‘Climate Change’ Officially Banned in Florida

Newspeak¹ at the Edge of Apocalypse

Former Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) employees were told by their supervisors  not to use the terms “climate change” and “global warming” in a 2014 staff meeting.

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

Shortly after he was elected, Gov. Rick Scott, ordered a prohibition on the terms “climate change” and “global warming,” according to former employees, said a report. “Low-lying Miami is among the U.S. cities most vulnerable to sea-level rise.”

Newspeak: “Nuisance Flooding”

Kristina Trotta, a field and administrative assistant with DEP, who left her position in January, told FCIR that she was ordered to remove term “climate change” from projects. Those orders came from Regional Administrator during a staff meeting in the summer of 2014.

“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,’ ” said Trotta. “Sea-level rise was to be referred to as ‘nuisance flooding.’ ”

“It’s beyond ludicrous to deny using the term climate change,” said Harold Wanless, a University of Miami professor. “It’s criminal at this point.”

Read full report HERE.

¹Newspeak, the fictional language in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, is a controlled language “designed to diminish the range of thought.” It’s created by the totalitarian state as a tool to limit freedom of thought, self-expression, individuality, and any similar concept that might pose a threat to the regime. Any form of thought alternative to the party’s construct would be treated as “thoughtcrime.”