Michael Bastach reports that the White House wants doctors and other medical professionals to teach Americans about global warming and how climate change could make their health worse. At a summit the White House called to bring together health and medical professionals, academics, and other stakeholders to empower people and communities with the information and tools they need to protect public health in the face of climate change, Obama told medical professionals in a taped address that he needs "doctors, nurses and citizens, like all of you to get to work to raise awareness and organize folks for real change." The central message: doctors should warn their patients that global warming could make their health worse. "We need to engage medical students themselves," said Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy, the U.S. Surgeon General, "to demand the curriculum change" to prepare them for a warmer future."
Critics of the White House summit argued the event highlighted the collusion between the Obama administration and activist groups and called out the White house for teaming up with the American Lung Association (ALA) to promote the link between global warming and public health. "The involvement of the ALA in promoting and organizing today's White House summit on climate change and health is yet another sign that the Obama administration has been co-opted by outside pressure groups, and has politicized the EPA's decision-making process," wrote Karen Kerrigan, president of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council."
(Score: 2, Informative) by frojack on Saturday July 04 2015, @05:28PM
if you want to fix the population's beliefs about global warming, vaccinations, and things that matter - put people who are worthy of trust in charge.
And how is that supposed to happen when people are elected based solely on the color of their skin?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2015, @05:50PM
Watch out, in this strange new world, those kinds of comments can get YOU listed as a racist.
(Score: 2, Informative) by aristarchus on Saturday July 04 2015, @06:20PM
Labeled as a racist? Well, if the shoe fits, might as well call a spade a spade. Does a racist by any other name not smell as rank!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @12:10AM
Not only is the color of their skin an issue, but their genitals, their sexual orientation, and the god they worship are all considered "important issues" in determining who is electable. Only bigots make a big deal about the president being "black", or the possibility of the next one being "female", or that we have had "non-Christian" candidates in the past.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @11:29AM
Who was elected based solely on the colour of their skin? Do you really think that is why Obama was elected? Did you not look at the other options? Most of them were a lot worse, and the ones that weren't had no real chance at being elected anyway.