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Interior Secretary: I don't want any climate-change deniers in my department
The Washington Examiner ^ | 8-12-13 | Sean Higgens

Posted on 08/12/2013 9:39:55 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

Buried in a lengthy Washington Post article about President Obama’s environmental policy is an illuminating anecdote about just how debatable the administration views climate change — namely, not at all:

In an agency-wide address to employees Aug. 1, (Interior Secretary Sally) Jewell took the unusual step of suggesting that no one working for her should challenge the idea that human activity is driving recent warming. “I hope there are no climate-change deniers in the Department of Interior,” she said.

The address does not appear to be posted on the department’s website, so the Washington Examiner can only go by the Post’s presumably third-hand version. Still, it raises some interesting questions: What would happen to somebody at the department who raised some skepticism regarding Jewell’s take on climate change? Would they be in danger of losing their job?

For example, what if that person posted a news article pointing out that the global temperatures have been flat for the last two decades?

Presumably somebody at the Interior Department knows the answers to these questions. Whether they’re willing to talk openly about them is another question.


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To: afraidfortherepublic

41 posted on 08/12/2013 10:34:09 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Impeachment File on Communist, Benghazi Coward “B. Hussein Obama,” formerly known as Barry Soetoro, currently a Legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.


42 posted on 08/12/2013 10:35:19 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Paging Jim Jones!


43 posted on 08/12/2013 10:35:32 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Yep, only true believers are allowed in the Obama admin, so much for the whole point of the Civil Service.


44 posted on 08/12/2013 10:37:11 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“Shut up”, she explained.


45 posted on 08/12/2013 10:44:06 AM PDT by wbill
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To: CMB_polarization
could have dire effects on climate in 34.2 years, according to some estimates

That's some estimate.

Trouble is, you pulled your data from the same general region that the "Secretary of the Interior" pulled hers.

46 posted on 08/12/2013 10:46:13 AM PDT by wbill
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To: afraidfortherepublic

You’re fired, Sally.


47 posted on 08/12/2013 10:47:13 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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48 posted on 08/12/2013 10:49:34 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (This Message NOT Approved By The N.S.A.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Science so real that it has to be propped up by the threat of losing your livelihood.
49 posted on 08/12/2013 10:52:37 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Is there a new requirement for becoming the Interior Secretary?

I am curious to know if this new requirement is that you have to be a liar, insane, or have a single digit IQ.

Perhaps you have to have all three.

50 posted on 08/12/2013 10:55:07 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: PATRIOT1876
I am curious to know if this new requirement is that you have to be a liar, insane, or have a single digit IQ.

I think it's all three for any position in this admin.

51 posted on 08/12/2013 10:58:10 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: PATRIOT1876; afraidfortherepublic
Science so real that it has to be propped up by the threat of losing your livelihood.

Much more than one might suspect. For example, the US Geological Survey has (in the past at least) been on the forefront of science research in mineral natural resources, surface water, groundwater and water quality. I've already seen reports by them that refer to droughts as being caused by man-caused climate change.

More chilling, given the left-wing bent of the department, is the BLM which has jurisdiction for permitting coal mining, and oil-gas drilling on federal lands onshore and offshore. Permits to drill are likely to be slowed further because the agency would be following their leader's admonition by slowing fossil fuel production.

52 posted on 08/12/2013 11:09:13 AM PDT by CedarDave (Trayvon Martin history: The MS media is in love with burglars and thugs in training.)
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To: Olog-hai

I thought you wrote “man-faced”


Corporal Klinger!


53 posted on 08/12/2013 11:51:27 AM PDT by Studebaker Hawk (These geeks are a dime-a-dozen. I'm looking for the man with the dimes. Freddy Blassy)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Interesting parallel: in that 1977 Time Ice Age magazine, it has a little spot on the top wondering how the character of Frank Burns from M*A*S*H will leave the show. Interesting because Frank was irrational, inept, unwilling to allow other differing opinions, and rather stupid. His departure from the movie was in a straightjacket - in the T.V. show he went crazy and pursued Hot-Lips even though she had moved on to another beau. Seems like he’s a good analog for the man-made climate change folks.


54 posted on 08/12/2013 12:01:31 PM PDT by unseelie
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To: Olog-hai

Another socialist democratic freak. What rock did this freak crawl out of. Come 2014 she won’t have to worry about that any longer. She can go back to her old job of washing dishes at Joe’s Dinner.


55 posted on 08/12/2013 12:01:35 PM PDT by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: MeganC

oh hey now, she married with 2 kids

and with campaign donations, she bought her cabinet post fair and square!


56 posted on 08/12/2013 12:20:34 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: silverleaf

“oh hey now, she married with 2 kids”

Lots of lesbians are, so what?


57 posted on 08/12/2013 12:41:52 PM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

she could have just as easily said:

no republicans

no normal white males

no fathers

no mothers

no capitalists


58 posted on 08/12/2013 12:59:42 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Liberals like this old nag need to take their head out of their @ss and get a little God in their lives so they can get a better understanding of who created this earth and all of the living things on it.......


59 posted on 08/12/2013 1:00:34 PM PDT by Stayfree (If it is left, then it can't be right!)
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To: Olog-hai

Drill Gaia for every drop of oil she has....


60 posted on 08/12/2013 1:01:48 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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