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Talking About Climate Change Banned in Florida?
There's a common rule of thumb in the news business that if you hear a story that sounds too good or too ridiculously weird to be true, it's probably from Florida. This is true of stories about politics, it's true of stories about sports, and it's most definitely true of stories about crime. But it's also true of stories about climate policy.
Case in point: the shocking new report from the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (FCIR). According to that report, officials working for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, or DEP, "have been ordered not to use the terms 'climate change' or 'global warming' in any official communications, emails, or reports.
That's right - the Florida agency most responsible for fighting climate is banned from talking about climate change!
This insane policy apparently started in 2011 when Republican Medicaid scam artist Rick Scott took office as governor, and, according to the FCIR, it's had a real impact on the DEP's ability to prepare for the coming climate disaster.
Now, while banning environmental officials from talking about the most important environmental issue of our time is bad policy for any state, for Florida, it's downright suicidal. All apologies to LeBron, but in the future no one will take their talents to South Beach because South Beach won't exist.
Florida is ground zero for global warming here in America, and if global warming keeps up its current breakneck pace, much of Florida's coastline will simply disappear.
Scary? You bet, which only goes to show how ridiculous Rick Scott's don't-say-anything policy about global warming really is.
-Thom
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