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Group finds health savings in emissions cuts (Mega-BS Alert)
dailyclimate.com ^ | Sep. 14, 2010 | Douglas Fischer

Posted on 09/14/2010 4:15:14 PM PDT by PROCON

Your doctor would approve: €30.5 billion extra in avoided health care costs if Europe shifts emissions reduction target to 30 percent by 2020, according to a new analysis Upping the European Union's emissions reduction target from 20 percent to 30 percent would reap €30.5 billion a year in health savings by 2020, according to an analysis released Tuesday by two health groups.

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And the savings could be even higher, the authors note, as no study to date has explored the cost savings of avoiding the floods, heat waves and increases in infectious diseases predicted by climate models.

Climate models are no better than coin flips!

1 posted on 09/14/2010 4:15:18 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ping!


2 posted on 09/14/2010 4:15:52 PM PDT by PROCON ( We Must Always Remember!)
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They didn’t account for the savings due to less emergency care for frostbite, and colds that turn into nastier infections, if the goals are not met...:^)


3 posted on 09/14/2010 4:56:57 PM PDT by az_gila (AZ - one Governor down... we don't want her back...)
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To: PROCON

Climate models are no better than coin flips!

Your statements have even more weight if you tried looking up journal articles on Web of Science. A great deal of these models’ creation ended years ago. THEY WOULD NEED AN UPDATE TO EVEN SOUND SLIGHTLY CREDIBLE.


4 posted on 09/15/2010 1:34:36 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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