Yes folks, straight out of Florida, you can’t make this stuff up.
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes had a hard time keeping a straight face as this Florida Department of Environmental Protection worker told his story.
Bart Bibler, a land management plan coordinator, was served with an official reprimand “concerning his discussion of climate change, together with his position that the Keystone XL Pipeline would further aggravate this environmental problem,” according to the complaint filed with the DEP inspector general.
It would appear that regressive Governor Rick Scott’s policy of state workers not being able to talk about climate change isn’t just something for reasonable people to laugh at, it’s a stark reality.
Bibler made the error of letting his feelings about the environmental impact of Keystone be known. Coupled with his acknowledgement that climate change will have Florida all but underwater, he’s been forced to see a psychiatrist to determine if his mental health is stable enough to continue doing his job.
No, you really can’t make this up.
Florida public worker forced to see a psychiatrist for acknowledging climate change and having an opinion on Keystone XL, courtesy of MSNBC:
H/T: All In With Chris Hayes | Image: Screen Capture From Video
Only “right thinking” will be tolerated in Florida!
I predict a huge settlement for Bart Bibler soon.
WHAT?!?!? you mean to tell me this worker has to see a psychiatrist because he doesnt buy into the current political think-speak, and yet a homeless vet (or anyone else) with legitimate mental health issues cannot find the ## nor the facility for care? something is dreadfully wrong with the system, folks? whats it gonna take to pitch us right over the edge?
Leave Florida….run…I did and I do not go back.
Gov.Rick Scott doesn’t need a psychiatrist. He NEEDS to be put in Insane Asylum/Sanitarium!!!!! Besides, what was he smoking???? Wacky and Jimson Weed?????
There is no ‘weed’ on the planet that would make him act like that. The problems IS, he probably NEEDS to smoke some weed. He’s a Resmuglican, the last thing he would do is smoke weed.
the last thing he would do is [get caught smoking] weed.
Fixed it for you.
It’s not Bibler that needs a psych evaluation, it’s Rick Scott and the rest of the delusional Republicans who blindly refuse to accept reality….and will still be denying the truth as their state is slowly covered up in water. By then it will be too late and residents will have plenty of time to regret their stupidity in electing these insane leaders as they flee their drowning homes.
Really? You think that the fact that the predictions that they’ve gloom and doomed us to death with for years haven’t even come close to coming true, and that the worst case scenario they can dream up now doesn’t even come close to being the disaster they want us to believe and the only “fix” for it is for us to hand billions and billions of dollars to Al Gore and his cronies is somehow fact, and to question it is “delusional”? You need to think again. It’s simple. There’s nothing to the “settled science” and since when did a scientific question get settled in less than 200 years, and become closed to discussion? Oh, that’s right. When people make a fortune off it.
So, let’s look at the REALITY, and not the delusional leftist position that somehow we’re going to burn up or drown or whatever the latest chaos theory of global warming… I mean climate change is. The National Weather Service and the USGS started placing testing stations in various locations due to the desire for better weather reporting and predictions for daily services. What does that mean they do? Oh, that’s right. They put them where there are more people. So, you have them where there are more people. Except, where in the US did they start having more people. That’s right. In the South and the Southwest. People started leaving the overpopulated, overpriced California and moving to Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas. People started leaving the over priced New York and under employed Michigan and started moving to North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. What’s so outstanding about those states that people left? Cold or moderate temperatures for the most part. What’s outstanding about the states where people went to? Hot. So, if you look at the weather monitoring stations in the last 40 years, they’ve been growing by leaps and bounds in the hotter climates and not growing at all in the colder climates. Do you think POSSIBLY that the total average change in climate on new stations versus old stations might have SOMETHING to do with the average readings? Oh, that’s right, you’d have to actually THINK to be able to understand that concept. Now, let’s look at the next piece to destroy your fictional “global warming” or “climate change” or “give Al Gore and his cronies as much money as we can rape from the general public because he should have been President and that evil Bush stole it from him”. You do understand that we’ve had slightly over 130 years of measurements. I have to guess that we’ve had roughly 200,000 years of humans on the Earth. So, in that entire time, it’s always been this current level of temperature, correct? Never been colder, or hotter. And that’s a good thing. because if it had been colder or hotter, well, we would have had ice ages, maybe, say, 13 thousand years or so ago. We would have never had wine from Greenland, and certainly wouldn’t have had temperatures on average at least 7 degrees hotter than it is now in FLORIDA a thousand or so years ago and still had land there. Sorry, but history proves that the psychotic delusions of “climate change” are just that.
Please come play again when you feel like addressing things with facts, because when you call people who “deny” climate change “delusional” you’re showing you don’t know what you’re talking about.
I think you need to go in for a psychiatric evaluation.
ANYONE who thinks forbidding the use of “climate change” is a valid order is in SERIOUS need of psychiatric adjustment. Get REAL, Scott. Ain’t. Gonna. FLY.
Next time, offenders of Ricky’s edict will be “wished into the corn field”.
One of my all time favorite allusions!
I’ll admit…I had to look it up.
Good one.
Bart Bibler, the latest inductee to the Galileo club.
You have that backwards. Those who believed the sun rotated around the Earth declared it absolute scientific fact. Those who challenged it were called crazy, were tortured, were excommunicated and more. They were the “deniers” of their time. One was brave enough to stand up and actually put together scientific proof and then he was not only excommunicated, but was forced to recant under torture, but the proof was already out there.
You Global Warming cultists are the Earthers of today. Those that dare to challenge your cult are called crazy, heretics, dangerous and threatened. We’re kicked out of scientific discussions because we haven’t fallen for the cult mentality. So, you have it backwards. You’re the Catholic Church, trying to sweep science under the rug with the “It’s settled science”, and denying any chance for anyone to bring counter proof to the table. Labeling anyone who doesn’t believe in your cult as outsiders or stupid. It’s a cult. Break your bonds and look at the truth.
I believe you mean religious scientific “fact”
No, I was very clear. The global warming crowd is a cult. You just like being sucked in.
I think he did a pretty good job of showing the absurdity of the situation. Perhaps it will help in shaming Scott into allowing people to do their jobs without having to twist their wording to avoid “bad words” that are anything but.
What am I saying, it’s Rick Scott. The only thing that will help is his removal from office.
Oh I wish that were true, but I’m fairly certain that Rick Scott and the other radical Republicans are incapable of the emotion of shame. They would have to be to hold their heads up in public after some of the horrible things they have done.
Does “1984” ring a bell? Govspeak is here.
Bryan, I do not agree with your position, but I am not going to try to force you to undergo psychiatric evaluation.
As opposed to the people who were fired, and publicly humiliated and blocked from working in any job that had anything to do with science for failing to believe the leftist side of things? Wow. Talk about revisionist history.
lol yea, okay
I love all the references you give, they really make your point!