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Dear CARB,

Overall, we generally support the process and conclusions of the
Economic Analysis Supplment to the Proposed Scoping Plan but belive
that it is missing one key piece of informaiton related to the
enormous detrmental economic impacts of adaptation to and damage to
real estate assets and many sectors of our economy due to
unmitigated climate change. 

As discussed in the attached document, the content of the Next 10
Report (The new one just released in November, 2008 entitled
California Climate Risk and Response by David Roland-Holst, et al.)
estimates the range of the economic costs of adaptation and the
costs of economic damage to the State of California resulting from
unmitigated global warming.  We believe that much of the content of
this report should be included in the Economic Analysis.  While
some may express concern about possible small detrimental effects
to mitigate global warming in narrow segments of the economy, they
pale in comparison to the many orders of magnitude impact of not
acting aggressively now as explained in this report.  We believe
that the Economic Analysis Supplement is materially incomplete by
not including reference to this critically important information. 

This report is avaible at the Next 10 web site at
http://www.next10.org/research/research_ccrr.html.

Thank you for your kind consideration.

Sincerely,

Ray Pingle