White House Censoring is the Same Old Story

Late yesterday, news broke that the White House “watered down” Senate testimony from the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at a Senate hearing, also taking place yesterday. Why? Because the director was going to discuss the negative links that climate change is having on public health.

So someone in the White House is censoring information regarding global warming in an attempt to tone down the scale of it. Sound familiar? It should.

GAP and Rick Piltz blew the whistle two years ago when a White House official was caught editing climate science documents, in an attempt to play down the link between human activity and global warming. Besides being headline news everywhere, this was also a partial focus of a 60 Minutes piece. Oh, and the gentleman who did was caught editing back in 2005? Former oil lobbyist Phil Cooney, who left the White House a few days later to join ExxonMobil.

Piltz now runs Climate Science Watch, a GAP program focused on holding public officials accountable for the ways climate science data is used. Earlier this morning, CSW posted the CDC Director’s original testimony prior to being censored.

-- Dylan Blaylock