The Climate Change Censor
It is a race against the eraser. By the end of the Bush administration, we could all be rubbed out.
Utterly unashamed, the White House heavily deleted yet another major document on global warming. It blanched out the Senate testimony of Julie Gerberding, director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In the report that she delivered last week, she said climate change "is anticipated to have a broad range of impacts on the health of Americans and the nation's public health infrastructure."
Gerberding said that the CDC "can serve as a credible source of information on health risks and actions that individuals can take to reduce their risk."
What was missing, according to a draft testimony made available to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's website by the Physicians for Social Responsibility, were these far more direct conclusions:
"The public health effects of climate change remain largely unaddressed. CDC considers climate change a serious public health concern."
(Obviously, that had to go because that raised the question of why the White House left such a serious concern unaddressed.)
