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."

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Not like Florida has to loose

[Billly Gates]

Now if it were surrounded by water and flat that would be different

Re:this is just dumb

[Deadstick]

Perhaps they're confusing "climate change" with "Beetlejuice". Say it too many times...

Re:i'th Post

[knightghost]

Grow up Florida.

Perhaps the problem is the opposite - so many retired in that state.

5 words you cannot say in Florida?

[ramriot]

So as a Floridian federal employee I cannot say:-

"There is no such thing as human induced [climate change], or [global warming] as it was once called and my belief in this will last as long as the [sustainability] of a congressman's gravy train."

but I can say:-

"You climate deniers are full of S..t, and are definitely corrupt and in the pocket of the oil industry"

OK, I can go with that.

Good thing English is such a flexible language

[byuu]

climate change => weather modification, temperature shifting
global warming => worldwide heating, earth roasting
sustainability => maintainability, continuity
Florida => laughingstock of the world

Easy, right?

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[NickFortune]

Incorrect, not shocking. Evolution doesn't become any more or less true if it becomes a political issue in churches. The laws of physics don't change if you're a wealthy industry that can afford to fight back politically against physicists

Do you ever think that maybe, just maybe, we're not trying hard enough?

I say we form a commitment, here and now, to vote the Law of Gravity out of office at the next election and replace it with something more in tune with the 21st Century. We'll see how long it takes to get flying cars and Mars colonies once we have a law of gravity that works with us rather than against us.

Once we've done that, I expect we'll find the First Law or Thermodynamics will suddenly be willing to compromise its principles a little. And as for General Relativity, don't get me started!