{"id":2281,"date":"2015-03-09T21:17:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T01:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2015-03-13T14:38:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T18:38:50","slug":"lets-cover-up-our-heads-in-the-florida-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2281","title":{"rendered":"Let’s “Cover Up” Our Heads in The Florida Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a report published in yesterdays (Sundays) Miami Herald Newspaper<\/a>, reporter Tristam Korten<\/span><\/span> revealed that, on orders from governor Scott\u00c2\u00a0and his ilk, state officials are not permitted to use the terms \u00e2\u20ac\u0153global warming\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153climate change\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in environmental reports or talks.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The term \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sea-level rise\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was also replaced with the\u00c2\u00a0term \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nuisance flooding.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Scott is a climate-change denialist. During his first campaign for governor in 2010, Scott told reporters who asked about his views on climate change that he had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not been convinced,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and that he would need \u00e2\u20ac\u0153something more convincing than what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d We should all be concerned with this “cover up” since climate change would and should be part of the 2016 revised Florida Science Standards. Along with his denial of\u00c2\u00a0evolution,the state’s governor is no supporter of real science.<\/p>\n

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In a report published in yesterdays (Sundays) Miami Herald Newspaper, reporter Tristam Korten revealed that, on orders from governor Scott\u00c2\u00a0and his ilk, state officials are not permitted to use the terms \u00e2\u20ac\u0153global warming\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153climate change\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in environmental reports or … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-AN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2827,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2827","url_meta":{"origin":2281,"position":0},"title":"U.S. Senator from Florida blasts instructional materials law","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"U.S. Senator from Florida Bill Nelson seized upon all of the press generated by his state's new instructional materials law to stand up for science on Monday and accuse Gov. 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