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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/28131779

In addition to “climate change” and “green,” EERE forbid officials from using “emissions” to avoid the implication that they are a negative. Climate change is caused by rising greenhouse gas emissions, which is driven primarily by burning oil, coal and natural gas for energy.

Other terms officials must ditch include “energy transition,” “sustainability/sustainable,” “‘clean’ or ‘dirty’ energy,” “Carbon/CO2 ‘Footprint’” and “Tax breaks/tax credits/subsidies.”

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[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago

Still can't believe the government has a banned word list for scientific reports.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 26 points 6 months ago

They're just working up to banning science.

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You mean banning ~~science~~ liberal shit talk non facts?

(how every conversation starts looking next year)

[-] itztalal@lemmings.world 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They have morons on both sides already eager to do that for them.

Remember when science could be debated? Now we just have to accept everything as fact without question if it supports the correct agenda.

Questioning science gets you banned, lol. It may as well be religion at that point.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Remember when science could be debated? Now we just have to accept everything as fact without question if it supports the correct agenda.

Questioning science gets you banned, lol. It may as well be religion at that point.

Questioning what science gets you banned from what, by whom? Scientists question science all the time. That's how it progresses. You'd need to give examples to explain what you're referring to. And can you give an example when we're expected to simply "accept everything as fact without question"?

Edit: It has been a day. I guess there are no examples coming.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's literally not how science works or has ever worked

"Questioning science" is literally part of the scientific method. Every single scientist is constantly doing it.

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 points 6 months ago

If one side of a discussion on facts has data and the other has opinions what is there to debate?

I remember a time when hard data was debatable - it was ten minutes ago. We're trapped in a timeline where data is disregarded in favour of comfortable lies.

Why address climate change if one can instead engage in mass self-deception.

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[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

It's odd to me that they even have a banned words list to begin with

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 32 points 6 months ago

I'm not American but I know American academics and they have told me they are being pulled into meetings and given lists of words they must not use. So much for all the "free speech" whining from Republicans.

[-] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"Free speech" for republicans is just "I want to say the worst hateful, racist, bigoted shit out loud without repercussions"

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

"And punish you for daring to think about 'policing' me by calling me out."

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Conservatives are, and have always been, about power over others. We kept their more evil nature's focused externally for a while with cold war, but without an external threat to point them at, they always turn on their neighbors eventually.

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

The government is owned by billionaires and they ban words that make line go up slower.

[-] Rooty@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Whoever has the biggest bunker wins.

[-] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 6 months ago

Imagine being so invested in bullshit that you have to censor any and all terms that contradict it.

Really, it's no wonder that Trump and his cronies and minions are so filled with rage - they're in a constant state of extreme cognitive dissonance.

And it makes sense in a way that they direct their rage at "woke" people and positions. From their limited, animalistic points of view, all they understand is that when they think of "woke," they're filled with rage. They aren't conscious enough to understand that the source of the rage isn't the positions or the people, but the cognitive dissonance they experience when they cling to their opposition to simple and obvious truths.

It has to be a miserable way to live, and if they weren't an existential threat to me, my family and friends, and society as a whole, I'd feel sorry for them.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

his cronies and minions are so filled with rage - they're in a constant state of extreme cognitive dissonance.

And that will be their own undoing. Fascists are fully driven by emotions. They are anti-liberal and anti-intellect after all.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

Climate unaliving

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Y'all upset about all this... orbital heating? We really should reduce the amount of gassy leakages from cars and cows.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Too many car farts makes air go hot hot.

[-] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 9 points 6 months ago

It looks like “global warming” and “pollution” are back in the menu, boys!

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

It was almost 90°F here today. You can't tell me global warming doesn't also fucking apply to climate change.

It doesn't matter what doublespeak they use, it's still happening

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

How can you be so obtuse? Do you not recall when a US Senator brought a snowball onto the floor of the senate to completely disprove this hoax?

[-] caurvo@aussie.zone 4 points 6 months ago

Just like the time we had a minister bring a lump of "clean coal" into the Australian parliament.

Pretty neat demonstration of how the world beyond their viewpoint doesn't exist.

[-] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 months ago

“Freeze peach” and all that.

[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 months ago

Can't wait until enough people are upset that the guillotines come out.

[-] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

are you gonna start us off?

[-] Naich@lemmings.world 7 points 6 months ago

I do genuinely wonder if America can survive this perfect storm of idiotic fascism.

[-] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

They haven't had real dialog about real issues in 10 years. Time flies doesn't it. It was dead the moment they entered the Trump era. This idiotic fascism era.

I don't see how they're bringing 1/3rd to 2/3rds the population back to reality. It was over when that half the country reneged on the social contract.

[-] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago
[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

I remember ten years ago you'd get mocked if you went round calling everything Orwellian, but it's crazy the sheer degree with which the GOP are using it as a guidebook.

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago

Global hotting

[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago
[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago

World-wide uncoldification.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

climate.nasa.gov still works, for now.

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Enemies of humankind

[-] ScrumpyDumpleskin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Planetary abuse repercussions is a more accurate label, I say let's use that in place.

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

The problem is that changing the name makes it much harder for people to find and collate evidence.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 6 months ago

Wouldn't it be easier to just ban all reports, period? Problem solved.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago

Gonna make it illegal to look up next?

So would it now be considered acceptable to use something like " [INSERT FIRM] passed gas to the amount of [BLANK] tons over [PERIOD OF TIME] "

It sure would make reports a hell of alot more interesting.

[-] zululove@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago

What else is there to say but arm the workers

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Organize the workers. Many are already armed but it doesn't help without organization.

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