Sabo v. Fiskars Brands, Inc.

Filing 61

ORDER granting in part and denying in part 53 Motion to Compel. Signed by Judge Candy W. Dale. Attachments: # 1 Appendix 1, # 2 Appendix 2, # 3 Appendix 3 (klw)

Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Deaths in China - NYTimes.com

HOME PAGE

TODAY'S PAPER

VIDEO

MOST POPULAR

Log In Register Now Help

U.S. Edition
Search All NYTimes.com

Asia Pacific
WORLD
AFRICA

U.S.

N.Y. / REGION

AMERICAS

BUSINESS

ASIA PACIFIC

TECHNOLOGY

EUROPE

Page 1 of 4

SCIENCE

HEALTH

SPORTS

OPINION

ARTS

STYLE

TRAVEL

JOBS

REAL ESTATE

AUTOS

MIDDLE EAST

Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Premature Deaths in
China

Log in to see what your friends are sharing
on nytimes.com. Privacy Policy | What’s
This?

Log In With Facebook

What’s Popular Now
Target Says Data
Was Stolen From
40 Million
Shoppers

Al Goldstein,
Who Made Porn
Dirtier, Dies at 77

Aly Song/Reuters

Shanghai in January. Researchers said the toll from China’s pollution meant the loss of 25 million healthy years in 2010.
By EDWARD WONG
Published: April 1, 2013

40 Comments

BEIJING — Outdoor air pollution contributed to 1.2 million
premature deaths in China in 2010, nearly 40 percent of the global
total, according to a new summary of data from a scientific study on
leading causes of death worldwide.

FACEBOOK
TWITTER

Related
Times Topic: China
Cost of Environmental Damage in
China Growing Rapidly Amid
Industrialization (March 30, 2013)
As Pollution Worsens in China,
Solutions Succumb to Infighting
(March 22, 2013)
Chinese Editor Suspended for
Article on North Korea (April 2,
2013)

Connect With
Us on Twitter
Follow
@nytimesworld for
international
breaking news and
headlines.
Twitter List: Reporters and Editors

1.

2.
3.

REPRINTS

“We have been rolling out the India- and China-specific
numbers, as they speak more directly to national leaders
than regional numbers,” said Robert O’Keefe, the vice
president of the Health Effects Institute, a research
organization that is helping to present the study. The

EDITORIAL

DOT EARTH

Signs of Baby Steps on Stanching Wasteful
Flaring of Natural Gas

PRINT

The data on which the analysis is
based was first presented in the
ambitious 2010 Global Burden of
Disease Study, which was published in
December in The Lancet, a British
medical journal. The authors decided to break out numbers
for specific countries and present the findings at
international conferences. The China statistics were offered
at a forum in Beijing on Sunday.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

The Toll From Three Deadly Diseases

EMAIL
SHARE

RECOMMENDED FOR YOU

No. 13 Oregon Survives Stubborn Ole Miss
in Overtime

GOOGLE+
SAVE

Figured another way, the researchers
said, China’s toll from pollution was
the loss of 25 million healthy years of
life from the population.

MOST EMAILED

4.

LETTER

A Fee on Carbon Pollution
5. Justices Hear Case on Cross-State Pollution
Rules
6.

SINOSPHERE

Novel Tactics for Dealing with Pollution
7.

THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS MINUTE

Times Minute | Tighter Pollution Rules
8.

SINOSPHERE

Looking on the Bright Side of Bad Air
9.

DOT EARTH

Climate Scientists, Then and Now,
Espousing 'Responsible Advocacy'
10.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/world/asia/air-pollution-linked-to-1-2-million-death... 12/20/2013

Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Deaths in China - NYTimes.com

Readers’ Comments
Readers shared their thoughts
on this article.

organization is partly financed by the United States
Environmental Protection Agency and the global motor
vehicle industry.

Read All Comments (40) »

Page 2 of 4

Chinese Carbon Market Opens to a Busy
First Day
Log in to discover more articles
based on what you‘ve read.

What the researchers called “ambient particulate matter
pollution” was the fourth-leading risk factor for deaths in
China in 2010, behind dietary risks, high blood pressure and smoking. Air pollution ranked
seventh on the worldwide list of risk factors, contributing to 3.2 million deaths in 2010.

What’s This? | Don’t Show

By comparison with China, India, which also has densely populated cities grappling with
similar levels of pollution, had 620,000 premature deaths in 2010 because of outdoor air
pollution, the study found. That was deemed to be the sixth most common killer in South
Asia.
The study was led by an institute at the University of Washington and several partner
universities and institutions, including the World Health Organization.
Calculations of premature deaths because of outdoor air pollution are politically
threatening in the eyes of some Chinese officials. According to news reports, Chinese
officials cut out sections of a 2007 report called “Cost of Pollution in China” that discussed
premature deaths. The report’s authors had concluded that 350,000 to 400,000 people die
prematurely in China each year because of outdoor air pollution. The study was done by
the World Bank in cooperation with the Chinese State Environmental Protection
Administration, the precursor to the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

Watch Now: Fashion in San
Francisco's Mission
ALSO IN VIDEO »

Bill Cunningham | A little seasoning
Anatomy of a Scene: "American Hustle"

There have been other estimates of premature deaths because of air pollution. In 2011, the
World Health Organization estimated that there were 1.3 million premature deaths in cities
worldwide because of outdoor air pollution.
Last month, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, based in Paris,
warned that “urban air pollution is set to become the top environmental cause of mortality
worldwide by 2050, ahead of dirty water and lack of sanitation.” It estimated that up to 3.6
million people could end up dying prematurely from air pollution each year, mostly in
China and India.
There has been growing outrage in Chinese cities over what many say are untenable levels
of air pollution. Cities across the north hit record levels in January, and official Chinese
newspapers ran front-page articles on the surge — what some foreigners call the
“airpocalypse” — despite earlier limits on such discussion by propaganda officials.

Ads by Google

what's this?

Fun Schrodinger's Cat Tee
Rock this tee like Sheldon Cooper,
nerdy, awesome and 100% soft cotton
www.snorgtees.com

23andMe: Genetic Testing
Learn Valuable Health & Ancestry
Information. Buy Now - Only $99.
23andme.com/GeneticMapping

High Gas Bills?
Check out PG&E's Winter Gas Tips &
Save On Your Winter Energy Bills!
www.pge.com/WinterTips

In February, the State Council, China’s cabinet, announced a timeline for introducing new
fuel standards, but state-owned oil and power companies are known to block or ignore
environmental policies to save on costs.
A study released on Thursday said the growth rate of disclosure of pollution information in
113 Chinese cities had slowed. The groups doing the study, the Institute of Public and
Environmental Affairs, based in Beijing, and the Natural Resources Defense Council, based
in Washington, said that “faced with the current situation of severe air, water and soil
pollution, we must make changes to pollution source information disclosure so that
information is no longer patchy, out of date and difficult to obtain.”
Chinese officials have made some progress in disclosing crucial air pollution statistics.
Official news reports have said 74 cities are now required to release data on levels of
particulate matter 2.5 micrometers in diameter or smaller, which penetrate the body’s
tissues most deeply. For years, Chinese officials had been collecting the data but refusing to
release it, until they came under pressure from Chinese who saw that the United States
Embassy in Beijing was measuring the levels hourly and posting the data in a Twitter feed,
@BeijingAir.
Last week, an official Chinese news report said the cost of environmental degradation in
China was about $230 billion in 2010, or 3.5 percent of the gross domestic product. The
estimate, said to be partial, came from a research institute under the Ministry of
Environmental Protection, and was three times the amount in 2004, in local currency

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/world/asia/air-pollution-linked-to-1-2-million-death... 12/20/2013

Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Deaths in China - NYTimes.com

Page 3 of 4

terms. It was unclear to what extent those numbers took into account the costs of health
care and premature deaths because of pollution.
A version of this article appeared in print on April 2, 2013, on page A9 of the New York edition with the headline: Early
Deaths Linked to China’s Air Pollution Totaled 1.2 Million in 2010, Data Shows.
SAVE

EMAIL

SHARE

Try unlimited access to NYTimes.com for just 99¢. SEE OPTIONS »

40 Comments
Readers shared their thoughts on this article.
ALL

READER PICKS

Lucas

NYT PICKS

Newest

Comments Closed

Beijing

What the Chinese government needs to do is provide decisive leadership to
improve the relationship each and every Chinese person has with nature. As an
environmentalist who has run various grass roots campaigns, I estimate that
70% of Beijing chuck -- no, drop -- garbage, anywhere and everywhere, even
along the Great Wall. That is the fairly inert, but revealing, tip of the iceberg.
For years the Chinese have trashed their own home, and now there's a billion
doing it........so the government cannot improve the situation by itself, only the
billion can........Maybe the chronic levels of Beijing scum in January will be the
trigger....living here, i can only hope so. .......
April 3, 2013 at 5:53 a.m.

SC

RECOMMENDED

1

TX

China has been the biggest fan of America. It is more capitalist than US. It has
blatantly copied everything that US did to rise as a global leader. It is facing the
same problems that US faced in late 19th and early 20th century. Its time
China starts copying America's solutions to environmental problems. As for
India, it looks more towards UK and Europe for inspiration and development,
and can get some clues from the Brits to clean up the environment. Maybe
India can outsource this job to the Brits, and improve UK's unemployment
problem.
April 2, 2013 at 7:48 p.m.

RECOMMENDED

1

READ MORE COMMENTS

Get Free E-mail Alerts on These Topics
Air Pollution

Deaths (Fatalities)

China

Environment

Ads by Google

what's this?

Brain Training Games
Challenge memory and attention
with scientific brain games.

www.lumosity.com

INSIDE NYTIMES.COM
ART REVIEW »

OPINION »

SPORTS »

BOOKS »

BUSINESS »

OPINION »

Gordon Brown:
Stumbling
Toward the
Next Crash
Most of the problems
that caused the 2008
financial crisis have not
gone away.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/world/asia/air-pollution-linked-to-1-2-million-death... 12/20/2013

Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Deaths in China - NYTimes.com

A Legendary Dealer’s Eagle
Eye

© 2013 The New York Times Company

Top Prospects Decide
College or N.H.L. Path

Site Map

Privacy

Your Ad Choices

Advertise

No Literary Horse Race,
Just Books We Like

Terms of Sale

Terms of Service

Page 4 of 4

Fans Criticize Suspension of
‘Duck Dynasty’ Star

Work With Us

RSS

Help

Op-Ed: John Boehner’s
Betrayal

Contact Us

Site Feedback

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/world/asia/air-pollution-linked-to-1-2-million-death... 12/20/2013