Florida Officials Ban The Term ‘Climate Change’

[singular_me]

10th March 2015

Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection is tasked with protecting the state’s “air, water and land.” But there’s one environmental threat you won’t hear DEP officials talking about.

Officials at Florida’s DEP have banned the words “climate change” and “global warming” from all official communications, including reports and emails, according to an investigation published Sunday by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (FCIR).

Four former DEP employees told FCIR that they had been instructed not to use the terms during their time at the state’s DEP.

“We were told not to use the terms ‘climate change,’ ‘global warming’ or ‘sustainability,’” Christopher Byrd, who served as an attorney with the DEP’s Office of General Counsel from 2008 to 2013, told FCIR. “That message was communicated to me and my colleagues by our superiors in the Office of General Counsel.”

The DEP’s press secretary Tiffany Cowie disagreed with these reports, however, saying that her department “does not have a policy on this.” But according to the former employees’ accounts, the unofficial policy went into place after Gov. Rick Scott (R) took office in 2011 and appointed a new DEP director. Over the last year, Scott has skirted answering questions on his views on climate change. He said in 2010 that he had “not been convinced” that climate change was real, but during last year’s gubernatorial race, he refused to take a stand on the issue. ........

An unwritten ban on mentioning “climate change” is concerning for an environmental agency in any state, but Florida in particular faces major threats from climate change and its impacts. The state has been called “ground zero” for sea level rise, an impact that’s already causing problems in parts of South Florida. The FCIR notes that the state doesn’t have any ban on talking about sea level rise, but it’s hard to address sea level rise without also addressing the broader problem of climate change. And on a federal level, Florida hasn’t been great at doing either: Scott announced last month that $106 million of his proposed budget would go towards ways to mitigate the impacts of sea level rise in Florida, but his re-election environmental plan published last year didn’t mention climate change.

more
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/08/3631198/florida-dep-bans-climate-change-investigation/


Green Fiasco: 92% Of Swiss Voters Reject Carbon Tax In Referendum
http://www.thegwpf.com/92-of-swiss-voters-reject-carbon-tax-in-referendum/


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Cold comfort: Despite deep blankets of snow across much of US experts say this winter was the 19th warmest since records began – and for five states it was the warmest EVER winter
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2986050/Despite-deep-blankets-snow-experts-say-winter-19th-warmest-records-began-five-states-warmest-winter.html

[mick silver]

and here it was the 6 coldest in history ........................ it just part of the Al Gore matrix

[mick silver]

Global Warming "But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact," said President Barack Obama in his 2014 State of the Union address. Saying the debate is settled is nonsense, but the president is right about climate change.

GlobalChange.gov gives the definition of climate change: "Changes in average weather conditions that persist over multiple decades or longer. Climate change encompasses both increases and decreases in temperature, as well as shifts in precipitation, changing risk of certain types of severe weather events, and changes to other features of the climate system."

That definition covers all weather phenomena throughout all 4.54 billion years of Earth's existence.

You say, "Williams, that's not what the warmers are talking about. It's the high CO2 levels caused by mankind's industrial activities that are causing the climate change!" There's a problem with that reasoning.

Today CO2 concentrations worldwide average about 380 parts per million. This level of CO2 concentration is trivial compared with the concentrations during earlier geologic periods. For example, 460 million years ago, during the Ordovician Period, CO2 concentrations were 4,400 ppm, and temperatures then were about the same as they are today. With such high levels of CO2, at least according to the warmers, the Earth should have been boiling.

Then there are warmer predictions. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, warmers, such as the Union of Concerned Scientists, made all manner of doomsday predictions about global warming and the increased frequency of hurricanes. According to the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, "no Category 3-5 hurricane has struck the United States for a record nine years, and Earth's temperature has not budged for 18 years."

Climate change predictions have been wrong for decades. Let's look at some. At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind."

C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed." In 1968, Professor Paul Ehrlich predicted that there would be a major food shortage in the U.S. and that "in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people (would) starve to death."

Ehrlich forecasted that 65 million Americans would die of starvation between 1980 and 1989 and that by 1999, the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million. Ehrlich's predictions about England were gloomier. He said, "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000."

In 1970, Harvard University biologist George Wald predicted, "Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind." Sen. Gaylord Nelson, in Look magazine in April 1970, said that by 1995, "somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals (would) be extinct."

Climate change propaganda is simply a ruse for a socialist agenda. Consider the statements of some environmentalist leaders. Christiana Figueres, the U.N.'s chief climate change official, said that her unelected bureaucrats are undertaking "probably the most difficult task" they have ever given themselves, "which is to intentionally transform the (global) economic development model."

In 2010, German economist and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change official Ottmar Edenhofer said, "One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy." The article in which that interview appeared summarized Edenhofer's views this way: "Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection. ... The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world's resources will be negotiated."

The most disgusting aspect of the climate change debate is the statements by many that it's settled science. There is nothing more anti-scientific than the idea that any science is settled. Very often we find that the half-life of many scientific ideas is about 50 years. For academics to not criticize their colleagues and politicians for suggesting that scientific ideas are not subject to challenge is the height of academic dishonesty. http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/walter-e-williams/global-warming

[singular_me]

McConnell Is Now Telling States To Ignore Obama’s Carbon Emission Rules
Tuesday 10th March 2015

Continuing his crusade against the Obama administration’s regulatory plan to fight climate change, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday told individual states to openly defy the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

In an op-ed for the Lexington Herald Leader, McConnell said states should not form plans to meet the emissions reductions goals set out for them under the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. Under that plan, states would be required to create their own long-term strategies to reduce emissions, whether it be through cutting coal consumption, increasing renewable energy, or implementing a cap-and-trade program. If states don’t make a plan, the federal government will make one for them.

“Here’s my advice: Don’t be complicit in the administration’s attack on the middle class,” McConnell wrote. “Think twice before submitting a state plan.”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/05/3630179/mcconnell-advice-epa-climate-rule/

[palani]

The phrase 'climate change' is a word of art. Get that? It is not two words but a single word. That single word is a symbol meaning "man's effect on climate". Not nature's effect on climate but man's. If we were to try to regulate nature by anything we do then that would admit that we have control over nature and there is no credible evidence that man can control nature. So we are left with controlling man's actions that might be a factor in weather.

Government isn't controlling weather. They aren't controlling climate. They are looking at what they do best (and worst mostly) which is GOVERNING THE ACTIVITIES OF MAN.

There is an error in the previous paragraph. That is that governments govern the activities of MAN. They don't. They govern the activities of HUmans because they have no mandate to govern MAN.

[Horn]

The larger Antarctic ice mirror continues its growth 33% larger, reflecting larger amounts of light when we are closer to Sol in December.


Summary
The Antarctic sea ice continues to be far above average for this time of year: rising from +23% Feb 1 to 33.4% on Feb 28. This DOES matter, because the excess Antarctic sea ice this time of year reflects significant amounts of sunlight, and this loss continues to cool the planet. A lot.”

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/03/05/state-of-the-sea-ice-february-2015/



Explains the local heat island anomalies, while the larger widespread trend is a cooling.

[Horn]

Silencing skeptics – financing alarmists
http://iceagenow.info/2015/03/15984/

[midnight rambler]

There's climate change annually, aka as the four seasons.

[Horn]

Its not every year that you receive a grand minimum though.

http://gold-silver.us/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7405&stc=1

[Glass]

CO2 apparently is not the problem. The problem is methane. I think mainly because its more noxious and might increase warming by a bigger amount than CO2 would/can.

I can't see how looking at 20 years weather data can tell us there is a climate problem. As the OP points out, the climate has been going a long time and it has cycles over decades and centuries. Looking only at the last 20 minutes of data is like looking at a kitco graph when the price of silver changes $0.10 but the graph scale is magnified so it looks at a glance, like a $5.00 spike.

[Horn]

Breaks down the notion many mainstream scientists have that solar irradiance has no effect on earth's climate.

https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/tim-cullen-the-problem-with-tsi-total-solar-irradiance/

[singular_me]

from a pundit himself...
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Why my own Royal Society is wrong on climate change: A devastating critique of world's leading scientific organisation by one of its Fellows

The Royal Society's motto is 'Nullius in verba' or don't take another's word
It is the world's first scientific organisation in the world
Prof Michael Kelly fears that on climate change, it is ignoring the science
He accuses the organisation of becoming dogmatic about climate change

By Professor Michael Kelly For The Mail On Sunday

Published: 18:37 EST, 14 March 2015

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2995239/Why-Royal-Society-wrong-climate-change-devastating-critique-world-s-leading-scientific-organisation-one-Fellows.html#ixzz3UUggbjZY


‘Five years ago, I was one of 43 Fellows of the Royal Society – the first and arguably still the most prestigious scientific organisation in the world – who wrote to our then-president about its approach to climate change. We warned that the Society was in danger of violating its founding principle, summed up in its famous motto ‘Nullius in verba’ – or ‘Don’t take another’s word for it; check it out for yourself’.

The reason for our warning was a Society document which stated breezily: ‘If you don’t believe in climate change you are using one of the following [eight] misleading arguments.’

The implication was clear: the Society seemed to be saying there was no longer room for meaningful debate about the claim that the world is warming dangerously because of human activity, because the science behind this was ‘settled’.’

[Glass]

yes climate science is now a fully fledged dogma just like vaccinations.

[Horn]

Why Should We Be Concerned about the Next Cold Climate Era?


This new era called a 'solar hibernation' or 'grand minimum' is caused by a repeating 206 year cycle of the Sun. These hibernations are accompanied by historic reductions in the energy output of the Sun. SSRC research shows the next solar hibernation will bring a long period of cold just as it has done before every time this cycle 'turns over' from its global warming phase to its global cooling phase. In addition, SSRC research backed by that of other researchers has shown a high degree of correlation between solar hibernations and the world's largest earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Mr. Casey, President of the SSRC was the first authority to notify the White House and other government agencies of this coming solar hibernation in early 2007. Numerous other scientists discovered the same cycles of the Sun. Their findings have been ignored or buried in science journals and thus essentially unknown to the public.During the first six months of 2011, NASA, The US Air Force, and the National Solar Observatory all confirmed the coming solar grand minimum. The next solar hibernation and according to the SSRC and many other scientists, the next climate change to decades of record cold has begun.

This cold era is expected to last for approximately 22 to 33 years with the coldest temperatures to be seen during the 2020's and 2030's either side of the bottom year of the cycle in 2031, and have temperatures on the order of that observed during the Dalton Minimum (1793-1830). We have already seen the early signs of the new climate with record cold winters globally for some of the past four years. During the winter of 2011-2012, while the central and eastern USA experienced a relatively warm winter, Europe and Asia had a difficult winter. We have entered a period of record temperature setting both hot and cold. This trend of highly variable extremes of both hot and cold within a general trend of globally declining temperatures is fully characteristic of the transition between climate changes.

That does not mean we can wait to prepare. Now that the hibernation has begun, it is possible for these unusual variations in temperatures to strike with little warning. We should not be surprised to see occasional severe crop damage and recurring food shortages in many nations at any time. Comparisons to the Dalton Minimum show that there is a high probability of social, economic and political turmoil worldwide as a result of massive crop losses from the coming cold weather. The SSRC believes this damage to the world's agricultural systems will be sufficient to create conditions that could lead to the world's worst subsistence crisis in recorded history. This same food crisis occurred during the last hibernation, though with significantly fewer people to feed. Historian John D. Post called that time"...the last great subsistence crisis."

Additionally, SSRC research and that of other respected researchers shows that geophysical upheavals like the largest earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are likely to occur during these solar events. As before with the Mt. Tambora eruption in 1815 that took place during the last solar hibernation, large volcanic eruptions may greatly add to the cooling of the Earth on top of that created by the reduction in the Sun's output. Further, the largest recorded earthquakes in US history took place in the middle of the last hibernation, the New Madrid quakes of 1811-1812. The SSRC Research Report 1-2010, (See The RC Theory page) similar to that of other researchers, established a strong link between solar hibernations and these largest geophysical disturbances. Given the likelihood of major quakes and volcanic eruptions here in the US, the SSRC immediately notified US authorities and major news outlets after release of the report.

This is the nature of the threats that the SSRC sees during the new climate era that has just begun. The obvious message here is that we need to prepare as best we can. The SSRC will do all it can to spread the word about this new climate period and its ill-effects. We will continue to pursue the SSRC Mission of urging the government and our fellow citizens to prepare for this new climate era.

http://spaceandscience.net/id68.html




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON824vo2fDg

[Cebu_4_2]

Two words, "carbon tax"

That is the whole reason for this nonsense. No western manufacturing, send it all to China and watch the west self destruct.

[mick silver]

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[mick silver]

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[mick silver]

Droughts in the News: Time for Another Scarcity Meme?
March 19, 2015



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Global population growth threatens to outstrip fresh water supply: study ... Global demand for fresh water is set to outstrip supply as a result of population growth by the middle of this century if current levels of consumption continue, a study said. – Reuters
Dominant Social Theme: The world is running out of everything. Soon we will freeze in the dark ... or maybe die of thirst.
Free-Market Analysis: Here comes Reuters, right on time.
With California and Brazil suffering from horrible droughts – or so the mainstream media tells us – this article pounds the drum for water scarcity.
Of course, as followers of the Daily Bell/VESTS (http://www.thedailybell.com/glossary/28547/VESTS-The-Visible-Elite-Super-Tendencies-Strategy/) model, the reality of a water shortage is not nearly so important as whether the financial community and its media abettors have decided that there is one.
The same goes for farmland, as common wisdom tells us that farmland is a dwindling commodity at a time when thin, over-used soil is the norm in many countries.
Water and farmland, if you can obtain them, are thus seen as some of the best investments going forward.
Is this true? Perhaps so. Anyway, we are TOLD it is true.
And we recognize a meme (http://www.thedailybell.com/definitions/params/id/654/) when we see one.
Some very powerful forces are promoting these scarcity memes. And that's what you, dear reader, will have to contemplate as you decide on the validity of these items.
More:
Fears of water shortages could intensify although this is not the first time in history that demand is poised to outpace supply, Tony Parolari, the study's lead author, said on Wednesday.
"Global water consumption per capita has been declining since 1980 which means efficiency is increasing," Parolari, a researcher at Duke University, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "But if population growth trends continue, water use will have to decline more substantially."
The world's population is expected to hit 9.6 billion by 2050 from more than 7 billion now, according to U.N. estimates ... The paper, published in the journal WIREs Water, analyzed historical information on water consumption and demographics with the help of mathematical models to chart changes over time.
Ah, mathematical models. The idea, of course, is to project these models into the future, though any honest statistician will tell you that is extraordinarily difficult to do.
In the article, we get an inkling of the horrors to come, but strangely enough the emphasis is not on modeling so much as current events. We are reminded of Brazil and of California – "entering its fourth year of drought."
The article does have the grace to point out in some detail that past "water scarcity" has been resolved ... wait for it ... by new technology. "Expanding pipeline networks to pump in water from further afield," alleviated distress in both Paris and London.
Additionally, progress in desalinization techniques could "alleviate water scarcity" throughout the world. But that's not really the point, is it?
Nope. The rumble concerning food shortages and water shortages is a constant subterranean theme. At any given time you can find some study, survey or data being reported that predicts imminent or near-term doom.
We tend to doubt or discount a lot of these reports. (Apparently in California, they've been opening dams to let out water surreptitiously that could otherwise have gone to irrigate cropland. Why this is being done is a mystery to many ... but no doubt authorities will clarify sooner or later.)
In any case, from an investment standpoint, the reality of the scarcity meme is not so important as its promotion. You simply have to decide whether these programs are viable or dysfunctional.
The stakes can be high, indeed. We've pointed out recently the example of what would appear to be one successful meme: Cannabis legalization. That's going to make lots of people wealthy.
On the other hand, considerable amounts of money have been lost backing the carbon – warmist – meme. That doesn't mean the theme ceases to operate, only that for many it hasn't turned out to be exceptionally lucrative and in some cases (say you backed a carbon exchange) you might have lost a considerable amount.
Conclusion: The world – the investment world, anyway – often runs on elite promotions. Factor their credibility into your larger speculative calculations for a better sense of how to position your assets.

- See more at: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36170/Droughts-in-the-News-Time-for-Another-Scarcity-Meme/#sthash.EJyroTAU.dpuf

[singular_me]

now that is funny ;D


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Florida Government Employee Punished and Told to Seek Mental Health Evaluation After Using Term ‘Climate Change’ - 21st March 2015
http://www.alternet.org/environment/florida-govt-employee-punished-and-told-seek-mental-health-evaluation-after-using-term