaffe. And, as the new report makes clear, it’s not just renewables that the Chinese seek dominance in. They have taken the lead in other strategic clean energy industries, notably electric vehicles (EVs) and batteries. In 2017 alone, China had two-and-a-half times the EV sales the U.S. did. CHINA LEADS ALL COUNTRIES IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE SALES. So even as Trump focuses on backward-looking energy sources like coal and backward-looking trade policies such as these latest tariff wars, the forward-looking Chinese have seized the initiative on the core job-creating industries of the future. thinkprogress.org