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thatcrazycajunAs reported here in my local paper, where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (my Songbird's employer) is based, the following is a brief summary of what was redacted from written testimony on climate change and its impact on public health submitted to Congress this week by CDC head Dr. Julie Gerberding, MD:
The shorter version focuses on public health preparedness for climate change, including how the CDC is tracking diseases, doing heat-stroke modeling for cities to predict vulnerable populations and helping local officials plan for environmental emergencies. The draft version contained an additional six pages explaining why climate change is a public health concern. Deleted passages describe the expected impact of climate change, including new disease patterns and food and water shortages for some people.
The deleted testimony included predictions about the potential consequences of increased air pollution, the rampant growth of plants that cause allergies and the creation of environments that promote water- and food-borne disease. "Catastrophic weather events such as heat waves and hurricanes are expected to become more frequent, severe, and costly," the deleted section said.
Both Dr. G. and the White House hotly deny any censorship. But given the Bush Regime's quite well-documented history on climate change and other politically inconvenient science, where there's smoke...
ADDENDUM, 1:54P: Jay Bookman's column in the AJC today throws more wood on the fire by putting the lie, point by censored point, to Bush White House claims that the report was redacted because of conflict with the UN's recent climate change report. More proof of whatfilkertom has previously said in his blog, i.e., that these evil fucks don't even care whether they have clean air to breathe or clean water to drink as long as they have plenty of money to shelter from taxes.
The shorter version focuses on public health preparedness for climate change, including how the CDC is tracking diseases, doing heat-stroke modeling for cities to predict vulnerable populations and helping local officials plan for environmental emergencies. The draft version contained an additional six pages explaining why climate change is a public health concern. Deleted passages describe the expected impact of climate change, including new disease patterns and food and water shortages for some people.
The deleted testimony included predictions about the potential consequences of increased air pollution, the rampant growth of plants that cause allergies and the creation of environments that promote water- and food-borne disease. "Catastrophic weather events such as heat waves and hurricanes are expected to become more frequent, severe, and costly," the deleted section said.
Both Dr. G. and the White House hotly deny any censorship. But given the Bush Regime's quite well-documented history on climate change and other politically inconvenient science, where there's smoke...
ADDENDUM, 1:54P: Jay Bookman's column in the AJC today throws more wood on the fire by putting the lie, point by censored point, to Bush White House claims that the report was redacted because of conflict with the UN's recent climate change report. More proof of what
filkertom has previously said in his blog, i.e., that these evil fucks don't even care whether they have clean air to breathe or clean water to drink as long as they have plenty of money to shelter from taxes.
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