Climate Change Scrubbed from Gov’t Report on Health and Climate Change

A new report finds that multiple references to climate change in a CDC study on climate change’s contribution to occupational hazards were removed without clear explanation.


The CDC described the changes as “planned updates.”

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Dittohead not! said:

Climate Change Scrubbed from Gov’t Report on Health and Climate Change





This is a site that invites you to contact your reps. You will have to sign up if you want to do so.

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Jack Hays said:

Good.

Apparently not a simple story.

"While President Donald Trump has sought to downplay climate change at various federal agencies, the changes in this case were made before he took office."

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Dittohead not! said:

If calling it a hoax perpetrated by China is "downplaying it" then that's correct.

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Jack Hays said:

I don't care about that nonsense. The important thing is the text was changed pre-Trump.

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Some suspect, however, that the changes were made by agency employees looking to keep the Obama-era, climate-focused program below the radar and avoid drawing a new president’s ire.

“What they’ve done is, they’ve tried to curtail the language and keep their heads down so they can continue doing the work they want to do,” said Jason Glaser, co-founder of La Isla Network, a group that tries to protect outdoor agricultural workers from kidney conditions tied to working in high heat. “To me, that’s a war of attrition, and eventually you lose.”

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Dittohead not! said:

After his election, but before his inauguration. I hadn't noticed that. Seems odd that it's just coming out now, and it seems even more odd that it was changed at all. One possible explanation (from the link within the link in the OP)




Seems plausible at least.

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Jack Hays said:

I don't think we have the whole story.

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