CDC abruptly cancels long-planned conference on climate change and health

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

With little warning or explanation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently canceled a major climate change conference that had been scheduled for next month in Atlanta.

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.

“Unfortunately, we are unable to hold the Summit in February 2017,” CDC officials wrote, adding that the agency is “currently exploring” whether it could reschedule the event later in the year.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/23/cdc-abruptly-cancels-long-planned-conference-on-climate-change-and-health/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.05fbd0354780

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Elections have consequences...

[GliderGuider]

1. And so it begins.

[machoneman]

3. Yep!

Shut down all the trumpenfuher doesn't like.

[MBS]

13. Yeah.

[Charles Bukowski]

2. "Yeah but... Bernie wuz cheated, so I'm voting for Jill. I'm voting with my conscience. "

"Progressive revolution here we come!" - Bernie Busters

[nycbos]

4. Yup yup yup

[herding cats]

5. The entire wold will suffer for the stupidity a minority of American voters.

Vast consequences, indeed.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. No, they won't. They'll walk right around us and never look back.

We will be the ex-world leaders in scientific research. Scientists in other nations will be disappointed in what we have done, but they'll assume the position that we used to hold regardless.

Because that's their job.

[MBS]

14. yup.

It's really a travesty.

[progree]

18. The NASA and NOAA climate work will take a long time and huge expense for other countries

to fund and get up to speed on.

[Cryptoad]

6. First time ever that ,,,,

I have not had a fire in my wood stove every day in Jan,,,,,, but there ain't nuttin going on with the Climate. Alt-Fact

[notdarkyet]

7. Believe!

Maybe Mira Lagos will be first to drown from sea rise. Maybe then he might believe.

[padfun]

8. Hey!! I miss those dirt clods and oil slicks in my water anyways

n/t

[Doreen]

9. They probably figured dictator would see to it that it got shut down so

they just did it themselves.

[Pantagruel]

10. Resist!!

"While Donald Trump was being sworn in, hackers managed to get their hands on US climate data and backed it up onto servers housed in Europe. They did this because they feared that Trump would get rid of all this data, and judging from how his transition team deleted all mentions of “climate change” from the White House website, they were absolutely correct."

[Pantagruel]

12. Trump knows

"Donald Trump says he is “not a big believer in global warming.” He has called it “a total hoax,” “bullshit” and “pseudoscience.”

But he is also trying to build a sea wall designed to protect one of his golf courses from “global warming and its effects.”


The New York billionaire is applying for permission to erect a coastal protection works to prevent erosion at his seaside golf resort, Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Ireland, in County Clare.

A permit application for the wall, filed by Trump International Golf Links Ireland and reviewed by POLITICO, explicitly cites global warming and its consequences — increased erosion due to rising sea levels and extreme weather this century — as a chief justification for building the structure.

The zoning application raises further questions about how the billionaire developer would confront a risk he has publicly minimized but that has been identified as a defining challenge of this era by world leaders, global industry and the American military. His public disavowal of climate science at the same time he moves to secure his own holdings against the effects of climate change also illustrates the conflict between his political rhetoric and the realities of running a business with seaside assets in the 21st century.

“It's diabolical," said former South Carolina Republican Rep. Bob Inglis, an advocate of conservative solutions to climate change. “Donald Trump is working to ensure his at-risk properties and his company is trying to figure out how to deal with sea level rise. Meanwhile, he’s saying things to audiences that he must know are not true. … You have a soft place in your heart for people who are honestly ignorant, but people who are deceitful, that’s a different thing.”

[progree]

17. +++-#-#-#-#------ THIS

damn thing isn't letting me put in caret symbols

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. tRumpistas think ignorance makes alt-facts which makes a new reality. Doesn't work that way. . nt

[YOHABLO]

16. I was watching the hearing of the Dept. of Interior nominee

Representative Ryan Zinke (R-MT) Sen. Al Franken questioning him was amazing.how Rep Zinke backtracked. Check it out on C-Span 'Interior Secretary Confirmation Hearing, Part 1'

[dalton99a]

19. Climate change is now verboten

[Blue Idaho]

20. Trump and Republicans censor science to benefit big business.

This should surprise absolutely no one. The same sinister forces are using Trump as a sock puppet the same way they did W - they are both nothing more than useful idiots.

[yardwork]

21. I am so very, very angry with everyone who let this happen.

Not just the people who voted for Trump, but the people who refused to help defeat him. I will never forgive. Their actions are unforgivable.

[CottonBear]

22. I work at a state university: staff can't discuss climate change w/ public

without the express permission of the office of the VP of our division.

This message just came down from the VP for the division of the university which my workplace is part of. We can't discuss anything with the public or press without prior permission from higher ups. My environmentally based work brings me in contact with the general public on a daily basis.

Welcome to Trumpestan. 😳