Al Gore is hosting his own cut down version of a Centers for Disease Control Climate Conference which was cancelled in the wake of the Trump victory.
CDC’s canceled climate change conference is back on — thanks to Al Gore
It turns out there will be a conference in Atlanta next month about climate change and its effects on public health. It just won’t have the federal government behind it.
The reason? Former vice president Al Gore.
“He called me and we talked about it and we said, ‘There’s still a void and still a need.’ We said, ‘Let’s make this thing happen,’ ” said Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. “It was a no-brainer.”
News of a revived conference comes days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly canceled its long-planned Climate and Health Summit in the lead-up to the change in White House administrations. Benjamin called the move a “strategic retreat” given the climate skepticism of the incoming administration.
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The cancellation got the attention of Gore, who organizers said hatched the idea to salvage some semblance of the gathering.
“Today we face a challenging political climate, but climate shouldn’t be a political issue,” Gore said in a statement Thursday. “Health professionals urgently need the very best science to protect the public, and climate science has increasingly critical implications for their day-to-day work.”
It’s not clear whether CDC employees who were scheduled to attend the agency-planned event will be allowed to attend its replacement at the Carter Center. A CDC spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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I wholeheartedly support Al Gore’s private intervention. People in the USA have a constitutionally guaranteed freedom to associate. What they do not have is a right to expect the federal government to fund their club meet ups.
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The end is near, the rats are vacating, and the leader refuses to admit it and is going down with the ship…………
Sure CDC, NIH, NOAA, NCDC and EPA employees will be allowed to attend the conference.
On their time and dime.
They must file “Annual Leave” request forms. There are limits on how many in a department can be on leave at one time.
All costs, transportation, meals, hotel rooms, taxis, etc. must be borne by the employee.
All of those government reservations at the Hyatt, Sheraton, Doubletree, etc. will likely be cancelled as Federal employees seek cheaper places to stay.
Trump should also check with State Governors’ to ensure they know the Federal Government is not hosting and that it may be unwise for State employees to attend.
One does wonder exactly what Gore plans to present for all of the cancelled Federal presentations?
Turning the cancelled CDC conference into another of Gore’s marathon climate presentations would really go over big with normal CAGW climate believers; (if any can be called normal).
I’ll bet the golf courses are packed those days.
Agree… posted similar below before I read your post.
“I wholeheartedly support Al Gore’s private intervention. People in the USA have a constitutionally guaranteed freedom to associate.”
Agreed. We should permit these guys freedom of association and freedom of speech in their own time and on their own tab without harassment and victimisation, even if they once harassed and victimised those who disagreed with them.
If the Centers for Disease Control are to retain any future credibility and funds, they should stick to their mandated objectives and competencies.
I think you might want to use regain instead of retain.
We should have a conference on techniques for proving or disproving AGW.
No conference is necessary. The IPCC claims a nominal sensitivity of 0.8C per W/m^2. For an 0.8C increase in temperature, surface emissions must increase by 4.3 W/m^2 while each of the 240 W/m^2 of accumulated forcing each contributed only 1.6 W/m^2 to the surface emissions. How can the next W/m^2 of forcing increase surface emissions by 4.3 W/m^2. while the last one only increased surface emissions by no more than 1.6 W/m^2?
How do we know the upper limit for the sensitivity of the last one? It’s the T^4 relationship between temperature and emissions, where each degree of warmth takes exponentially more total forcing power to sustain, thus the incremental sensitivity must be less than the average sensitivity.
So, in an effort to cut carbon emissions, shouldn’t this be a video conference instead of an actual meeting?
Preferably where the whole world gets to watch via video link, and ask questions.
James Hansen’s doppelganger is sitting under a brown hat two rows up from Hillary in this gigapixel image. Or maybe climate alarmism really is politicized and that’s not a doppelganger.
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/01/politics/trump-inauguration-gigapixel/
These “conferences” are really just a few academic hot-heads – who clearly were not getting the support from serious academics they thought ought to exist. Trump was just the last straw and now Al Gore is desperately trying to prop up his climate money making scam.
“climate shouldn’t be a political issue” — as it is obviously a religious issue.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have that kind of pocket change available on demand.
Yes Al. Green is good. Very very good.
Who is going to finance it? The Koch brothers, perhaps? Oh, wait, …..
same as many of you
climate not political?
a no brainer..
oh indeedy on both
roflmao!
and the CDC..pretty much on wobbly ground
keeping shtum might be wise;-)
The world is waiting for fascinating new scientific video clips by Al Gore.
And the very best science health workers need is not the sort that is pedaled by the likes of Mann et al. I would hate to think that my meds were the result of science done to the same quality as ‘climate science’.
The CDC health workers need to improve their science on communicable diseases – their core reason for being. Climate, gun control, etc. is NOT in their mandate.
I wonder how much money Gore will make out of this gesture. He’s not known to have done anything in the climate hoax business without improving his bank balance.
Climate should not be a political issue? Who made it a political issue? Algore! Talk about pot and kettle!
Any Public Employee going to the now privately funded conference should be required to take a vacation day to attend… and should not be allowed to represent the government at the conference… meaning there should not be any displays of government IDs, logos, office symbols, letterhead, presentation materials and other governmental property.
I certainly hope the Trump administration sees to it that any government personnel attending adheres to the general policies of attending a political event as a private citizen versus a public employee.
hocuspocus13 – ‘Will Al be jt-setting there..???’
No – I’m sure he’ll be cycling all the way, silly….
Otherwise he could be branded a HYPOCRITE….
A one-day climate snooze-fest starring Al Bore, Climate Stuporman? Who’d want to go to that?
This is more fun than I expected. They are chasing rabbits in the wrong directions during the first 100 days. That includes the biased press.
Al Gore stayed in divinity school just long enough to master the shamanistic practice of manipulating the ignorant with fear and guilt. May God have mercy on his soul.
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He reminds me of an old tent revivalist preacher I ran across as a kid.
“……..CDC’s canceled climate change conference is back on — thanks to Al Gore
It turns out there will be a conference in Atlanta next month about climate change and its effects on public health…….”
Are they kidding me? Do Al & company realize what kind of swings in temperature we get here in Wisconsin each year with the change in seasons? And they’re worried about a few tenths of a degree change in — what—30 years and its affect on our health?
I mean, we can go from a polar vortex with temps below zero (Fahrenheit) in January to heat waves in the 90’s six months later in July. And that kind of thing happens every year! Guess what? We are all still alive and kicking here in Badgerland (except that the Packers’ loss last Sunday still hurts. You HAD to mention Atlanta in the post, didn’t you?).
These bimbos need to get a life. Or something.
I looked at the WaPo link and whilst the article is pure propaganda , some of the comments appeared to verge on the sceptical which was surprising , but not displeasing .
So there is just over 2 weeks to organise a major scientific conference . now how will that work out do you think?
Lets consider the speaker schedule .
Start and opening speeches : 9.30 – 10.00 am , say
4 presentations, 30 mins each with Q/A: 10.00 – 12.00 am (no comfort /coffee break)
Lunch and opportunity to mingle and look at
student poster presentations : 12.00- 1.30 pm
4 presentations : 1.30 – 3.30 pm
comfort break/afternoon tea: 3.30 – 4.00pm
Closing address and summary
from conference chairman : 4- 4.30 or 5.00pm (allowing time to get to airports )
Who will submit :
No time for prepare new presentations on new data so it will be some of the originally scheduled authors
or someone rehashing a presentation or paper previously presented at an earlier conference .
Would have been better to wait a few months and give time for a properly organised conference if it is so important .
Al Gore has run climate change as his version of The Clinton Foundation….and it has worked beautifully to enrich him. The Gore effect has worked its magic in business as well as climate. If Al Gore is involved in a business it promptly collapses while Gore walks away with his cut. Current TV, Fisker autos, Chicago carbon trading exchange, Kliner Perkins green energy investments, etc.
All massive failures and all hyped by Gore as the rock solid future. We are lucky to have Al on the other side.
Actually, his version is better because it is all strictly within the law.
My friend Peter Bocking once said that if Al Gore’s hair were set on fire it would provide enough heat and light for a small English village.
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