From Katie Mandes, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
In “Saving the world, plan B” Fred Pearce mischaracterises the Pew Center’s position on the idea of controlling greenhouse gas emissions through “contraction and convergence” (13 December 2003, p 6). The quotes he attributes to our president, Eileen Classen, are taken from a Pew Center publication which she did not write.
Moreover, they are taken out of context and used to support a point of view not shared by the report’s authors. In fact, taken in context, they argue against contraction and convergence as a basis for future climate negotiations.
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