Tuesday, March 10, 2015

In Florida officials are banned from using terms "Climate Change" or "Global Warming" because you know that will change everything.

Florida before that phrase they are not allowed to use, and after.
Courtesy of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting:  

The state of Florida is the region most susceptible to the effects of global warming in this country, according to scientists. Sea-level rise alone threatens 30 percent of the state’s beaches over the next 85 years. 

But you would not know that by talking to officials at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the state agency on the front lines of studying and planning for these changes. 

DEP officials have been ordered not to use the term “climate change” or “global warming” in any official communications, emails, or reports, according to former DEP employees, consultants, volunteers and records obtained by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. 

The policy goes beyond semantics and has affected reports, educational efforts and public policy in a department that has about 3,200 employees and $1.4 billion budget.

I guess it's kind of like if you don't say the word "cancer" nobody dies, and if you don't say the word "morons" nobody knows how stupid the conservatives are.

Everyday I say "Well nothing could surprise me now." And everyday I am wrong.

6 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:09 AM

    You know what's funny about the stupid Floridian government being unable to say 'global warming' or 'climate change'???

    "Climate change" is a term invented by Bush II so that the RW could take scary "global warming" off of everyone's minds while they were putting Big Oil in charge of the environment. Since Bush has gone so has the "climate change" directive and we've gone back to (the proper term) "global warming".

    So what those total morons in FL are doing has been done before. They are Bush III.

    Republicans are so Animal Farm.



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  2. Anonymous4:48 AM

    I just don't understand how their whack job governor has the power to legislate that a phrase or words cannot be used. How does he have power over the DEP's use of terms that are a part of their job?

    I don't get it.

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  3. hedgewytch7:43 AM

    And here I thought that the GOP was the champion of Freedom of Speech - oops, guess not. Not if you are going to want to let people know stuff that the Corps don't want you to know.

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  4. I'm sure the Real Estate Lobby was instrumental in pressuring the administration to gag all government reports.

    Can't sell that ocean front property for prime prices when it will be under water in 40 years.

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  5. Anonymous1:18 PM

    While they are at it, they should ban people from saying 'blub, blub, blub' as the go underwater.

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