Outta Sight, Outta Mind … No, Really Out Of Their Damn Minds
So Florida has a cure for climate change.
Officials in Florida have been banned from using the terms “climate change” and “global warming” in official communications, according to a report published by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting on Sunday.
Former officials and employees from the state Department of Environmental Protection told FCIR that they were warned not to used the terms in their work after Gov. Rick Scott (R) took office in 2011.
And it’s worked because everywhere else in the world there’s climate change, but in Florida there’s no climate change. Just ask any official.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
I suggest the phrase “thermal evolution.” That incorporates two concepts that republicans hate.
1They could do like Edith Bunker with the cling peaches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoIMvOUM3po
2Vickie, you just made my morning with the mmmmm!!
I’d never seen that before.
3I suppose it’s good to get your head buried in the sand now, while the sand is still (somewhat) above the waterline.
4Yeah, I was thinking cling peaches, partly because whoever came up with this idiocy needs to have some cans bounced off their head.
I wish I could say this takes to new depths the GOP strategy (except NC did it already) of “We’re going to deal with climate change by sticking our thumbs in our ears and humming real loud until it goes away.” Or they drown. Parts of Miami are already getting used to being underwater at high tides.
In fifty years, and probably sooner, the next generation is going to be asking us, “What the **** were you thinking?!”
5The good news is that soon all of Florida will be beachfront property. What’s left of it.
http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/florida.shtml
6Republicans do love to ‘win’ arguments by simply changing what words mean. Remember Freedom Fries? Death panels?
It’s so much easier than actually defining issues and solving problems. And it keeps the base scared of the wrong things.
7Maybe we can scare the northern two thirds of Florida’s population to the south end of the peninsula wherein it will snap off from the continent and float down to Cuba. Maybe we can convince most folks south of the Mason/Dixon line to join them.
8On the “changing names” front, we have the new GOP governor of Maryland, who’s trying to get rid of a fee that helps reduce water pollution runoff before it gets into the Chesapeake Bay. They’ve managed to rename that the “rain tax.” Yeah, more filth in the Bay is what Maryland’s economy needs, not to mention the environment.
9When Florida starts to go underwater, are officials allowed to change the name of their state to Sea World? Maybe just Sea State.
They could berm up the last of the dry land on the border with Georgia, put in bleachers, and charge admission. And don’t forget, the price of admission is not a tax.
10I think “rising sea level” is the other one they aren’t allowed to use.
11It is becoming clear to me in my old age that the 1860-1865 war was not “won”. The Southern armies merely moved underground and became guerilla bands and fought on. While a large part of the rest of the country moved into the 1900s and 2000s, these people emotionally and mentally voluntarily remained in 1840. It is too bad too. We can’t really give them away but who wants to keep them either?
12WHAT!
13Florida Guv Dumb F$#@ just signed an executive order for all low income and elderly Floridians to immediately grow a set of gills and learn to live underwater. Meanwhile all their former possessions were distributed equally between Charles and David Koch.
14Florida elected little Jebbie.
15Interesting! If it ain’t sinkholes that eat every inch of Florida alive, its incremental water tables! IWT! How ’bout that! Never wanted to go there anyway. Always figured it was an overgrown sandspit for the most laden with mosquitos, gators and pythons. All three of those entities can kill you.
16Micr, to continue your history summation, when the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements began, the racist southern Democrats sought refuge in the Repugnican’t party and that’s where they’re all holed up today. They’re living in the “good ole days” when white men called all the shots, whether they knew what they were talking about or not. Those days are numbered.
17dumbass dubya will point to rising sea levels as proof trickle down economics works. This is one rising tide that will float all ships.
18It would be laughable if it weren’t so serious. Florida may end up being the all-out physical proof of climate change in the not-too-distant future and the Repugs will literally drown in their own ignorance.
19Just today I was reading in a civil engineering newsletter that Boston is thinking ahead in regards to rising sea levels. There is a contest going on among engineers and engineering students about how Boston should handle higher sea levels in the year 2100 and they have chosen 9 finalists entries. The one I found most intriguing is building a series of canals through parts of the city and using them to divert the higher waters. So the people in the most liberal state are thinking ahead to the turn of the century and how they will cope with higher sea levels, while the idiots in Florida are sticking their fingers in their ears and saying, “La la la, I can’t hear you!.” It figures.
20And these are the yahoos that protest political correctness!! Methinkest they doth protest too much! Good effen grief! Maybe they should open up their little bibles and read about those people that kept on marryin and buryin and ignoring the warnings about the impending flood. They all drowned too, if I remember the story correctly! And it’s THEIR blinkin book! Mercy.
21You see, scientific concepts such as climate change and global warming do do not conform to Gov. Rick Scott’s rightwing ideology. Therefore they must not be used in official communications. For conservatives, ideology always trumps reality. It all makes sense…if you’re insane.
22Look, y’all. You don’t have to live here. You should see it from my end. Dumb, dumber, and ooga-booga!
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