Floriduh - Scott Claims No Global Warming Censorship, Public Health Paper Proves Him A Liar
By late January of this year, Elizabeth Radke figured she was pretty much done with Florida. She had already graduated from the University of Florida, where she had gotten her PhD in epidemiology. She had moved from the Sunshine State to the Washington area, where took a job at the Arlington County’s public health department. And her dissertation, which looked at how climate change in Florida had affected ciguatera — a commonly reported marine food-borne illness — was closing in on publication.
But then, on Jan. 27, a message popped into her inbox. Subject: “Paper Review.” And Radke realized she wasn’t through with Florida yet. In fact, she was about to get dragged into what has now become a national scandal over an alleged “unwritten policy” among some Florida state environmental offices that forbids the use of terms like “climate change” and “global warming” in official correspondence.
On Sunday, the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, which broke the news in a story that quickly ricocheted across the nation, connected the protocol directly to the office of Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican who has long voiced suspicion of man-made climate change despite overwhelming scientific consensus it exists — not to mention indications of rising sea levels in southeastern Florida. “I’m not a scientist” has been Scott’s standard response. “We were told not to use the terms ‘climate change,’ ‘global warming,’ or ‘sustainability,’” Christopher Byrd, an attorney with the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) from 2008 until 2013, told the investigative outfit. “That message was communicated to me and my colleagues by our superiors in the Office of General Counsel.”
On Monday, Scott and his office pushed back against the report. Scott was pressed hard by reporters. “It’s not true,” Scott said, according to the Miami Herald, declining to get into specifics. “Let’s look at what we’ve accomplished. We’ve had significant investments in beach renourishment, in flood mitigation. … I’m into solutions, and that’s what we’re going to continue to do.” He declined to say whether he thinks global warming is real, whether he’s concerned by it, or whether he’s preparing for it.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/10/why-this-florida-scientist-had-to-remove-the-term-climate-change-from-her-study/?tid=pm_national_pop
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me or the evidence?
