Senate Democrats reject White House’s reason for editing global warming report

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http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/333526.html

WASHINGTON | Several Democrats on Thursday challenged White House officials’ claim that they removed parts of proposed congressional testimony on global warming because the material conflicted with a U.N. scientific panel.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, released a paragraph-by-paragraph comparison of the phrases that the White House removed and the U.N. panel’s report this year on how climate change affected public health.

The comparisons showed striking similarities.

Both raised almost identical concerns: heat stress on vulnerable populations; the likelihood of respiratory illnesses from increased air pollution; the spread of waterborne infectious diseases; and more injuries from severe weather events such as wildfires.

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White House press secretary Dana Perino said the deletions were made because John Marburger, who heads the White House Office of Science and Technology, and his staff raised concerns that the sections were not in line with the findings of the U.N. panel.

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