In contrast to the recent Nobel peace price awarded to Gore and the IPCC, and this week’s Planet in Peril on CNN, this comes as a horrific dissapointment:
Scientists Denounce Global Warming Report ‘Edits’
Public Health Experts Say Edits Represent Censoring of Science
from the article:
The problem, according to the unedited version of the testimony, is that climate change is likely to have a significant impact on health — and not only due to heat waves and disease epidemics.
The CDC report highlighted other issues addressed in the IPCC report, including how extreme weather events such as floods and hurricanes will cause deaths, large-scale population displacement and contamination of drinking water. Other concerns included how increases in temperatures encourage the formation of ground level ozone, the primary ingredient of smog which can cause permanent lung damage and aggravate chronic lung diseases, such as asthma.
November 7th, 2007 at 11:01 am
the bush white house sickens me. so much for being stewards of the earth. they got their buck and are leaving the rest of us to pay the bill. a couple of weeks ago, someone who has a degree in history had this to say about bush - ‘his administration will be remembered as the worst in history.’ That says a lot…