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Five Reasons for Obama to Sell Climate Change as a Health Issue
National Geographic ^ | June 25, 2013 | by Dan Stone

Posted on 06/25/2013 4:17:25 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

After five years of referring to climate change as a long-term climate and humanitarian problem, President Obama is trying a new strategy. In a speech Tuesday to sell a package of regulations to limit greenhouse gases from power plants, Obama will list the ways a warming planet impacts human health now, White House officials say.

The strategy may have legs.

The administration has directed several government agencies to work together on a wide-ranging effort to try to quantify the "social costs" of climate change, including health effects.

How is climate change expected to affect human health? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and climate experts illuminate the top five ways.

1) More heat waves, more heat-related deaths

2) More asthma and worse allergies

3) More mosquito bites and the diseases they carry

4) Stressed agriculture, questionable nutrition

5) Contaminated water spreading pathogens

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chickenlittle; climatechangefraud; climategate; dnctalkingpoints; failure; fearmongering; globalwarmingscare; heplayedonourfears; hoax; hysteria; junkscience; obamaclimatespeech; pravdamedia; pseudoscience; redscare; thegreenmenace; thegreenscare; tyranny

1 posted on 06/25/2013 4:17:25 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change is certainly a health issue in Australia.

It has got so cold, we are all about to get frost bite.


2 posted on 06/25/2013 4:18:39 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The LARGEST concentration of “greenhouse gases” comes from WATER, you idiots...


3 posted on 06/25/2013 4:18:58 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We’re all gonna die!!


4 posted on 06/25/2013 4:19:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: goodnesswins

Don’t drink the contaminated water that drains off the DC swamp, that’s for sure. And don’t breathe the gasses emanating from Capitol Hill.


5 posted on 06/25/2013 4:25:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

SPPI Book Presents the Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 - See more at: http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=685510#sthash.3c1gBpaf.dpuf

The Science and Public Policy Institute has released a ground-breaking book chronicling the many benefits of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The 55 benefits discussed are drawn exclusively on the peer-reviewed literature.

Many books and reports rail against mankind’s usage of fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil because of the carbon dioxide or CO2 that their combustion releases into the atmosphere.

Indeed, this phenomenon is routinely castigated in numerous print and visual venues as a result of the unproven predictions of catastrophic CO2-induced global warming that are derived from theoretical computer-driven simulations of the state of earth’s climate decades and centuries into the future.
- See more at: http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=685510#sthash.3c1gBpaf.dpuf


6 posted on 06/25/2013 4:28:13 PM PDT by Zeneta (No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Revolting cat!

- More heart attacks from mowing the yard after grilling half a cow
- More skin cancer from trips to the beach
- Lower exposure to colds and flu mean possibly lower immune response


7 posted on 06/25/2013 4:33:53 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Jim Robinson

There is a sexually transmitted disease called LIFE and it is lethal. Anyone that has it is gonna die sooner or later. Some have thought they beat it by living to be over 100 years in the end, but it was still terminal.


8 posted on 06/25/2013 4:35:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Reason #6

Get Benghazi and the other scandals off the agenda...

obama benghazi sleeping lazy dereliction of duty Obama las vegas benghazi lazy useless idiot

Obama: Benghazi bumps in the road

9 posted on 06/25/2013 4:38:39 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
When National Geographic (which is largely taken to be a pictorial magazine) has been repeatedly busted shopping images, how are we to take "science and health" NEWS items seriously from them when such news items are agenda driven?


10 posted on 06/25/2013 4:43:03 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: a fool in paradise

More people in the eastern states will freeze to death during harsh winters for lack of coal and oil than die of greenhouse gases in a hundred years. And die of NY heat in the summertime heat waves without air conditioning. Pampered American liberal idiots have no idea how rough it would really be without the luxuries, er, necessities (manufacturing, transportation, heat, cooling, food, water, electricity, etc.) provided by coal, gas and oil.


11 posted on 06/25/2013 4:47:56 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

I remember working in Massachusetts tech corridor in the 1980s and experiencing rolling blackouts in the summertime.

Can’t think things have gotten much better on the energy side (especially with the push to get people to charge their cars up day and night).

Computer companies don’t get much work done when the power is turned off.


12 posted on 06/25/2013 4:51:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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13 posted on 06/25/2013 4:58:07 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My fear?

Massive heat rash


14 posted on 06/25/2013 4:59:25 PM PDT by woofie
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To: a fool in paradise

That image is real, but it is taken during a Ham-sing, a dust storm from Arabia. Happens when the wind shifts. Sky turns orange, and it gets hotter than hell.


15 posted on 06/25/2013 5:00:20 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel

The pyramid was moved in the photo. Both are the same image. The one on the cover was shopped to fit the format.

They’ve also been busted running a picture of a herd of zebra which consisted of the same one shopped around to make more.


16 posted on 06/25/2013 5:03:17 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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17 posted on 06/25/2013 5:14:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Kinda hard to tell people what is affecting their health now when the globe has not warmed in 17 years. Is he gonna try to tell them how their health has been affected for the past 17 years that global warming has stopped ?

Why is everything out of DC a lie wrapped around a conspiracy ?

18 posted on 06/25/2013 6:51:05 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Five Reasons for Obama to Sell Climate Change Snake Oil as a Health Issue
19 posted on 06/25/2013 8:38:59 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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