Tuesday, January 31, 2017

The CDC canceled a climate change event. Al Gore will host it instead.

Julia Belluz · Thursday, January 26, 2017, 4:18 pm

Gore to Trump: "Climate shouldn’t be a political issue."

Remember on Monday, when the Washington Post broke a story that officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had abruptly canceled a long-scheduled meeting on the health risks of climate change? If you missed it, the CDC didn’t give a reason why, but it was clear it had to do with the new Trump administration’s doubtful stance on climate change.

Well, the event is back on with a new host: former Vice President Al Gore, of An Inconvenient Truth fame.

According to a press release, Gore, along with the American Public Health Association, the Harvard Global Health Institute, and a number of other health and environment groups, will hold a one-day meeting on February 16 at the Carter Center in Atlanta — a scaled-down version of the original three-day CDC event.

Read more
http://www.vox.com/2017/1/26/14402234/cdc-climate-change-conference-al-gore-trump

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