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Friday, April 10th, 2015

Wisconsin Republicans ban state official from answering emails about climate change

Author:     Lindsay Abrams
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     Wednesday, Apr 8, 2015 07:27 AM PDT
 Link: Wisconsin Republicans ban state official from answering emails about climate change
Stephan:   This is how bizarre the corporatist Theocratic Right has become about climate change. Apart from the factual nonsense of the denier arguments, what struck me about this, following Florida as it does, is how childish it is. It reminds me of a friend of one of my daughters. She would put her fingers in her ear, and go "Nah...Nah...Nah, I can't hear you" over and over. Watching the transformation of Wisconsin from a socially progressive state with high citizen happiness to what it has become is a very sad chapter in American politics. I wonder how long it will go on.
Credit: Katherine Welles/Shutterstock

Credit: Katherine Welles/Shutterstock

Members of a Wisconsin state agency can no longer do any work involving climate change. They cannot discuss climate change. They can’t even — I kid you not — answer emails about climate change.

Looks like Florida’s ban on the words “climate change” and “global warming” is spawning some politically motivated imitators.

Wisconsin’s Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, a three-person committee overseeing an agency that is itself tasked with overseeing some of Wisconsin’s public lands, as well helping to fund school libraries, voted Tuesday to enact the ban, Bloomberg reports.

The prohibition on “engaging in global warming or climate change work while on BCPL time,” said state treasurer Matt Adamczyk, a Republican who sits on the board, is nothing but an attempt to cut down on government spending. “It’s not a part of our sole mission, which is to make money for our beneficiaries,” he explained. “That’s what I want our employees working on. That’s it. Managing our trust funds.”

But others are suspicious of Adamczyk’s motives, to say the least, describing it […]

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