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Florida officials banned term 'climate change' state employees say
2015-03-08 22:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: Former employees from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection say they were ordered to avoid using terms such as "climate change" in official reports, emails and other communications following the appointment of a new DEP director by Gov. Rick Scott. Four former DEP employees told the Miami Herald that the policy was unwritten but verbally distributed across the state in 2011, when the Republican governor appointed Herschel Vinyard Jr. as the DEP's director. "We were told not to...
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Florida banned state workers from using term 'climate change' report
2015-03-08 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Officials with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the agency in charge of setting conservation policy and enforcing environmental laws in the state, issued directives in 2011 barring thousands of employees from using the phrases climate change and global warming, according to a bombshell report by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (FCIR). The report ties the alleged policy, which is described as unwritten, to the election of Republican governor Rick Scott...
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Evidence glacier ice: Until banned, leaded gasoline dominated humanmade lead emissions
2015-03-08 17:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Leaded gasoline was a larger emission source of the toxic heavy metal lead than mining in South America -- even though the extraction of metals from the region's mines historically released huge quantities of lead into the environment. Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the University of Bern have discovered evidence of the dominance of leaded gasoline based on measurements in an ice core from a Bolivian glacier. The scientists found that lead from road traffic in the neighbouring...
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Global Warming, Climate Adjust Terms Banned For Use In Florida
2015-03-08 16:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: The Miami Herald published a report earlier today stating that officials in Florida`s Department of Environmental Protection have been banned from using the terms "global warming" and "climate adjust." The ban didn`t just happen, but took effect when Republican Governor Rick Scott took office in 2011. According to former employees of Florida`s DEP, state employees have been banned from mentioning climate change, global warming, or any other climate adjusting term by name. Officials at the DEP...
Evidence from glacier ice: Until it was banned, leaded gasoline dominated the anthropogenic lead emissions in South America
2015-03-08 14:55:30| Green Car Congress
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