{"id":49784,"date":"2015-03-09T03:59:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T09:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/the-science-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T12:42:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:42:57","slug":"the-science-that-dare-not-speak-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/the-science-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.html","title":{"rendered":"The Science That Dare Not Speak Its Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida officials have passed on through the ranks that, under Gov. Rick Scott&#39;s administration, nobody&#39;s supposed to use the terms&quot;global warming&quot; or &quot;climate change&quot; in anything, even scientific research. Even (or especially) in the state Dept. of Environmental Protection.<\/p>\n<p><i>&ldquo;We were instructed by our regional administrator that we were no longer allowed to use the terms &lsquo;global warming&rsquo; or &lsquo;climate change&rsquo; or even &lsquo;sea-level rise.&rsquo; Sea-level rise was to be referred to as &lsquo;nuisance flooding.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#39;s very helpful, thanks, Gov. Scott.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102356721871221463140\" oid=\"102356721871221463140\">George Wiman<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/state\/florida\/article12983720.html#storylink=cpy'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/uBpLwGTcAvRHvaTALLM-HqssrlEtubzikULlwJMHueZQk_O-kyM_3VNab5drYhhcWNYGQvYXvXcD4fkdBePI70pniAMT792nA1oVwOoSUZVdN9WF0iIoee47zjXfOAC_jnGBF6sgMfnBGb5Dy2nZ1_RcnmQp-Cvgt8CC9TB0GwW8Hw4RBZkloG8WBQg4_NCt0qc=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/state\/florida\/article12983720.html#storylink=cpy'>In Florida, officials ban term &#8216;climate change&#8217;<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nState environmental officials ordered not to use the terms &ldquo;climate change&rdquo; or &ldquo;global warming&rdquo; in any government communications, emails, or reports.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/C5QvicV4884'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida officials have passed on through the ranks that, under Gov. Rick Scott&#39;s administration, nobody&#39;s supposed to use the terms&quot;global warming&quot; or &quot;climate change&quot; in anything, even scientific research. Even (or especially) in the state Dept. of Environmental Protection. &ldquo;We were instructed by our regional administrator that we were no longer allowed to use the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/the-science-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Science That Dare Not Speak Its Name&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,748,9,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-politics-law","category-writing-and-language","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130738,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/23\/climate-change-action-for-me-but-not-for-thee.html","url_meta":{"origin":49784,"position":0},"title":"Climate Change Action for Me but not for Thee","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-May-16 9:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump has railed against climate change, global warming, rising sea levels, and all that other stuff, and has continued to do so to rousing applause at his rallies and twitter stream. 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