Gentle Reader –
Just as Trump was to be inaugurated, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost their spine. It is appropriate to re-post this as we have seen in the past several months – in Australia which appears to be the Canary in the coal mine – severe drought, then horrific fires, and now dust storms of the degree seen in Netflix’ Messiah.
It is not an exaggeration to note that while our Planet is dying, Trump and his enablers repeatedly plunge their daggers into her chest.
Read this piece carefully. The spread of disease – mosquito and tick borne – will be seen first, and it will not be pretty. The behavior the scientists were concerned about has happened…
AJL
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From: Brady Dennis. 23 January, 2017. The Washington Post.
“…The Climate and Health Summit, which had been in the works for months, was intended as a chance for public health officials around the country to learn more about the mounting evidence of the risks to human health posed by the changing climate. But CDC officials abruptly canceled the conference before President Trump’s inauguration, sending a terse email on Jan. 9 to those who had been scheduled to speak at the event. The message did not explain the reason behind the decision…”
“…APHA’s [American Public Health Association] executive director, Georges Benjamin — who was scheduled to be a keynote speaker at the CDC summit next month — said agency officials decided to preemptively call off the event, rather than risk running afoul of an incoming president who has repeatedly called climate change a “hoax” and has nominated climate change skeptics to his Cabinet…”
“…fears the move will set a precedent of government officials self-silencing, in part over fears of reprisal or loss of funding, rather than standing behind the established science around climate change…”
“…Among the threats: Millions more deaths caused by extreme heat. More frequent outbreaks of diseases transmitted by ticks and mosquitoes…”
“…’If anyone doesn’t think this is a severe problem, they are fooling themselves’…”
