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That is going to be a pretty strange conference. ýIf CO2 is now 'pollution' and not the result of perfect biomass combustion what performance targets will we now seek?</div>
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If they don't know the difference between an attribution of a contribution to a premature death and what is written on a death certificate, they are in for a shock. </div>
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I have been made aware of a new tense in the English language. The idea that CO2 is thought by the WHO to be a cause of death of thousands of children ýis stated in the 'future hopeful' tense. </div>
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The 'future hopeful' tense describes something said or written that the author hopes will one day be shown to be true. ýIt is a form of forecasting without the pretense of science. </div>
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<div>Going up in Smoke program schedule at <a href="http://bit.ly/WCSmoke">http://bit.ly/WCSmoke</a><br>
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5 April 2017<br>
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<a href="https://now.uiowa.edu/2017/04/ui-hosts-conference-save-millions-lives-globally">UI hosts conference to save millions of lives globally</a><br>
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"Millions of women around the world die every year from the simple household task of cooking...<br>
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>From April 12–14, the University of Iowa will host a group of internationally recognized experts at a conference,
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Women’s Health and the Environment: Going up in Smoke</a>, to address this silent global crisis...<br>
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The World Health Organization estimates that the <b>carbon dioxide</b>, carbon monoxide, and other pollutants released while burning biomass lead to 4 million deaths annually...<br>
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“Even in developing countries where this is such a problem, there is very little media discussion about this issue because<b> these deaths are spread out over the year and therefore not sensational</b>. It’s what Rob Nixon, a professor at Princeton, calls a
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