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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:655-657
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

Editorial

Climate change and health: information to counter the White House Effect

AJ McMichael

Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK. E-mail: tony.mcmichael@lshtm.ac.uk

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Within two months of assuming office, George Bush openly reneged on his electoral commitments to reduce the nation's industrial carbon dioxide emissions and withdrew the US from the international Kyoto Protocol, forged in 1997 and which seeks to slow global climate change. These things were done, he says, in the interests of protecting the nation's economy and workers. They were also done, of course, to pay off several powerful private-sector interests—although few people expected the political debt-settling to be quite so blatant.

There may well be, however, a silver lining to this cloud of continuing greenhouse gases from American cars, power-plants and factories. Bush claims that the science of climate change is flawed and unconvincing. He asserts that action taken now would be premature and prejudicial to the US national interest. These several ill-informed claims will have a cathartic effect on the public debate. They will force us all to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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