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Topic: Whitehouse and health benefits of climate change
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| UGoGirl | Posted – 10/26/2007 9:58:30 PM | show profile Just when you think this administration couldn't possibly be further out of step with ... well, everything, you read something like this. Just wondering how starvation, homelessness, drought, and disease are good for the health? **** On Wednesday, spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters that US experts were trying to determine "what are going to be the health benefits and the health concerns of climate change, of which there are many." "...many people die from cold-related deaths every winter. And there are studies that say that climate change in certain areas of the world would help those individuals," On Thursday, President George W. Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, which steers the US government's environmental policies, rode to her defense, citing findings by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "It is important to consider both health risks and health benefits of climate change. We rely on the best available science to guide our policy decision process," said spokeswoman Kristen Hellmer. |
| Printingman | Posted – 10/26/2007 10:58:49 PM | show profile | email poster I don't now wha people are all up in arms for. I'm hoping my Belle Harbor house which is 2 blocks from the beach suddenly becomes beachfront property |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 10/27/2007 12:10:36 PM | show profile Pman enjoy that month you'll have of beachfront property before it starts lapping up at your front door. The WH is totally insane... note that they even first mention health benefits, then health concerns, as if it's half this half that. Do they really think we're THAT stupid? In reality it's 200 people may live who would have otherwise died, but oh yes 2,000,000,000 are going to die who would have otherwise lived. It's beyond absurd. |
