Posted on 01/27/2017 11:54:56 AM PST by PROCON
Climate activist and former vice president Al Gore is teaming up with the American Public Health Association and other organizations to hold a summit on climate change and health that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention canceled earlier this week.
The CDC quietly called off the summit after President Trump's inauguration, telling reporters it was "exploring options to reschedule the meeting." The scientific community has accused CDC officials of canceling the event out of fear of the Trump administration.
The CDC falls under the Department of Health and Human Services, and Trump has nominated Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), who has expressed skepticism about the scientific consensus on climate change, to lead the department.
“They tried to cancel this conference but it is going forward anyway,” Gore said in a statement on the event. “Today we face a challenging political climate, but climate shouldn’t be a political issue. Health professionals urgently need the very best science in order to protect the public, and climate science has increasingly critical implications for their day-to-day work.
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Just think of the horrific carbon imprint this conference will have.
It costs plenty to keep that mansion(s) of manbearpig’s maintained.
He loves to hear himself talk. Go Al, Go.
Dying to know what is in the secret tapes. Anybody got WP? $$
he’s got no power to do anything for them though... why would they?
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