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Re:Skeptical Scientists Urge World To 'Have the Courage to D... by sethjohn on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @02:16PM (#88342)
There was no '5 year window', but the discount rate was a subject of much debate. Actually, to get climate change out of last place, they had to apply a much smaller discount rate than for any other subject.

I would argue that the consequences in breakdown of African civil society due to a continuing AIDS epidemic will have a similarly long-term consequences as climate change...and thus a similar discount rate should apply to both.

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