"Political Heat; Global Warming"

Expect any new Adminstration to "Turn up the Heat" on US Efforts to Address Climate Change
from The Hartford Courant (editorial):

Why did the White House cut by half the congressional testimony on global warming drafted by Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? Six of the 12 pages were deleted from Ms. Gerberding's draft because they did not "comport with the science," Dana Perino, the president's press secretary, said recently. There was no censoring, she said; the changes were necessary to match the science in a U.N. report on global warming.

...You can't keep a secret in Washington. Portions of the original text have already been leaked. One excised part had Ms. Gerberding warning that "CDC considers climate change a serious health concern." She warned of possible respiratory problems, the spread of diseases, and food and water shortages for some people. "Catastrophic weather events such as heat waves and hurricanes are expected to become more frequent, severe and costly," the draft version also said.

Those statements, however, don't square with the administration's more relaxed approach toward global warming. It continues to argue that the problems can be addressed voluntarily by individual nations.

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