Politico is reporting the absurd once again after the passing of a storm of controversy about climate change and a staff purge at DOE during the transition period.
Reaction from Sierra Club Climate Policy Director Liz Perera:
“What exactly is this office supposed to call itself now? The international C****** office? Ignoring the climate crisis will not make it go away, will not create jobs in the booming clean energy economy, and will not make our country great. Rick Perry lied to Congress about climate science to get a job at an agency he wanted to eliminate, and he has started things off with a blatant dereliction of duty. The only place the climate is not changing is in the minds of those in the Trump Administration.”
Rick Perry previously told Congress "Science tells us that the climate is changing, and that human activity, in some manner, impacts that change," and that "I am going to protect the men and women of the scientific community from anyone who would attack them."
Story excerpt from Politico:
Energy Department climate office bans use of phrase ‘climate change’
The Office of International Climate and Clean Energy is the only office at DOE with the words ‘climate’ in its name, and it may be endangered as Trump looks to reorganize government agencies.
A supervisor at the Energy Department's international climate office told staff this week not to use the phrases "climate change," "emissions reduction" or "Paris Agreement" in written memos, briefings or other written communication, sources have told POLITICO.
Employees of DOE’s Office of International Climate and Clean Energy learned of the ban at a meeting Tuesday, the same day President Donald Trump signed an executive order at EPA headquarters to reverse most of former President Barack Obama's climate regulatory initiatives. Officials at the State Department and in other DOE offices said they had not been given a banned words list, but they had started avoiding climate-related terms in their memos and briefings given the new administration's direction on climate change.
Read the full piece at POLITICO.