The White House significantly edited testimony prepared for a Senate hearing on the impact of climate change on health, deleting key portions citing diseases that could flourish in a warmer climate.
A draft of the testimony submitted for White House review shows that six pages of details about specific disease and other health problems that might flourish if the Earth warms were not delivered at the hearing.
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Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.
There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.
This post is the second of a two part series. Read the first installment, Unreported Emissions From Natural Gas Blow Up BC's Climate Action Plan.
Methane leaks from British Columbia's natural gas industry are likely at least 7 times greater than official numbers increasing the entire provinces' carbon footprint by nearly 25%. That's like putting 3 million more vehicles on BC's roads.
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PBS reports that it was Philip Cooney, former energy industry lobbyist, on behalf of the White House, who was making these changes to this report about the health effects of climate change.
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DeSmogBlog has reported on "denier Cooney" before [March 20, 2007] - eg. http://tinyurl.com/2ctlav
Cooney had resigned as chief of staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality in June 2007. I guess he is keeping in touch though...
The denial goes on and on, it is just stunning that it does, even at this late stage. Emissions keep rising too.
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