Energy Department tells staff not to use phrase 'climate change': report

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/The Hill

Staffers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) international climate office have been asked to stop using the phrases "climate change," "emissions reduction" and "Paris Agreement," Politico reported Wednesday.

A supervisor at the DOE international climate office asked staff not to use the phrases in memos and briefings within hours of President Trump's Tuesday executive order that reversed many of former President Obama's climate protections, the report said.

The phrases have not been banned outright, but are reportedly part of a list of climate-related terms that are being avoided in light of the Trump administration's attitudes on climate change.

A DOE spokeswoman told Politico that "no words or phrases have been banned" within the office or the department as a whole.


Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/energy-department-tells-staff-not-to-use-phrase-climate-change-report/ar-BBz1pXB?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=UE01DHP

[samnsara]

1. we need to pepper their sites with climate change statements and questions

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. .

maybe they should just replace each of those terms with the following - "I am an ignorant asshole - don't listen to anything reported here, or from trump's mouth"!

[luvMIdog]

3. so scary when they even try to hide science

[defacto7]

4. Has free speech been culled?

How about book burning next... book burning of the mind.

[pangaia]

5. Well, here is my email to fuckwad Perry.

Dear Mr Perry,

According to MSN.COM--
"Staffers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) international climate office have been asked to stop using the phrases "climate change," "emissions reduction" and "Paris Agreement," Politico reported Wednesday."

Your department is telling its employees to LIE, and basically threatening them if they tell the truth.

This is reprehensible behavior, SIR !!! You should be ashamed. Ashamed.

Your friend,
Pangaia

Actually, that sig is not what I used. LOL!!!

Here is his email address--
[e-mail]

[kyburbonkid]

6. Simply DISOBEY!

Someone has to disobey. If we all do it would force the issue to the public. Sure you might get a bad job review, but then they might get one too. Second, publish independently. Science is like that... truth to power works very well in science.

[dalton99a]

7. How many scientists are going to put up with this crap?

Maybe they're trying to replace American scientists with Russians.

[Canoe52]

8. They were asked to also not use the words

Earth round
Water wet
Sky blue

[Girard442]

9. The crew of the Titanic have been asked not to use the following nomenclature:

* Iceberg
* Sink
* Flooding
* Lifeboats
* Distress
* Drown
* Death
* Nearer My God to Thee

Further advisories to follow.

[Nitram]

11. Permitted phrse: "re-arrange the deck chairs."

[Nitram]

10. Bullshit! This is an Orwellian attempt to gag scientists and prevent them from doing their job.