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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."
what are we better than? the truth?
the GOP is the party of stupid. who said that?
the GOP said that:
http://thehill.com/video/in-th...
you haven't noticed a connection between incredibly ignorant, antiscience statements and the GOP? oh i'm sure you can find a democrat who said something stupid. and i can find ten republicans for every one odd democrat
do you want to bet on that?
let me get started:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rep...
http://www.scientificamerican....
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08...
that's off the top of my head
how many more do you want?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
It's kind of irrelevant what the Florida government or the Koch Brothers Family of Astroturfers think. The insurance industry accepted the reality of AGW quite some time ago...
So you're saying the insurance industry has acquiesced to accepting a reason to raise rates and cut coverage, or otherwise avoid risk that might, might arrive in 100 years. Gravy.
"Love" that you managed to work in a "Koch Brothers" reference, relevent or not. Any chance you'll be working in Soros in the future given his widespread and toxic activism?
Are insurnace companies that do business in Florida regulated by the state of Florida, like they are in every other state? Just curious.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
We might not die from it, but a lot of horrible things can happen without everyone dying. It would be scary if local climates suitable for agriculture move to areas with poor soil, no infrastructure, and no history of farming. It will also suck should pests start to move closer to people and unprepared-crops, spreading disease and lowering yields in the process. Saying we shouldn't consider scary things scary because everyone won't die is rather, well, strange, to say the least.
Are we all going to die from it? No, so quit making it seem scary.
The overwhelming majority of our grandchildren and great-grandchildren are going to die - not directly of global warming, but of the war, pestilence, famine and general destruction which will ensue when coastal cities flood, the area of agricultural land (much of which, globally, is also low lying) reduces, and the temperate bands move towards the poles.
Not everyone will die, no. And probably the big die-off won't happen in the lifetime of anyone now alive. But if we don't halt global warming soon, the population of the Earth is going to fall very sharply, probably by an order of magnitude.
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.