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State Employees Say Rules Prevent Open "Climate Change" Discussion In Florida
An anonymous reader writes "The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting has an article in the Miami Herald about there being certain words state employees have been ordered to avoid: "We were told not to use the terms 'climate change', 'global warming', or 'sustainability'," said Christopher Byrd, an attorney with the DEP's Office of General Counsel in Tallahassee from 2008 to 2013. "That message was communicated to me and my colleagues by our superiors in the Office of General Counsel."
We ban so many things these days. Try discussing the idea that racial differences go beyond the cosmetic and see how long you last at your job.
I often don't like the choices people make, but I like the fact that people make choices. That's why I'm a conservative.
Its not odd at all considering scientists participate in political activism (james hansen) and politicians push the science in question to further their own goals (al gore among others).
In fact, in 1988 i think it was, political operatives scheduled the introduction of global to the US congress on the historically hottest day of the year then cut the AC for congress in a poitical move of theatrics when scientist started alarming lawmakers of the impending doom that is the warming of the earth.
No, not odd at all considering.