This article talks about how the government is not expressing to the general public all of the aspects and potential harms of global warming. Dr. Julie Gerberding, a government expert on the health effects of global warming sent a long testimony to the government. This testimony that originally was 12 pages long was “edited” and then cut to 6 pages. The text that was cut during editing was talking about health effects such as waterborne and animal transmitted diseases. The White House denies censoring her testimony.
I believe that this is kind of just like our government. They censor important information that the public needs to know about. Without this information most of the general public is unaware of all of the serious side effects to global warming. I mean I know that most everyone knows it’s melting the ice caps and the planet is starting to have an overall warmer temperature but that’s about all that everyone knows. They don’t put together that the water warming could cause more standing water which could lead to more mosquitoes and they could potential spread blood borne pathogens. There are many other ways that humans as well as animals can become sick because of global warming that isn’t just solely because of skin cancer.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1675550,00.html
author: H. Josef Herbert
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