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2008-06-18T00:54:00.000-07:00

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Shocker! Internet grass-roots campaign could see unknown win White House; not Obama
Austria shows its true colors; refuses to extradite evil Nazi spotted at soccer match
Rosemarie Fritzl returns to the scene of the crime
How to save millions of lives: stop worrying obsessively about Global Warming
No clues in search for Brandon Swanson now missing one month
Did Josef Fritzl rape his 19 year-old grandaughter Kerstin?
Enjoy this uplifting video about Elisabeth Smart; abducted for 9 months and safely recovered

Fritzl
Rosemarie Fritzl returns to the scene of the crime
Did Josef Fritzl rape his 19 year-old grandaughter Kerstin?
Josef Fritzl to face the music for murder by neglect; Kerstin plays loud music at 3am
Kerstin Fritzl, aged 19, has NEVER been outside: her first wish ...to meet Robbie Williams
Elisabeth Fritzl fast-forwards her police testimony to pay back her evil dad
Wakey, wakey! After 7 weeks, Kerstin Fritzl finally out of her coma
Elisabeth Fritzl will be well enough to testify against her evil father in July
"I had no idea," cried Rosemarie Fritzl on seeing a white haired stooping toothless Elisabeth

Madeleine McCann
New Aussie Book: Paedophiles discount kidnapping Maddie McCann for morbid sexual practices
Not being politically correct about McCann ruins another career
McCann: we're all going on a summer holiday; claim 2 year-old twins need a vacation
Maddie reconstruction: four of the Tapas 7 joined the McCanns in refusing to go back
McCann in the Mirror: from "Up Yours Senor" to "Bungling Portuguese Plods"
McCann could face 10 years if found guilty of negligence; but Judge's ruling sets back investigation
Enough said: McCann refuse to go back to crime-scene to help Police find Maddie
20 Maddie Clues need solving

Smiley Face Killer
Brandon Swanson? X-files? Smiley Face Killer? How to explain another student vanishing w/o trace?
Missing student Nicholas Garza found drowned: SFK victim?
Congressman asks FBI for 2nd look at Josh Szostak's death
Was perfect student Chris Jenkins a victim of SFK
Brit media buying into Smiley Face Killer; FBI not so sure
List of 48 possible victims of the SFK

Kercher "Extreme Sex" Murder
Kercher Murder: A leading US investigator convinced of Amanda Knox's innocence
Italian police forced Amanda Knox into false confession
Non capisco: Kercher police in fifth suspect fiasco
Vanity Fair concludes no case against Amanda Knox
Italian court rejects Knox's latest bid for freedom
Knox's legal team file for her immediate release
False confessions: Central Park jogger

Shannon Matthews Flying Circus
$5 million down the toilet: Police run up huge bill finding Shannon Matthews after fake abduction
Whats wrong with Dewsbury? Britain's Northern Killing Fields
No hiding place for Shannon Matthews "step-dad". Craig Meehan
The roller-coaster life of nine-yr-old Shannon Matthews
Shannon Matthews mom will not be standing by her man; Meehan's not the only fishmonger in the sea
Shannon reunited with younger siblings
Shannon Matthews mother goes bald to escape whupping

Knifetown, London Teen Murders
London's crisis is "desperate and awful" says Government
Cockney disgrace: now they're slaughtering teenage girls
How to stop the teen violence: massage and meditation
London violence worse than Detroit claims UK trauma surgeon
London Teen murder number 15 confirms guns, gangs and drugs form a deadly cocktail
Harry Potter cant save 14th victim, actor Robert Knox

Scarlett Keeling Goa Murder
Missing semen lands the case against Scarlett Keelings murderers in the toilet
Will the Indians mess with the semen? Mom fears more cover-up
Her ma claims the son of Goa politician killed Scarlett; come back, prove it, demand angry Indians
Hell no, we wont Goa
Mr Big : Indians say show us the beef;Mom returns home without kidney and liver
Government incompetence matches its corruption
Indians remove Scarlett's organs; coverup?

Zodiac Killer
Getting to know the Zodiac Killer
The Zodiac Kiler Part 1 1966-69
Dispelling 5 myths of the Zodiac Killer
Rick Marshall one time suspect never charged
Arthur Leigh Allan Wiki - Deceased suspect in Zodiac case
Details of all four confirmed murder locations of the Zodiac

Crime Files
Top 10 Most Famous Child Abduction Cases
British small store operator, father of 11, shot and killed; America's "right to bear arms" looks appealing
Czech Fritzl kept 5 women in secret camp; literally worked one to death
Frank Phel Murder: Beware of the Italian who offers you free cappuccino
Unsolved Tom Wales Assassination
Top 6 US Murder Cold Cases

Celebrity Infamy
Why Bowie, Michael Jackson, George Michael and Madonna do dumb things
Never mind the bruising, here's the Sex Pistols
Fritzl edges Wacko Jacko to win All-Time Best Father Honors
Heather Mills demanded $1.2 million annually from Paul for charity work; stiffs amputee for $20k
Who the **** is Carlos Slim? A: The World's second richest man
Old lady's balls-up almost cost Zoe Ball more than her all-round blonde good looks
Snooty Brits bust TV Star for hairy armpits; Mayor Boris bags busty Dynasty vixen

Sex Wars
Why men hate women to say no
Three men lose genitals; find silver clouds
Eating the sheep you have sex with is strictly prohibited
Auto erotic: man brags he's shagged 1000 cars .
Judge rules sex once a week more than enough
Man 93 caught in hooker sting: gets citation, deserves medal
Women more turned on that men by sexual images

Scarily Stupid People
I guarantee you wont guess where this Chinese restaurant keeps its fish
McDonalds introduces bumper cars at its drive-thru
Would you go on a Dreadlock Holiday with scarily stupid Heather Mills?
Frozen man frozen stiff after he joins female friend's frozen stiff in morgue freezer
Sexy Aussie Supermodel Rachel Hunter sends loved one to the doghouse
McEnroe was right; Wimbledon umpires jerks (video)

Community Chest
Not guilty by reason of huge breasts
Marilyn Monroe naked and Madonna in the buff: can you tell the difference?
Not guilty by reason of huge breasts part 2: Meet the World Record holder
Sucking breasts is good for kids brains
How does this blond make her breasts bounce (video)
Kathy Lee Gifford and her hubbie's busty blond mistress

Arts and Media
Feckless BBC Management Hates Dr Who
Oxy Moran's prediction for Best Picture Oscar: No Country (includes draft of movie script)
Three little pigs go the way of the Maddie forum
BBC Disses Fawlty Towers: Ranks only #5 in Top 100
Shameless: Sharon Matthews mother is a bloody fool
Yankee wife #3 takes Basil Fawlty to the cleaners

High IQ Animals
Rescue Dog save three lives; receives breathtaking reward
Mexican donkey goes directly to jail; does not pass Jose
Six cutest animals that could still kill you
I find the dead interview with sniffer dog handler
Have Eddie and Keela gone splitsville
Collie takes viagra; gives new meaning to give a dog a boner

Global Warming; Its Bloody Freezing
Oxy Moran's skepticism about Global Warming makes him as immoral as Josef Fritzl: WTF?
The end is nearer claims Al Gore
When will eco-socialists stop lying?
Ding dong ding dong, Al Gore got it wrong
Millions starving; nice one, Al Gore
Thinktank finds 35 errors in Gore's movie

Political Correctness Pricks
Tyson charges gullible Brits $400 to tell how he shed bad boy image; then goes to strip club
Rudd pleads guilty - Americans invade Australia
Parents not allowed to take pics of their own kids
Santa's ho ho ho falls victim to Imus
Nipple ring intifida earns woman bravery award
Prince William should bop vulgar Aussies who laugh at his mom's death

It's a Small World
50 ways to leave Obama
Brits restart Cold War; claim "We was robbed by Eastern bloc"
Obama gets the nod from Castro; kiss of death?
Iran lies about nukes: fool me once shame on you; fool me twice shame on Obama
Chinese takeaway: "I'm bored" means do you want to have sex
Send Paris Hilton to Iran?

The Beautiful Game
Is Roman broke? Chelsea target 6 year old
America's Man United beat Russia's Chelsea in All-English penalty squeaker
Watch video of drunken Glasgow Rangers fans rioting in Manchester
Jose Mourinho congratulates himself
Will Sir Alex use Sex Police to enforce 40 hour ban on nookie?
Manchester City FC in badge cock-up

Greatest Lists
Top 7 Dumbest Career Moves by Rock Stars
Top 10 All-Time Best Fathers
Top 10 Heists Demanding Huge Balls of Steel
Top 10 Most Famous Child Abduction cases in the world
Top 20 lawsuits: Part 1
Top 20 lawsuits: Part 2
Top 2500+ oxymorons ( New World Record for Oxy)
Top 100 Britcoms

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Shocker! Internet grassroots campaign could see virtual unknown win White House; not Obama

2008-06-17T12:39:00.000-07:00

Fritzl's Austria shows its true colors; refuses to extradite evil Nazi spotted at soccer match

2008-06-16T10:08:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to the Sun in the UK for outing wanting NAZI mass murderer Milivoj Asner at the European soccer championships which are currently being hosted by Austria.

Shame on the Austrian authorities! After claiming they wanted to rebuild the countries shattered image after the discovery of Josef Fritzl NAZI-like activities, the Austrian authorities are refusing him to extradite him to his home country of Croatia to stand trial. Their excuse...he's not well enough to stand trial.

Oxy Moran thinks its totally unacceptable for the Austrians to hide behind bureaucratic red tape. Any man who is well enough to wonder around his home town and then join a crowd of 50000 soccer fans to watch a match is more than well enough to stand trial.

He is one of several prominent Nazi criminals who resided in Austria without ever been brought to justice due to what is perceived as lenience on behalf of Austrian authorities.

There hasn’t been a trial of a Nazi criminal in Austria for over 30 years – but not for lack of Nazis, but rather because authorities are not willing to act

MINGLING with football fans in a pavement café, an elderly gentleman soaks up the atmosphere of Euro 2008.
Yet Milivoj Asner, out strolling with his wife, is no ordinary supporter welcoming his national side Croatia to his adopted Austrian town.
At No 4 on the list of most wanted Nazi war criminals, he instead stands accused of deporting hundreds of Jews, gypsies and Serbs to World War II death camps.
And he has been spared extradition only after Austrian officials insisted he was too poorly to face charges in Croatia of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
Asner, who lives under an assumed name in Croatia’s European Championships base of Klagenfurt, is the subject of an international arrest warrant and on Interpol’s Most Wanted list.
The Sun tracked down the 95-year-old former police chief and Gestapo agent and secretly filmed him as he strolled confidently for more than a mile, arm-in-arm with second wife Edeltraut.
Walking without a stick, he even roamed 8th May Street – named after VE Day.
He stopped several times to sit in cafés, chatting to waiters and sipping leisurely drinks alongside excited football fans. He was ignored by hundreds of armed police patrolling the streets, even though locals KNOW his real identity – and the unspeakable crimes for which he has yet to face justice.
The scenes made a mockery of Austria’s insistence that Asner is too sick to be sent home.
Yet ironically, on the day we captured his carefree three-hour outing, the country’s officials restated their decision to protect him from trial.
Last night Holocaust campaigners insisted The Sun’s exposé should shame Austria into finally sending Asner back to Croatia, where prosecutors are ready to haul him before court.
The Jerusalem-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which hunts Nazis worldwide, said our probe exposed the country for shielding a suspected war criminal.
Director Dr Efraim Zuroff said: “He is clearly enjoying a life that many hundreds of victims were denied when they were sent off to be murdered.
“The Sun found him healthy enough to stroll happily round his home town for hours. This is highly significant.
“Austria has long had a reputation as a paradise for war criminals and now they’ve been caught in the act. It is time for them to do what is right and help bring Nazi war criminals to justice.
“If this man is well enough to walk around town unaided and drink wine in bars, he’s well enough to answer for his past.
“He’s shown absolutely no remorse. It is our intention to bring this to the attention of the Austrian Minister of Justice Maria Berger and call for his immediate extradition.”
Asner fled his homeland after the war and has been living in Klagenfurt since 2006.
He was indicted a year earlier in Croatia for crimes committed when he was a Ustashi police chief under the country’s Second World War fascist puppet regime.
An Interpol arrest warrant was issued with the highest priority and his photo and personal details are listed on its Most Wanted website.
Anyone knowing his whereabouts is urged to call police.
The Sun traced Asner, whose first wife faked his death, to his smart third-floor flat near Klagenfurt’s stadium. The home, where he lives under the name Dr Georg Aschner, is opposite the Croatian cultural centre in a district where fellow ex-pats know his true identity.
One worker boasted how “an SS man” lived opposite.
She added: “He’s a super old man. His wife is ill, but he still takes a walk most days.”
Despite joining Croatian fans in the streets in the build-up to the team’s matches, Asner stayed indoors to avoid packed streets on the day of their opening game.

MILIVOJ ASNER is number four on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s Top 10 list of alleged Nazi war criminals living in freedom.

But one source said: “He’s fiercely patriotic and nationalistic, and there’s no doubt he’ll want Croatia to win. He may be old but his views haven’t changed – he wants them to win at everything.”
Edeltraut confirmed: “He’s a big Croatia football fan and watches all the games.”
Officials originally ruled Asner could not be sent to Croatia because he was an Austrian citizen.
In September 2005, they admitted he was NOT.
But they stalled again, claiming he was too ill for trial.
Six days ago, the Austrian government wrote to a Jewish group reaffirming its decision not to extradite Asner.
It said Ministry of Justice tests had proved “he is not capable enough to be questioned or go before a court”. But Dr Zuroff, whose group last year launched Operation Last Chance to nail the final surviving Nazis, said: “The passage of time in no way diminishes the guilt of the perpetrators.
“Time is running out, but Asner must face justice for the sake of all those who died in concentration camps.
“This is our chance for justice. I believe The Sun’s evidence could help it happen.”
Asner is alleged to have stood by in Pozega during 1941 and ’42 as Ustashi fascists burned the synagogue.
Other evidence against him is said to include papers ordering the deportation of Serbs and Jews.
Last night Asner confirmed his identity when asked by The Sun – but insisted he was NOT a war criminal.
And he denied taking part in deportations.
Asner said: “It is not true. It’s hilarious.
“I didn’t have anything to do with it. I was just an officer with the justice department – a lawyer. I never did anything bad against anybody

Rosemarie Fritzl returns to the scene of the crime

2008-06-16T09:26:00.000-07:00

Can you imagine what was going through Rosemarie Fritzl's mind as you took a look at the cellar where her husband repeatedly raped her daughter Elisabeth over nearly a quarter of a century and raised five of her daughter's children?

The more Oxy Moran talks to people about the case, the harder he finds it to believe that Rosemarie never once had the slightest interest in trying to figure out where her husband spent his time. How oculd she not once in 24 years have wondered why he was delivering food in a wheelbarrow to the cellar below her house. What about all the missing hand-me-downs of clothes previously worn by her upstairs kids?

Nevertheless we know she has adamantly denied knowing about what was taking place underneath her feet. We also know that Austrian police we're equally skeptical; have interviewed her twice and concluded she didn't know. Further we also know that Elisabeth is convinced her mother knew nothing. Again Oxy Moran has never suggested she had explicit details.

But its reasonable to wonder if she had a strong inkling and chose to play ostrich for fear of what she might find. I can certainly understand why she would be scared to know what could be down there. Can you imagine what meant through her mind in 2005 when the TV was providing around the coverage of the discovery of another little girl, Natascha Kampusch, in a cellar after being used eight years as sex slave. Based on what we've learned about Josef Fritzl being an incredible actor, and a huge hypocrite, I bet he was the first voice to stand up and condemn her captor.

By Kate Connolly in Berlin for the Guardian UK >
The wife of Josef Fritzl has visited the dungeon where he kept their daughter imprisoned for 24 years to collect personal items for her daughter and grandchildren, the Austrian authorities said.
Rosemarie Fritzl, 69, received police permission to return to the family home, which is still a crime scene, for the first time since details emerged of the secret family her husband had kept beneath their home.
She arrived at the house late last week, along with a plain-clothed female officer in a red VW Golf. Police who are standing guard round the clock at the house in Amstetten, Austria, opened a gate to let the car through.
Dressed in a pale blue blouse and beige trousers, Fritzl spent around 40 minutes on the property.
She emerged with two suitcases and a large bag full of clothes and toys for her daughter Elisabeth and her six children, all fathered by Josef Fritzl. Rosemarie Fritzl is living with Elisabeth and the children in a specially built apartment in a nearby psychiatric clinic.
"A request was made to be able to enter the house and was granted," said Gerhard Sedlacek, spokesman for the state prosecution service of St Pölten. He said that it was the first time any member of the Fritzl family had returned to the house since the horror story came to light at the end of April. He added it was likely that the house would be destroyed as no one now wanted to live there.
Rosemarie Fritzl is understood to have taken with her a list of requests for specific items which Elisabeth and the "cellar" children, Felix, five, Stefan, 18, and Kerstin, 19, who emerged from an artificially induced coma and returned to her family for the first time last week, were missing.
She also went to her house to pick up items of clothing for herself and the three children born to Elisabeth and her father - Lisa, 16, Monika, 14, and Alexander, 12 - who were brought up upstairs. Psychiatrists are attempting to bring the two sides of the family together.
Fritzl is still in custody in St Pölten and faces possible charges of rape, imprisonment and incest. A spokesman for the state prosecutor said last week he may go on trial later this year.
More details of the children's recuperation were revealed yesterday. Kerstin is said to be making a good recovery from an illness that nearly killed her. Felix is still wearing sunglasses as his eyes get used to UV rays, and the children who lived in the cellar are being taught how to climb stairs. Their favourite part of the clinic is said to be its botanical gardens.
Rosemarie has denied any knowledge of her husband's double life and investigators say they have no reason not to believe that she is telling the truth.

How to save millions of lives: stop worrying obessessively about global warming

2008-06-15T10:46:00.000-07:00

Chill out.
Stop fighting over global warming -- here's the smart way to attack it.

By Bjorn Lomborg WaPo
Sunday, October 7, 2007; B01

COPENHAGEN

All eyes are on Greenland's melting glaciers as alarm about global warming spreads. This year, delegations of U.S. and European politicians have made pilgrimages to the fastest-moving glacier at Ilulissat, where they declare that they see climate change unfolding before their eyes.

Curiously, something that's rarely mentioned is that temperatures in Greenland were higher in 1941 than they are today. Or that melt rates around Ilulissat were faster in the early part of the past century, according to a new study. And while the delegations first fly into Kangerlussuaq, about 100 miles to the south, they all change planes to go straight to Ilulissat -- perhaps because the Kangerlussuaq glacier is inconveniently growing.

I point this out not to challenge the reality of global warming or the fact that it's caused in large part by humans, but because the discussion about climate change has turned into a nasty dustup, with one side arguing that we're headed for catastrophe and the other maintaining that it's all a hoax. I say that neither is right. It's wrong to deny the obvious: The Earth is warming, and we're causing it. But that's not the whole story, and predictions of impending disaster just don't stack up.

We have to rediscover the middle ground, where we can have a sensible conversation. We shouldn't ignore climate change or the policies that could attack it. But we should be honest about the shortcomings and costs of those policies, as well as the benefits.

Environmental groups say that the only way to deal with the effects of global warming is to make drastic cuts in carbon emissions -- a project that will cost the world trillions (the Kyoto Protocol alone would cost $180 billion annually). The research I've done over the last decade, beginning with my first book, "The Skeptical Environmentalist," has convinced me that this approach is unsound; it means spending an awful lot to achieve very little. Instead, we should be thinking creatively and pragmatically about how we could combat the much larger challenges facing our planet.

Nobody knows for certain how climate change will play out. But we should deal with the most widely accepted estimates. According to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ocean levels will rise between half a foot and two feet, with the best expectation being about one foot, in this century, mainly because of water expanding as it warms. That's similar to what the world experienced in the past 150 years.

Some individuals and environmental organizations scoff that the IPCC has severely underestimated the melting of glaciers, especially in Greenland. In fact, the IPCC has factored in the likely melt-off from Greenland (contributing a bit over an inch to sea levels in this century) and Antarctica (which, because global warming also generally produces more precipitation, will actually accumulate ice rather than shedding it, making sea levels two inches lower by 2100). At the moment, people are alarmed by a dramatic increase in Greenland's melting. This high level seems transitory, but if sustained it would add three inches, instead of one, to the sea level rise by the end of the century.

A one-foot rise in sea level isn't a catastrophe, though it will pose a problem, particularly for small island nations. But let's remember that very little land was lost when sea levels rose last century. It costs relatively little to protect the land from rising tides: We can drain wetlands, build levees and divert waterways. As nations become richer and land becomes a scarcer commodity, this process makes ever more sense: Like our parents and grandparents, our generation will ensure that the water doesn't claim valuable land.

The IPCC tells us two things: If we focus on economic development and ignore global warming, we're likely to see a 13-inch rise in sea levels by 2100. If we focus instead on environmental concerns and, for instance, adopt the hefty cuts in carbon emissions many environmental groups promote, this could reduce the rise by about five inches. But cutting emissions comes at a cost: Everybody would be poorer in 2100. With less money around to protect land from the sea, cutting carbon emissions would mean that more dry land would be lost, especially in vulnerable regions such as Micronesia, Tuvalu, Vietnam, Bangladesh and the Maldives.

As sea levels rise, so will temperatures. It seems logical to expect more heat waves and therefore more deaths. But though this fact gets much less billing, rising temperatures will also reduce the number of cold spells. This is important because research shows that the cold is a much bigger killer than the heat. According to the first complete peer-reviewed survey of climate change's health effects, global warming will actually save lives. It's estimated that by 2050, global warming will cause almost 400,000 more heat-related deaths each year. But at the same time, 1.8 million fewer people will die from cold.

The Kyoto Protocol, with its drastic emissions cuts, is not a sensible way to stop people from dying in future heat waves. At a much lower cost, urban designers and politicians could lower temperatures more effectively by planting trees, adding water features and reducing the amount of asphalt in at-risk cities. Estimates show that this could reduce the peak temperatures in cities by more than 20 degrees Fahrenheit.

Global warming will claim lives in another way: by increasing the number of people at risk of catching malaria by about 3 percent over this century. According to scientific models, implementing the Kyoto Protocol for the rest of this century would reduce the malaria risk by just 0.2 percent.

On the other hand, we could spend $3 billion annually -- 2 percent of the protocol's cost -- on mosquito nets and medication and cut malaria incidence almost in half within a decade. Malaria death rates are rising in sub-Saharan Africa, but this has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with poverty: Poor and corrupt governments find it hard to implement and fund the spraying and the provision of mosquito nets that would help eradicate the disease. Yet for every dollar we spend saving one person through policies like the Kyoto Protocol, we could save 36,000 through direct intervention.

Of course, it's not just humans we care about. Environmentalists point out that magnificent creatures such as polar bears will be decimated by global warming as their icy habitat melts. Kyoto would save just one bear a year. Yet every year, hunters kill 300 to 500 polar bears, according to the World Conservation Union. Outlawing this slaughter would be cheap and easy -- and much more effective than a worldwide pact on carbon emissions.

Wherever you look, the inescapable conclusion is the same: Reducing carbon emissions is not the best way to help the world. I don't point this out merely to be contrarian. We do need to fix global warming in the long run. But I'm frustrated at our blinkered focus on policies that won't achieve it.

In 1992, wealthy nations promised to cut emissions to 1990 levels by 2000. Instead, emissions grew by 12 percent. In 1997, they promised to cut emissions to about 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2010. Yet levels will likely be 25 percent higher than hoped for.

The Kyoto Protocol is set to expire in 2012. U.N. members will be negotiating its replacement in Copenhagen by the end of 2009. Politicians insist that the "next Kyoto" should be even tougher. But after two spectacular failures, we have to ask whether "let's try again, and this time let's aim for much higher reductions" is the right approach.

Even if the policymakers' earlier promises had been met, they would have done virtually no good, but would have cost us a small fortune. The climate models show that Kyoto would have postponed the effects of global warming by seven days by the end of the century. Even if the United States and Australia had signed on and everyone stuck to Kyoto for this entire century, we would postpone the effects of global warming by only five years.

Proponents of pacts such as Kyoto want us to spend enormous sums of money doing very little good for the planet a hundred years from now. We need to find a smarter way. The first step is to start focusing our resources on making carbon emissions cuts much easier.

The typical cost of cutting a ton of CO2is currently about $20. Yet, according to a wealth of scientific literature, the damage from a ton of carbon in the atmosphere is about $2. Spending $20 to do $2 worth of good is not smart policy. It may make you feel good, but it's not going to stop global warming.

We need to reduce the cost of cutting emissions from $20 a ton to, say, $2. That would mean that really helping the environment wouldn't just be the preserve of the rich but could be opened up to everyone else -- including China and India, which are expected to be the main emitters of the 21st century but have many more pressing issues to deal with first.

The way to achieve this is to dramatically increase spending on research and development of low-carbon energy. Ideally, every nation should commit to spending 0.05 percent of its gross domestic product exploring non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, be they wind, wave or solar power, or capturing CO2emissions from power plants. This spending could add up to about $25 billion per year but would still be seven times cheaper than the Kyoto Protocol and would increase global R&D tenfold. All nations would be involved, yet the richer ones would pay the larger share.

We must accept that climate change is real and that we've helped cause it. There is no hoax. But neither is there a looming apocalypse.

To some people, cutting carbon emissions has become the answer, regardless of the question. Cutting emissions is said to be our "generational mission." But don't we want to implement the most efficient policies first?

Combating the real climate challenges facing the planet -- malaria, more heat deaths, declining polar bear populations -- often requires simpler, less glamorous policies than carbon cuts. We also need to remember that the 21st century will hold many other challenges, for which we need low-cost, durable solutions.

I formed the Copenhagen Consensus in 2004 so that some of the world's top economists could come together to ask not only where we can do good, but at what cost, and to rank the best things for the world to do first. The top priorities they've come up with are dealing with infectious diseases, malnutrition, agricultural research and first-world access to third-world agriculture. For less than a fifth of Kyoto's price tag, we could tackle all these issues.

Obviously we should also work on a long-term solution to climate change. Solving it will take the better part of a century and will require a political will spanning political parties, continents and generations. If we invest in research and development, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today.

But embracing the best response to global warming is difficult in the midst of bitter fighting that shuts out sensible dialogue. So first, we really need to cool our debate.

Bjorn Lomborg, an adjunct professor

at the Copenhagen Business School,

is the author, most recently, of "Cool It:

The Skeptical Environmentalist's

Guide to Global Warming."