CLIMATE CHANGE! GLOBAL WARMING! CLIMATE CHANGE! GLOBAL WARMING! UTERUS! UTERUS! UTERUS! OK, Republican Governor Rick Scott of Florida! Have the authorities come and arrest me! I dare you!

Gov. Rick Scott Banned Talk of “Global Warming”
and “Climate Change”

By: Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Monday, March, 9th, 2015, 8:05 am

The Miami Herald reported yesterday that though “Sea-level rise alone threatens 30 percent of the state’s beaches over the next 85 years,” the Florida Department of Environmental Protection have been ordered not to use the term “climate change” or “global warming” in any official communications, emails, or reports.

The cadaverous Gov. Rick Scott put this unwritten policy in place in 2011, giving them plausible deniability. They can say, as they are saying now, that they have no such policy, and they don’t, at least on paper:

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“We were told not to use the terms ‘climate change,’ ‘global warming’ or ‘sustainability,'” said Christopher Byrd, an attorney with the DEP’s Office of General Counsel in Tallahassee from 2008 to 2013. “That message was communicated to me and my colleagues by our superiors in the Office of General Counsel . . . It’s an indication that the political leadership in the state of Florida is not willing to address these issues and face the music when it comes to the challenges that climate change present,” Byrd said.
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Imagine that. Republicans unwilling to face facts. Whatever will be next?

This is one of the states by the way, you might remember, that also does not like the word uterus, though they don’t mind legislating the hell out of said body part:

Early in 2011 state Rep. Scott Randolph, D-Orlando, got in trouble in the Florida legislature for suggesting that his wife “incorporate her uterus” to stop Republicans “from pushing measures that would restrict abortions” as the Tampa Bay Times put it. The Republicans “told Democrats that Randolph is not to discuss body parts on the House floor.”

Apparently, uteruses, like climate change and global warming, disappear if they are not mentioned. But ignoring facts doesn’t change facts.

Okay, so climate change is real. It doesn’t get any more hardcore real than this. It’s not a popular topic here, nobody likes to read it, but there it is, and there is no getting around it. Whether we talk about it or not, it will affect all our lives, and the lives of our children in very drastic ways in the years to come. Their world will not be our world of plenty.

1.) It’s getting warmer (2014 was the warmest year since records began to be kept in 1880);

2.) Ocean temperatures are rising (part of the Pacific is warming at least 15 times faster than at any time in the last 10,000 years) and the more they heat up the less able to absorb C02 they become;
   
3.) The polar ice caps are melting at an “unprecedented rate” (Greenland and Antarctica are losing 500 cubic kms of ice annually);
   
4.) Sea levels are rising (since 1992 at the rate of 0.12 inches per year);

The cold, hard, undeniable fact is that our immediate prospects are bleak: nothing we can do at this point will save us from the consequences of what we have already wrought. It’s too late for that.

The consequences of global warming for low-lying coastal regions should be too obvious to repeat here. At Key West, according to NOAA, the sea level is almost 9 inches higher than it was a century ago. Even if we stop producing greenhouse gasses in 2016, sea levels will rise more than 1 meter. It’s a done deal.

And we are not going to stop producing greenhouse gasses next year.

The Florida Oceans and Coastal Council (FOCC)’s “Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise in Florida: An Update on the Effects of Climate Change on Florida’s Ocean & Coastal Resources” (December 2010) detailed these consequences, including effects on the state’s beaches, the barrier islands, the Everglades (well, Florida’s version of the Koch brothers want to destroy these anyway, so . . .), and even the salt-water intrusion of Florida’s Biscayne Aquifer, the source of 1.3 billion gallons of fresh water every day for Floridians.

According to Deutsche Bank, solar will be the dominant source of electricity by 2030, which is great news. On the other hand, the FOCC tells us, “Sea-level rise of as little as 3 to 6 inches may begin to compromise the effectiveness of the area’s coastal flood-control structures, reducing their capacity by as much as 20% to 40% by 2030.” Solar power won’t save Florida.

And we can point to the Syrian Civil War as an example of the effects of climate change. Complex systems collapse, contributed to by climate change and prolonged drought, brought about the complete collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations, which ought to be a lesson for our time.

So why is it that Florida Republicans think if you don’t say climate change it will go away?

“We were told that we were not allowed to discuss anything that was not a true fact,” said one former employee.

A “true” fact. Unlike an actual but unwelcome “fact” like science. In the conservative lexicon, “true” means “acceptable.” All science that is uncongenial to Republican ideology becomes “junk” science. Thus if you are against anti-environment money-making schemes like Keystone XL, you are anti-science.

Even more bizarrely, President Obama, who says climate change is the greatest threat facing us, gets labeled as a science denier by the man who put stupid back into the Republican Party, Bobby Jindal. Since he has a lot of low-lying real estate in his state too, Jindal might want to reconsider his position.

Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, was mocking:

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Democrats tell us they understand the world, but then they call climate change, not radical Islamic terrorism, the greatest threat to national security. Look, I think we all care about our planet, but melting icebergs aren’t beheading Christians in the Middle East.
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Maybe Priebus has learned to mock under water? If not, he’d better. Because Republicans can call sea-level rise “nuisance flooding” but I call a meter of sea-level rise more than a nuisance.

History will damn Rick Scott and Reince Priebus as the criminals they are. But none of that will save Florida.

Yeah! More censorship from the political right-wing nut jobs!!!

No! We can't say words like "climate change" or "global warming" and let's not forget the word "uterus" or else . . . we might get our mouths washed out with soap, get spanked, then pay heavy fines, and go to prison and get sent to bed without supper, get strapped down, then beaten and raped, or some shit like that!

Right? Right? Right?

Yeah! Naughty naughty! Mustn't say these naughty words! Bad scientists! Bad bad scientists! Spank! Spank!

OK, I'm just an ordinary citizen, and not a professional scientist speaking out in public. I'm just some science buff, who likes to read the science journals on line, and post comments about them on website forums.

So, I guess I can feel free to talk about climate change, global warming, and a woman's uterus, as I'm doing right now.

Well, I only briefly mention the word uterus because it's only briefly mentioned in the above article.

But this is mainly about climate change and global warming and sea level rises.

OK, I know I have asked this question many times before in other forum topics, but I'm going to ask it again.

When was the last time that a scientist was told to shut the fuck up???

Hmmmm . . . let's see now . . . no, please don't tell me . . . thinking . . . thinking . . . thinking . . .

Oh yes! Now I remember!

I believe it was sometime back in the 1600s when Galileo, the Italian astronomer had stated that it was the earth and the planets that revolved around the sun.

He really got in dutch with the Catholic church over that, because, Catholic church doctrine held that it was the sun and the planets that revolved around the earth, and that the earth was believed to be the center of the universe.

So, Galileo's proposal, that the earth and planets revolved around the sun was in conflict with church doctrine.

The first time he was summoned to appear before the Holy Office of The Inquisition, he was warned  to never publicly teach his theory about the sun being the center with the earth and planets revolving around the sun.

Another words, he was issued his official Shut The Fuck Up papers!

But, he persisted over the years, and eventually, he was summoned before the Holy Office again.

Yeah, he had to pack his Gucci bags and leave his home in Florance, Italy to make the long journey to Rome to appear before the Holy Office.

He stayed in a comfortable room, but he had to remove is regular clothes, strip down to his undergarments and don the white robe of the penitent, another words, someone who has sinned.

Then, as he appeared before the church officials, he bowed down, laying prostrate on the floor, to confess to his crime of heresy, and after many long hours of interrogation, he finally broke down, and recanted everything he had said about the earth and planets revolving around the sun.

Actually, it was a false confession made under extreme duress! He was emotionally, a broken man, too old and frail to keep on fighting anymore.

Whereupon, he was eventually allowed to go back to his own home in Florence, Italy where he was placed under house arrest for the remainder of his life.      

Yeah! He was told to shut the fuck up!

And now, here we are, about 400 years later, in the year 2015, and again, American Republicans are telling climate scientists to shut the fuck up about climate change and global warming and sea level rises!

Yeah! It kind of shows how far America has advanced! Right? Right!!!

OK, ya fucked up Republican retards!!!

I'm going to say a whole bunch of naughty words!

CLIMATE CHANGE!!! GLOBAL WARMING!!! SEA LEVELS RISING!!! OCEAN TEMPERATURES RISING!!!

THE EARTH IS 4.5 BILLION YEARS OLD!!! THE UNIVERSE IS ABOUT 13.8 BILLION YEARS OLD!!!

EVOLUTION IS A FACT!!! NO, NOT MERELY A BELIEF, OR A WORLD VIEW, BUT A FACT, BACKED UP BY EVIDENCE COLLECTED OVER THE PAST 150 YEARS SINCE CHARLES DARWIN!!! EVOLUTION IS A FACT!!!

CLIMATE CHANGE!!! CLIMATE CHANGE!!! CLIMATE CHANGE!!!

GLOBAL WARMING!!! GLOBAL WARMING!!! GLOBAL WARMING!!!

SEA LEVELS RISING!!! SEA LEVELS RISING!!! SEA LEVELS RISING!!!

OCEAN TEMPERATURES RISING!!! OCEAN TEMPERATURES RISING!!! OCEAN TEMPERATURES RISING!!!

WE HUMAN APES ARE THE CAUSE!!! WE HUMAN APES ARE THE CAUSE!!! WE HUMAN APES ARE THE CAUSE!!!

IF YOU DENY THIS, YOU ARE ME ENEMY!!! IF YOU DENY THIS, YOU ARE MY ENEMY!!!

YOU REPUBLICANS ARE THE ENEMY OF HUMANITY!!! YOU REPUBLICANS ARE THE ENEMY OF HUMANITY!!!

YOU REPUBLICANS ARE A DISGRACE TO HUMANITY!!! YOU REPUBLICANS ARE A DISGRACE TO HUMANITY!!!

UTERUS, UTERUS, UTERUS!!!

VAGINA, VAGINA, VAGINA!!!

OK, ya moronic Republican fuck-tards!!!

I shall post copies of this topic in other website forums, in my own web blog, and just sort of spread this around!

Go ahead! Call the authorities and have me arrested!!!

I DARE YA! I DARE YA! I DARE YA!

YEAH! DROP A DIME ON ME!

COME AND GET ME, MOTHER FUCKERS!!!      

Have a nice day!  

I'm outta here!!!