When the Bush administration redacted a report from the CDC last
October to change it from focusing on the health risks of
climate change to focusing on the health benefits, I think a lot
of us were left asking what those health risks might be.
Actually, that’s not true. Most of us could more easily figure
out those health risks than figure out what they were thinking
in making the CDC testify on the health benefits of climate
change. But wait, that's not true either. We could figure that
out, too. As has become par for the course with this
administration on climate change they were thinking about
maintaining the status quo. The U.N. is already sounding alarm
bells about food shortages related to climate change and the
recent decrease in rice yields would bare that out. We have seen
trauma to certain pollinator populations like bees and bats,
some of which is most certainly related to climate change. The
World Health Organization is now saying unequivocally that
“Climate change is a significant and emerging t