[MCN] Zinke tells National Park Sup't to shut up about climate change

[Lance Olsen]

Zinke reprimanded park head after climate tweets
BY TIMOTHY CAMA <http://thehill.com/author/timothy-cama> - 12/15/17 05:34 AM EST
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/364994-zinke-reprimanded-park-head-after-climate-tweets <http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/364994-zinke-reprimanded-park-head-after-climate-tweets>
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke <http://thehill.com/people/ryan-zinke> brought the leader of a California park to his office last month to reprimand him for climate change-related tweets <http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/359405-official-national-park-account-tweets-about-overwhelming-consensus> the park had sent via Twitter, two sources close to the situation said.

Zinke did not take any formal disciplinary action against David Smith, superintendent of Joshua Tree National Park. And the tweets at issue weren’t deleted, because they didn’t violate National Park Service or Interior Department policies.

But Zinke made it clear to Smith that the Trump administration doesn’t want national parks to put out official communications on climate change.

And by bringing Smith from California to Washington, D.C., to deliver the tongue-lashing, he also sent a message to the park service at large.

One source said Smith “got a trip to the woodshed” and described his one-on-one meeting with Zinke as “highly unusual.”

Another source said Zinke expressed concern with the tweets during the meeting, and told Smith “no more climate tweets.”

Other sources with knowledge of the meeting confirmed that Zinke wanted to stop tweets about climate change.

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"For decades, we called it ‘global warming,’ an innocuous-sounding phrase invoking a gentle increase in worldwide temperatures, like turning up the thermostat in a house.”

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/content/from-sea-to-rising-sea-climate-change-in-america

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