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bananas

(27,509 posts) Sat Apr 18, 2015, 04:36 PM Apr 2015

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Obama set to utter term 'climate change' in Florida on Earth Day trip

Source: Guardian

- State made headlines for reported rule against using the phrase
- President says climate change ‘can no longer be denied – or ignored’
- Florida banned state workers from using term ‘climate change’ – report

Announcing an Earth Day trip to Florida on Saturday, President Barack Obama used his weekly address to say “climate change can no longer be denied – or ignored”.

Attitudes to climate change among Republicans and in Florida recently made national news, after it was reported that the state’s Department of Environmental Protection had issued an unwritten policy to forbid state workers from using the term.

“We were instructed by our regional administrator that we were no longer allowed to use the terms ‘global warming’ or ‘climate change’ or even ‘sea-level rise’,” a former DEP employee was quoted as saying in a report by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. “Sea-level rise was to be referred to as ‘nuisance flooding’.”

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/18/florida-obama-climate-sceptics-earth-day

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Obama set to utter term 'climate change' in Florida on Earth Day trip (Original Post) bananas Apr 2015 OP

Obama will visit the Florida Everglades on Earth Day — to talk about climate change bananas Apr 2015 #1

Holy shit, reality? shenmue Apr 2015 #2

Greatest Page for this great story! n/t CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2015 #3

Bat. Shit. Republicans. tomm2thumbs Apr 2015 #4

So is he going to explain how passing TPP will help us fight climate change? cascadiance Apr 2015 #5

"Unseasonable cold" "Unseasonably warm (never say HOT in Florida)" HockeyMom Apr 2015 #6

"Nuisance flooding" is so absurd, I imagine even Frank Luntz would be embarrassed by it. arcane1 Apr 2015 #7

Just Rhetoric Geronimoe Apr 2015 #8

High Tide Is "Nuisance Flooding" DallasNE Apr 2015 #9

"Nuisance flooding"????????? calimary Apr 2015 #10

Good on ya, President Obama! Cha Apr 2015 #11

TPP is supposed to be zentrum Apr 2015 #12

OMG! The Floriduh language police are gonna get him! n/t tabasco Apr 2015 #13

Will the local news bleep it out? nt LiberalElite Apr 2015 #14

Well that will piss off all the right people. L0oniX Apr 2015 #15

Highly recommend. n/t Jefferson23 Apr 2015 #16

bananas

(27,509 posts)

1. Obama will visit the Florida Everglades on Earth Day — to talk about climate change

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 04:37 PM

Apr 2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/04/18/obama-to-visit-florida-everglades-on-earth-day-to-talk-about-climate-change/

Obama will visit the Florida Everglades on Earth Day — to talk about climate change
By Chris Mooney April 18 at 6:20 AM

Saturday morning, President Obama gave a speech on climate change — to preview a bigger speech on climate change.

In the President’s weekly Saturday morning address, he declared that he’s headed to the Florida Everglades Wednesday — Earth Day — to “talk about the way that climate change threatens our economy.”

“The Everglades is one of the most special places in our country,” the president said. “But it’s also one of the most fragile. Rising sea levels are putting a national treasure — and an economic engine for the South Florida tourism industry — at risk.”

“Climate change can no longer be denied — or ignored,” said Obama.

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shenmue

(38,506 posts)

2. Holy shit, reality?

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 04:40 PM

Apr 2015

That's not allowed!

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,748 posts)

3. Greatest Page for this great story! n/t

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 04:42 PM

Apr 2015

tomm2thumbs

(13,297 posts)

4. Bat. Shit. Republicans.

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 04:45 PM

Apr 2015

They keep coming out of the woodwork... like termites... and when I hear 'big tent of the Republican Party' I always picture a termite-infested house being tented.

To no avail -- they, like cockroaches, are replicating under garbage piles and in sewers around the country.

cascadiance

(19,537 posts)

5. So is he going to explain how passing TPP will help us fight climate change?

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 04:51 PM

Apr 2015

I'd be interested in the entertainment value of that speech!

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)

6. "Unseasonable cold" "Unseasonably warm (never say HOT in Florida)"

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 04:52 PM

Apr 2015

Local Weather Forecasters. Better stifle them too.

arcane1

(38,613 posts)

7. "Nuisance flooding" is so absurd, I imagine even Frank Luntz would be embarrassed by it.

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 04:55 PM

Apr 2015

Geronimoe

(1,539 posts)

8. Just Rhetoric

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 06:26 PM

Apr 2015

He opened the east oast and arctic to drilling. Stuff even Bush couldn't do. He supports fracking and approved the southern leg of XL Keystone Pipeline. He undermined global warming agreements.

DallasNE

(7,404 posts)

9. High Tide Is "Nuisance Flooding"

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 06:43 PM

Apr 2015

But the high tide - and flooding of all types, really - recedes whereas "sea-level rise" will be around for at least several centuries so by definition this is not flooding.

calimary

(81,554 posts)

10. "Nuisance flooding"?????????

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 07:00 PM

Apr 2015

Well, I've heard of trying to spin things but Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!!!!

Cha

(297,877 posts)

11. Good on ya, President Obama!

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 07:16 PM

Apr 2015

zentrum

(9,865 posts)

12. TPP is supposed to be

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 07:34 PM

Apr 2015

....extremely bad for the environment because of the scuttling of already weak regulations.

Talking out of both sides of the mouth or not?

tabasco

(22,974 posts)

13. OMG! The Floriduh language police are gonna get him! n/t

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 07:59 PM

Apr 2015

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)

14. Will the local news bleep it out? nt

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 08:01 PM

Apr 2015

L0oniX

(31,493 posts)

15. Well that will piss off all the right people.

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 10:08 PM

Apr 2015

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)

16. Highly recommend. n/t

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Sat Apr 18, 2015, 10:08 PM

Apr 2015

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