Florida enviro-agency worker gets in trouble for mentioning "climate change"

[KingOrfeo]

Florida enviro-agency worker gets in trouble for mentioning "climate change"

Remember that story about the Rick Scott Admin forbidding employees in Florida state environmental agencies to mention "global warming" or "climate change"?

It turns out they actually meant it.

Washington, DC — A Florida state employee is in hot water for speaking about climate change at an official meeting and keeping notes of that discussion in official minutes, according to a complaint filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). In response, his superiors at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued him a letter of reprimand, ordered him to take two days leave and then told him not to return until he had medical clearance of his fitness for duty..

Barton Bibler is a long-time DEP employee who now serves as Land Management Plan Coordinator in its Division of State Lands. He attended a Florida Coastal Managers Forum on February 27, 2015 at which climate change and sea-level rise were discussed among a mix of public attendees. Mr. Bibler’s official notes on this meeting reflected all of that discussion. He was directed to remove any hot button issues, especially explicit references to climate change, and then was given a letter of reprimand for supposedly misrepresenting that the “official meeting agenda included climate change.”.

As he was given the reprimand on March 9th, Mr. Bibler was told to not return to work for two days which would be charged against his personal leave time. Two days later he received a “Medical Release Form” requiring that his doctor supply the DEP with an evaluation of unspecified “medical condition and behavior” issues before being allowed to return to work.

 

[Boxlicker101]

That kind of thing should never happen, but it does. Usually, at least in CA, it's when somebody is not PC, such as wishing somebody else Merry Christmas or referring to a person as a dwarf.

 

[BotanyBoy]

That kind of thing should never happen, but it does. Usually, at least in CA, it's when somebody is not PC, such as wishing somebody else Merry Christmas or referring to a person as a dwarf.

LOL really?

Care to point out the CA employee that's been punished/fired for saying Merry Christmas or using the PC and technically correct term dwarf?

 

[Boxlicker101]

LOL really?

Care to point out the CA employee that's been punished/fired for saying Merry Christmas or using the PC and technically correct term dwarf?

Here are some examples of extreme PC. http://listverse.com/2010/10/26/10-ridiculous-cases-of-political-correctness/

Here are some others: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...ingrich-says-no-federal-official-allowed-say/

 

[phrodeau]

Just one more example. http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=857449

 

[sr71plt]

Here are some examples of extreme PC. http://listverse.com/2010/10/26/10-ridiculous-cases-of-political-correctness/

Here are some others: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...ingrich-says-no-federal-official-allowed-say/

Did you even read the examples you cited, Box? First, neither of these support the contentions you were challenged on. Second, The Gingrich article you cite debunks Gingrich's claim; it doesn't support it. You were not aware that Christmas Day is a federal holiday, for Christ's sake? (which I think is an appropriate phrase for the instance.)

 

[KingOrfeo]

That kind of thing should never happen, but it does. Usually, at least in CA, it's when somebody is not PC, such as wishing somebody else Merry Christmas or referring to a person as a dwarf.

Not even you believe a single word of that.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Here are some examples of extreme PC. http://listverse.com/2010/10/26/10-ridiculous-cases-of-political-correctness/

Here are some others: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...ingrich-says-no-federal-official-allowed-say/

You must have missed the question the first time....so here it is again.

LOL really?

Care to point out the CA employee that's been punished/fired for saying Merry Christmas or using the PC and technically correct term dwarf?