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Federal Park Staffers Defy Presidential Order, Tweet Climate Change Warnings
Michigan Capitol Confidential ^ | 2/4/2017 | Derek Draplin

Posted on 02/06/2017 11:25:48 AM PST by MichCapCon

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To: MichCapCon
a presidential blackout on social media by using the park’s Twitter account to tweet climate change facts opinions.

Fire them, or maybe even prosecute them for illegal use of government property.

21 posted on 02/06/2017 11:59:31 AM PST by libertylover (In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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To: nikos1121

:... climate change facts ....” Facts? According to whom?

I want to know who measured the CO2 content of the atmosphere 650,000 years ago. For that matter, who measured it 650 years ago?

Absolute nonsense.


22 posted on 02/06/2017 12:03:10 PM PST by dontBSme
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To: MeganC

You have a good point. But the person writing the headline did not consider or jumped to the conclusion that these were tweets from fakes trying to pass themselves off as federal park employees.

Facts about CO2 levels are readily available to anyone that wants to do the research. Federal park employees don’t need to think that the public needs them to inform about CO2 levels and they probably don’t have a role in measuring atmospheric CO2 to begin with.

So if we put ourselves in the shoes of federal park employees, it makes no sense whatsoever to do what the headline describes.

So your point has a high probability of being true and the person that wrote this needs to know people are reading and they are not stupid.


23 posted on 02/06/2017 12:03:26 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Hostage

IIRC, shortly after this story came out, it was discovered that the tweet was from an official account, but was made by a former employee that still had the password to the twitter account.


24 posted on 02/06/2017 12:08:07 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: MeganC
Right, and reviving this story so long after the so-called actual occurrence, is ever more FAKE NEWS.
25 posted on 02/06/2017 12:12:16 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: MichCapCon

What’s so funny about these idiots is that plant life strives on Carbon-Dioxide. Plants “breathe” CO2 and expel Oxygen. An abundance of CO2 is good for the environment.


26 posted on 02/06/2017 12:17:30 PM PST by PJBankard
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To: Richard Kimball

Tells you about the writer adding more to the growing view that today’s journalism is sloppy, lazy, and politically motivated.

Before writing, data need to be checked as factual, unless one doesn’t care about facts but is more interested in a politicized narrative.

If the writer had dug deeper, his headline would read “Former Obama employee illegally posts official tweet”. The story could then add detail that the former employee is former because dadada, and is anti-Trump (if found), and was known to rant about President Trump (if found), and was able to tweet in defiance of the President’s orders to go silent on social media, and was able to tweet because he/she had a previous twitter account with a password that was still good, etc.

The research could then go in the direction of contacting the PR Officer if not the former employee’s supervisor to ask if they were aware that this former employee was able to tweet on an official twitter account and hear their story, then ask what is being done about it, etc.

That would be a story. But we see little of that basic kind of research and reporting today.


27 posted on 02/06/2017 12:24:12 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: dontBSme
I want to know who measured the CO2 content of the atmosphere 650,000 years ago. For that matter, who measured it 650 years ago?

No one, of course. But the beauty of science is that we can, today, look back into the past, by a multitude of methods (ice cores etc.). The future, not at all, by the very definition of the scientific method. Don't blame science, blame rogue "scientists".

28 posted on 02/06/2017 12:26:57 PM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: dontBSme

I think they get the data from ice core samples that haven’t been disturbed for 1000’s of years. That said, I’m not sure the assertion is true. It’s my understanding that there’s been (relatively recent) periods where the earth has had higher CO2 and temperature levels but this was before the industrial revolution. This attitude that higher CO2 levels CAN ONLY BE a bad thing can only be political, it’s not supported by science.


29 posted on 02/06/2017 12:28:41 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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“Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years” was tweeted along with the hashtag “#climate.”

So what if it is?

No smoking hot spot David Evans - THE AUSTRALIAN July 18, 2008

1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.

Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.

If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.


30 posted on 02/06/2017 12:30:08 PM PST by TigersEye (Winning. Winning winning winning every day!!!)
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Christy said in past times, carbon dioxide levels were up to 10 times higher than they are today.

True, and in *very much* past times, a couple of billion years ago, pre-life-on-earth, pre-the-wicked-industrialized-western-nations, CO2 levels were about 99% versus appr. 0.04% today. That is a lot more than "10 times"... anyway, with rising CO2 levels we are dodging a very lethal bullet. Buy another SUV and save humanity!

31 posted on 02/06/2017 12:46:38 PM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years

Who knew the park service had monitors out 650,000 years ago?

You're fired!

32 posted on 02/06/2017 12:53:30 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: MichCapCon

Last time I heard, disobeying a directive, or direct order was grounds for misbehavior charges, and dismissal. Hope you enjoy unemployment morons.


33 posted on 02/06/2017 12:59:08 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: MichCapCon
The incident caused a new flare-up in the ongoing debate over climate change policy.

There is no debate over "climate change policy". The Trump Administration's policy is that human caused "global warming" aka "climate change" is nonsense and will not be promoted by the federal government. Doesn't matter what opinion is held by federal employees, that is the policy.

Any federal employee officially defying that policy should be fired immediately.

34 posted on 02/06/2017 1:01:10 PM PST by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: MichCapCon

Speaking of “climate change” .. I noticed early this morning that Fox Business was talking about the whistle blower at the climate conference - how the data was fixed to appear as if the planet was warming when it really was NOT.

Rush talked about it today, but he never mentioned the time FOX Business spent on the item. It was good - because nobody else in the MSM was even mentioning it.


35 posted on 02/06/2017 1:02:03 PM PST by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: Rumplemeyer

“The agency knows who they are, fire them and their immediate superiors to show you mean business.”

The upper echelon within the NPS likely knows who is doing it, and probably before it’s even done. They will never be fired unless forced to do so.

The NPS is a total green outfit. The day and age of the tourist friendly ranger packing a chainsaw on horseback is gone. The Clinton administration started hiring greenies, and that batch is now high enough on the ladder to be running the Badlands park.

The info in the latter paragraph I know for fact.

Compared to typical state parks, the NPS is a disaster in terms of facilities. I say turn over all federal parks to their respective states for management with existing federal dollars and hire all new help.


36 posted on 02/06/2017 1:27:54 PM PST by redfreedom
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>> “The NPS is a total green Nazi outfit.” <<
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37 posted on 02/06/2017 1:35:47 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: MichCapCon

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


38 posted on 02/06/2017 1:57:36 PM PST by abclily
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