{"id":19757,"date":"2015-03-09T13:05:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T17:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19757"},"modified":"2015-03-09T13:05:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T17:05:18","slug":"florida-bans-use-of-climate-change-by-state-agency-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/03\/09\/florida-bans-use-of-climate-change-by-state-agency-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida bans use of &#8216;climate change&#8217; by state agency: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reuters<\/em> is full of interesting news this morning.\u00a0 They have the article <a title=\"Reuters Story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/03\/09\/us-usa-florida-climatechange-idUSKBN0M51P520150309\" target=\"_blank\">Florida bans use of &#8216;climate change&#8217; by state agency: report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were told not to use the terms \u2018climate change,\u2019 \u2018global warming\u2019 or \u2018sustainability,\u2019\u201d attorney Christopher Byrd, who worked with the DEP\u2019s Office of General Counsel in Tallahassee from 2008 to 2013, told the Florida investigative reporting outlet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a title=\"Wikipedia article\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Karl_Rove\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>, an aide to Karl Rove issued this now well known explanation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you&#8217;re studying that reality\u2014judiciously, as you will\u2014we&#8217;ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that&#8217;s how things will sort out. We&#8217;re history&#8217;s actors \u2026 and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The War in Iraq and other events in the Middle East and elsewhere proved the aide to be wrong.\u00a0 At least in human affairs, what the aide said has some sense of plausibility.\u00a0 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?\u00a0 Could anybody be that stupid?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters is full of interesting news this morning.\u00a0 They have the article Florida bans use of &#8216;climate change&#8217; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19758,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions\/19758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}