Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Interior Denies Deniers

 Secretary: I don't want any climate-change deniers in my department
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.
Imagine if a Republican administration proposed to make jobs conditional on a particular belief in abortion....

1 comment:

  1. This "boss" just put her views up front. But how does one get "promoted" to that kind of position without the knowledge to keep their "mouth" shut.

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