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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This looks like a big marketing ploy… I one had heard of the CDC’s conference; it was doomed to obscurity, but the cancellation due to the EVIL TRUMP, then the saving by Gore, now all the Trump haters are aware and supporting the event.
CDC02 is not disease control or containment or science or public protection.
Mr. Gore has the money to spend – acquired through some questionable means. That said, it is a common thread that many causes of the left, climate change foremost among them, survive only because government or special interest money goes to support them. Absent funding from Mr. Gore, Mr. Soros and the federal government, the climate change issue would barely reach the back pages of the newspaper.
Just make sure no Federal employee attends in an official capacity or spends a dime of taxpayer money on attending.
Just what is the life expectancy of those bread crumbs anyway ?
If they were really concerned about CO2 in the atmosphere and polutants derived from the burning of fossil fuels then they would hold their meeting over the Internet and not in Atlanta. The technology is already in place. There are many good reasons to be conserving on the use of fossil fuels but climate change is not one of them. There is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate but our supply of fossil fuels is finite and burning them up just as quickly as possible is not a good idea. The alarmist community needs to do a better job in conserving on the use of fossil fuels. On this web site people are meeting everyday and discussing climate change without burning up additional fossil fuels in unnessary travel. This site appears to be open to all, world wide, 24/7.
“Today we face a challenging political climate, but climate shouldn’t be a political issue” That would be a lot more convincing if a politician wasn’t saying it.
I can’t wait to see the next “has-been” who crawls out of the woodwork to try and grab fame by dissing Trump. So far, we have Jane Fonda, Al Gore, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson. It’s just a “has-been” hit parade. The progressives really are the party of the ancients.
Al Gore.
A joke not worth repeating.
Al Gore hosting the conference pretty much discredits the whole thing, which is appropriate.
OMG Gore is beyond creepy. His time never materialized no matter how many lies he told. Gore believes in only one thing–HIMSELF !
As a good capitalist, Gore never misses a money-making opportunity.
I did not see the date when this private event was scheduled. This would be good to know for this of us here because it will likely turn cold and we should have a blizzard or another ice storm.
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I hope he’s going to pay for it instead of the taxpayer.
The climate conference is back on? Hosted by Al Gore? In Atlanta next month? Is this another test of the “Gore Effect”?