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way to buy more time to make the switch from fossil fuels
to alternatives.<br>
Serious reductions in air pollutants like soot and smog
bring <b>cleaner air, less asthma/lung disease/heart
attacks and could <u>cut warming by 30 per cent.</u><br>
</b> No new technology needed, just something like a <i><b>Green
Marshall Plan</b></i> to bring simple things like $20
clean-burning cooking stoves to hundreds of millions of
people.</span></span></font></span></span>"<br>
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<td>[LeahyArticles] Climate negotiations; Canada Hides Tar
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<td>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:05:53 +0200</td>
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<td>stephen leahy <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:steve.leahy0@gmail.com"><steve.leahy0@gmail.com></a></td>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#000000"
face="Baskerville"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 16px;">Hi. Quick update here from the
Bonn climate talks where a few countries (</span></font><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: Baskerville; font-size: medium; line-height:
16px;">Canada, Japan, Russia, USA & Saudi Arabia) are
blocking progress. It is difficult to be optimistic when
countries continue to put their national interests ahead of
an agreement -- even when their people want real action on
climate change. <b>Democracy is being put to the test like
never before.</b> </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: Baskerville; font-size: medium; line-height:
16px;"><br>
</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: Baskerville; font-size: medium; line-height:
16px;">Negotiations will go late today (Friday). There are
some positives which I will try to focus on in my final
article.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: Baskerville; font-size: medium; line-height:
16px;"><br>
</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="Baskerville"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: medium; line-height: 16px;">First up.
Canada's opposition to curbs on emissions arise from the
fact it <b>has become an oil state like Saudi Arabia</b>.
Other countries are finally beginning to criticize
Canada for its hypocrisy -- and now fraud by trying to
hide the emissions growth from its <b>mega-polluter the
tar sands. </b></span></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="Baskerville"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
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</span></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="Baskerville"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: medium; line-height: 16px;">Second there is a
quick way to buy more time to make the switch from
fossil fuels to alternatives. Serious reductions in air
pollutants like soot and smog bring <b>cleaner air,
less asthma/lung disease/heart attacks and could <u>cut
warming by 30 per cent.</u> </b> No new technology
needed, just something like a Green Marshall Plan to
bring simple things like $20 clean-burning cooking stove
to hundreds of millions of people. </span></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="Baskerville"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
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</span></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"
face="Baskerville"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="line-height: 16px; font-size: medium;">Finally my
son's Derek's efforts to raise awareness about the dangers
of Canada's Tar Sands has turned into a mega-movement with
demonstrations in at <b>50 cities around the globe on
Saturday June 18</b>. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/blog/derek-leahy/what-international-stop-tar-sands-day">Here
is his latest update</a>. </span></font></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height:
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<b>BONN, Jun 13, 2011 (IPS) -
Canada was roundly criticised by
other nations at a major U.N.
climate meeting last week after
being caught underreporting
carbon emissions from its tar
sands oil production facilities,
one of the country's biggest and
fastest growing sources of
global warming gases.</b><br>
<br>
But even the "full emissions" data
that Canada finally released
represents only about half of the
actual emissions, according to a
new report. <br>
<br>
"Small oil sands companies are not
required to report their
emissions. And oil-refining
emissions are not included in tar
sands emissions," said independent
Canadian researcher Michelle
Mech. </span></span></span></font></b></p>
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Reducing Soot and Smog Would Help Stabilise Climate</span></span><span
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span
class="marron" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 102, 0);
text-decoration: none;">By Stephen Leahy</span></span><span
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span
class="texto1" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;
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<b>BONN, Jun 14, 2011 (IPS) - Clean the air, cool the planet and
prevent millions of deaths with fast action on soot and smog,
a new report urges.</b><br>
<br>
Air pollutants like black carbon (soot) and ground-level ozone
(smog) arise from incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and
biomass like wood and charcoal. <br>
<br>
Nations or regional blocks of nations could decide to put
measures into place that quickly improve their air quality,
reduce crop losses and shorten lives. And, almost as a side
benefit, those efforts would do much to slow the rate of global
warming, says the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.unep.org/dewa/Portals/67/pdf/Black_Carbon.pdf"
target="_blank" class="notalink" style="color: rgb(0, 102,
153);">scientific assessment report</a> released at the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://unfccc.int/2860.php"
target="_blank" class="notalink" style="color: rgb(0, 102,
153);">UNFCCC</a>) negotiating session here in Bonn. <br>
</span></span>
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