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US government abruptly cancels climate change summit shortly before President Donald Trump's first day
Former director says CDC may have decided climate change 'not a winnable battle'
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cancelled a major climate change summit just a couple of weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as president.
The federal agency, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, unceremoniously and abruptly sent out emails calling it off during the first two weeks of January.
One climate change expert has speculated it could be “self-sabotage” and a former CDC director has said that sometimes the agency is “subject to external political pressure”.
Mr Trump has previously called climate change a hoax and his White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus has said the president believes global warming a “bunch of bunk”.
The White House deleted its global warming wepbage on the day of inauguration.
It was replaced with a 361-word policy titled America First Energy Plan.
“Sometimes the agency is subject to external political pressure,” said ex-CDC director Howard Frumkin, who also said he did not bother buying a plane ticket to the meeting once Mr Trump was elected, speaking to E&E News.
“Sometimes the agency self-censors or pre-emptively stays away from certain issues. Climate change has been that issue historically.”
The two-day Climate & Health Summit conference, earmarked to take place in Atlanta from 14 February, was expected to explore the “translation of science to practice”.
An employee at the National Indian Health Board, a CDC partner, told the Huffington Post it was “cancelled on those dates”.
A second worker told the website it was called off on “the first or second week of January” and that it was planned for “months and months”.
The second employee reportedly said the conference could be folded into an American Public Health Association summit in November.
Partners included the American Public Health Association, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, and National Association of County and City Health Officials.
In a stunning upset, Americans elected Republican Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in the wee hours of the morning November 9.
With control of the presidency, House, Senate, and at least one Supreme Court seat to fill, the GOP will have the opportunity to make sweeping changes in the next four years.
The positions Trump and his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton had on environmental issues couldn't be more different.
Most notably, she accepts climate change as a human-caused reality, while he does not.The scientific debate about climate change has ended, largely because it's been an obvious, observable reality for decades now that humans are causing warming global temperatures — and the host of problems that come with them.
Climate change
At the first presidential debate September 26, Clinton brought up her and Trump's differences on climate change. Here's how the exchange unfolded:
CLINTON: Some country is going to be the clean- energy superpower of the 21st century. Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it's real.
TRUMP: I did not. I did not. I do not say that.
CLINTON: I think science is real.
TRUMP: I do not say that.
As many news organizations pointed out after the debate, Trump tweeted in 2012 that "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive."
He has tweeted dozens of times about how he does not accept the overwhelming scientific evidence that climate change is real. You can read all of his tweets that have mentioned "climate change" or "global warming" here.
Trump wants to dismantle the Paris Agreement that sets targets to reverse the worst effects of global warming, which nearly 200 countries agreed to last December.
In response to a question about his views on climate change on ScienceDebate, Trump implied that the US shouldn't waste "financial resources" on climate change and should instead use them to ensure the world has clean water, eliminate diseases like malaria, increase food production, or develop alternative energy sources.
"There is still much that needs to be investigated in the field of 'climate change,'" he said. "We must decide on how best to proceed so that we can make lives better, safer and more prosperous."
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http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-climate-change-global-warming-environment-policies-plans-platforms-2016-10
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