In North Carolina not onley were the links removed but the employees were each told in a personal metting not to reference "climate change" or "global warming" in any communications. This was given verbally so there would be no offical record when the questions would arise from the media.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/0 ... s-removed/At some point in the last two months, The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) removed links and documents containing information about climate change from its website, according to a report in WRAL News.
The DENR’s Division of Air Quality apparently removed information about climate change that had been available on the front page, including a full page of information and resources about greenhouse gases that no longer exists, WRAL’s report said. Also missing is a 100-page report on possible economic impacts of greenhouse gas mitigation, and the state’s 118-page Climate Action Plan, according to WRAL.
http://fcir.org/2015/03/08/in-florida-o ... te-change/The state of Florida is the region most susceptible to the effects of global warming in this country, according to scientists. Sea-level rise alone threatens 30 percent of the state’s beaches over the next 85 years.
But you would not know that by talking to officials at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the state agency on the front lines of studying and planning for these changes.
DEP officials have been ordered not to use the term “climate change” or “global warming” in any official communications, emails, or reports, according to former DEP employees, consultants, volunteers and records obtained by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting.
The policy goes beyond semantics and has affected reports, educational efforts and public policy in a department that has about 3,200 employees and $1.4 billion budget.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politic ... story.htmlWASHINGTON — Senator James Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who believes climate change is a hoax, rose from his chair on the Senate floor this year with a sly smile. Then he glanced across the chamber at his longtime nemesis, Senator Edward Markey.
“It’s nice to look over and see, probably, the most articulate and knowledgeable of all the alarmists,” Inhofe said, as he laid out the case by climate change doubters that the real alarm is that so many environmentalists are peddling gloom and doom.
The dart delivered by Inhofe — coated as it was in genteel Senate-speak — followed a quarter-century of congressional battles between him and Markey over the environment. Starting in January, Inhofe, the bane of climate scientists, is in line to become one of the world’s most powerful voices on climate change, when he is expected to chair the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works.
In his new role, the 80-year-old Oklahoman has pledged to use every lever of his power to block President Obama’s climate agenda, a major focus of the president’s final two years in office and a core international goal for Secretary of State John F. Kerry. Inhofe began his campaign this month, arguing in a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency that Obama’s proposed power plant emissions rule is illegal.
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