Reuters is full of interesting news this morning.  They have the article Florida bans use of ‘climate change’ by state agency: report.

Former employees of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) detailed the unwritten policy in interviews to the non-profit news agency, which reported the ban on Sunday in an article published by the Miami Herald and other state media.

“We were told not to use the terms ‘climate change,’ ‘global warming’ or ‘sustainability,’” attorney Christopher Byrd, who worked with the DEP’s Office of General Counsel in Tallahassee from 2008 to 2013, told the Florida investigative reporting outlet.

According to Wikipedia, an aide to Karl Rove issued this now well known explanation.

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

The War in Iraq and other events in the Middle East and elsewhere proved the aide to be wrong.  At least in human affairs, what the aide said has some sense of plausibility.  However, Florida seems to have taken this thought to new levels of implausibility. Do they really think that the laws of physics are changed by what politicians allow people to say?  Could anybody be that stupid?