Thursday, March 08, 2007

Memo to Scientists: Do Not Discuss Climate Change!


Remember last year when scientists were instructed by the government of the USSR USA to keep their mouths shut about global warming? Well, here we go again.

Apparently, the only thing scarier than global warming is talking about global warming. Shhhh!

Boris and Natasha would be so pleased.

Internal memorandums circulated in the Alaskan division of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service appear to require government biologists or other employees traveling in countries around the Arctic not to discuss climate change, polar bears or sea ice if they are not designated to do so. . .

“Please be advised that all foreign travel requests (SF 1175 requests) and any future travel requests involving or potentially involving climate change, sea ice and/or polar bears will also require a memorandum from the regional director to the director indicating who’ll be the official spokesman on the trip and the one responding to questions on these issues, particularly polar bears.”

via DarkSyde