You might conceive a very low - lying state regularly bang up by hurricane would be worried aboutrising seas and warmer oceans powering up bigger tempest . If you cogitate this , however , you would be completely wrong . Because the state of Florida is not disturbed about global thaw . Not a bit . And to show you just how not worried they are , they ’ve banned any employee from the Department of Environmental Protection from even using the word “ climate modification ” or “ global thaw . ” Because nothing says lack of concern like censorship .
To be fairish , the proscription appears to have no official position . It has n’t even been written down , and a interpreter for the regulator say the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting ( FCIR ): “ There ’s no insurance policy on this . ” However , as Tom Cruisereminded us in " A Few full Men,“policies do n’t have to be written down to have military group .
Nor has regulator Rick Scott explicitly expressed his disbelief in human involution in global heating , say “ I ’m not a scientist . ” But when a grouping of scientists met with Scott , at their postulation , to excuse climate science to him , he listened but require no questions and gave no meter reading of a change of heart .
However , FCIR has had former employees , consultants and voluntary state them the formula is realise in the department with 3,200 staff . “ We were assure not to use the term ‘ climate alteration , ’ ‘ globular warming ’ or ‘ sustainability , ’ ” attorney Christopher Byrdtold FCIR . “ That message was communicated to me and my fellow by our superior in the Office of General Counsel . ”
FCIR ’s source say the instructions go back to 2011 after Scott was inaugurated and name his own serviceman , Herschel Vinyard Jr. , as DEP manager .
“ It ’s an reading that the political leadership in the res publica of Florida is not unforced to plow these issue and confront the music when it comes to the challenge that climate variety present , ” said Byrd .
In some states , the issue of climate change may be hard to discover so far , but Miami Beach is now experiencingunprecedented implosion therapy , drink water blood line are beingcontaminated by saltand the state ’s tourist - attractingcoral reefs are dying .
Despite its abundant sunshine , Florida is lag behind not just California and Nevada when it comes to installing solar power , butfreezing Massachusetts as well , thanks to a want of state backup . The land has even made it illegal for homeowners torely entirely on electricity they produce themselves .
In an echo of the more famous scene from the aforementioned film , it seems that Florida ’s legislatorscan’t address the ( inconvenient ) true statement .
H / TThe Guardian
