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 White House censors CDC's speech to Senate |
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Found as "Now with 50 percent less truth"
 |  | WHEN THE top public health official of the United States addressed the Senate last Tuesday on the health impact of global warming in this country, the senators - and the public - had a right to expect Julie Gerberding's full, unvarnished thoughts on this important issue. That's not what they got. In another case of the White House censoring what the public learns about climate change, the administration cut her testimony in half.
As a result, Gerberding, who heads the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, did not tell senators, as she had planned to, that "the public health effects of climate change remain largely unaddressed." Nor did the senators learn that areas in the northern part of the country "will likely bear the brunt of increases in ground-level ozone and associated airborne pollutants. Populations in Midwestern and Northeastern cities are expected to experience more heat-related illnesses as heat waves increase in frequency, severity, and duration."
All of that information was included in the six pages stricken from Gerberding's original draft of 12 pages. The White House says it made the deletions because the information "didn't align" with a report this year from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In response, Senator Barbara Boxer of California released a comparison of the UN report and phrases stricken from the Gerberding draft. Both raise the threat of heat stress on vulnerable populations, increased respiratory diseases, and more waterborne infectious diseases.
This is not the first time the White House has muzzled government researchers who have raised concerns about global warming or pointed the way to addressing it. After NASA scientist James E. Hansen said in 2005 that greenhouse gas emissions were creating "a different planet," his superiors tried to control his appearances and limit his interviews.
In 2002, the White House made the Environmental Protection Agency drop a chapter on the risks of climate change from an annual EPA report that for six years had included such information. In 2003, the EPA did its best to bury an analysis by staff members showing that a proposal to cap carbon dioxide emissions by Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman would not seriously damage the economy.
Recently, the Bush administration has been more willing to acknowledge the role of manmade emissions in the warming of the planet, while still shrinking from mandatory actions to deal with the problem. By watering down the views of a top official like Gerberding, the White House hopes to reduce pressure in the public and Congress for a carbon cap or tax that would force limits on emissions. But this is a case of what we don't know can hurt us. The Senate should bring Gerberding back to give her full testimony. |
"Nor did the senators learn that areas in the northern part of the country "will likely bear the brunt of increases in ground-level ozone and associated airborne pollutants." lol They are associating Ozone with airborne pollutants. Not that I advocate the censorship of her speech, but perhaps the Senate was spared after all.
http://www.ozoneforhealth.com/ozone1.html
| | What is ozone?
Ozone is three atoms of oxygen
Ozone is not smog
Smog is mostly man-made
Ozone is made by the sun and oxygen
Ozone is nature’s way of cleaning the environment
Ozone is not smog. Listen to the news and you’ll think ozone is air pollution or smog. It is not either one. The name "ozone" is derived from the Greek word "ozein" which means "to smell". Ozone is a bluish, water-soluble gas with a distinctive smell. It made of three atoms of oxygen and occurs naturally in nature. It is formed when oxygen and ultraviolet light interact high in the stratosphere. |
http://www.oxygenmedicine.com/ozoneandsmog.html
| | Is Ozone Really the Culprit?
The so-called "ground level ozone" (called this to differentiate it from ozone in the upper atmosphere - the "ozone layer") that is said to be the "main culprit" in smog is really a collection hydrocarbons - CO² CO, and SO² - that react with UV rays from the sun to form nitric oxides (NOX), halogenated by-products, and lead and sulfur compounds. These composites do indeed cause offensive odors, aggravate respiratory problems and burn eyes. But it is NOT the ozone that is the true villain. Ozone naturally forms not as a true component of smog but, more accurately, as a means of eliminating it. As the level of VOCs and particulate rises in the air, the ozone level rises as Nature herself tries to clean up man's mess!
If you remove the manmade components of smog - the VOCs and industrial particulates - then you simply have a natural process where the ozone and nitrogen dioxide are normalized to safe and healthy levels. When you add a large amount of man-made hydrocarbons to the equation, then the amounts of nitrogen dioxide and ozone are artificially increased.
The main reason that ozone gets the label of "Public Enemy Number One" is that while man-made hydrocarbons are very complex and as such quite difficult to measure, ozone is very easy to accurately measure. Consequently, ozone has long been used as an indicator for the severity or presence of smog because as the levels of the true components of smog rise, so does the level of ozone.
By conveniently placing the onus on ozone, government and industry are effectively relieved of the responsibility for the millions of pounds of toxins released into the air every year. Rather than taking steps to control the real culprit, we are actually allowing our government to shoot the messenger - good guy ozone. |
| | SMOG LIES FROM YOUR EPA:
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Economic Analysis and Census Bureau
Smog is formed when volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emitted from a variety of sources combine to form ozone. The formation of ozone from VOCs and NOx is accelerated by sunlight and heat, thus making smog more pervasive during warm weather months. In California, VOCs and NOx are emitted from numerous sources including cars, trucks and buses, power plants, industrial facilities, aviation, agriculture, small engines such as lawn mowers and the use of solvents and other chemicals.
(ED. Here, the EPA is sneakily implying that smog is equivalent to ozone, redefing the term in the worst Orwellian way. Then they get their media whores to repeat it over and over in news reports etc., and, as any good propagandist knows, a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth to most people. These Madison avenue techniques are topped with a good portion of Nazi and Communist brain washing methods. The American people are being programmed into slavery and death. (Ozone has been used around the world for over 50 years to cure many so-called “incurable” conditions that are repressed in the USA!! Amazing but true.) |
Note how the Ozone (O3) levels rise as a reaction to the pollution.
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