You don't need to know the health risks of global warning, apparently.

According the Associated Press, the White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health. The testimony was cut from 14 pages to four, though some of the redacted material appears to have come up in questions.

The deletions directed by the White House included details on how many people might be adversely affected because of increased warming and the scientific basis for some of the CDC’s analysis on what kinds of diseases might be spread in a warmer climate and rising sea levels, according to one official who has seen the original version.

Same old, same old.

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What could the Administration possibly be afraid would happen if the voters were informed?

By Hank Roberts (not verified) on 23 Oct 2007 #permalink

Ironically,according to the counts on Google News, the story of the censorship is much more widely-reported than the content of the testimony. If there had been no censorship, the topic would have made barely a ripple in the media.