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US Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list

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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Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list

www.politico.com /news/2025/09/28/energy-department-climate-change-emissions-banned-words-00583649

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US Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list

www.politico.com /news/2025/09/28/energy-department-climate-change-emissions-banned-words-00583649

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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.
- 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.

It's odd to me that they even have a banned words list to begin with
- 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.
  
  "Free speech" for republicans is just "I want to say the worst hateful, racist, bigoted shit out loud without repercussions"
  
  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.
- The government is owned by billionaires and they ban words that make line go up slower.
  
  Whoever has the biggest bunker wins.
- It is, literally, a fascist government. Why is this surprising to anyone?
  People who were paying attention warned that they would operate as a fascist government. People still thought it would be cool to vote 3rd party or not vote. Now it's happening.
  
  Dude I voted for your lady chill out
- I'm not sure how they mean it here. But "banned words" aren't always meaning censorship. In an academic or journalistic sense it can just mean replacing words with more accurate phrasing or more clearly defined words to ensure consistency.
  Unfortunately, it's also used to spin a narrative or outright censor things as well. Like the NYT banning the word "genocide" during an active genocide.
  
  Lol ok

Still can't believe the government has a banned word list for scientific reports.
- They're just working up to banning science.
  
  You mean banning ~~science~~ liberal shit talk non facts?
  (how every conversation starts looking next year)
  
  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.
- If that is the case, the reports are not scientific.

It looks like “global warming” and “pollution” are back in the menu, boys!
- 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
  
  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?
  
  It doesn't matter? Of course it fucking matters

Can't wait until enough people are upset that the guillotines come out.
- There are very few things more terrifying than a civil war. Americans jumping straight to wishing for one, ignoring millions of less murdery ways to fix their country never stops creeping me out. You guys are deeply fucked in more ways then one.
  
  To clarify: Not American
  Soo, how exactly are you planning to fix the shitshow that the states are in rn? A leader heavily leaning to totalitarianism, most of executive power in the hands of his cronies, and you get shit like national guard unlawfully stationed in major cities, while censoring many of new-age issues and executive orders left and right that legalize bribery a remove power in order for him to stay in power.
  And don't fucking say to "just vote". Apparently it didn't work so much last time.
  Don't even get me started on trying to educate the people. 8 hours work, 1 hour commute, 8 hours sleep, taking care of kids, house, and you are left with like 4. What are you gonna do? Argue with paid trolls online and absolutely waste energy? Slip into people's DMs to talk about politics? Make videos that probably 10 people will see, at most?
  
  I'd love to legislatively fix all this.
  But fascists aren't known for allowing fair elections.
  So I think that ship sailed in November 2024 while a bunch of fucking losers were protest voting or not voting at all.
  America was warned. America didn't listen.
  
  Guillotines don't mean civil war at all. Guillotines mean that the population at large has decided to act. They are deliberate, not something that suddenly stabs someone in the back or shoots them in the head. It takes time to set up. I wouldn't call them a weapon at all - they are a consequence.
  (Partially paraphrasing from a post on another platform a long time ago. Only remember it vaguely.)
  
  What is your best scenario to avoid civil war in the US? Offer a suggestion instead of just complaining. You seem passionate about this so surely you have some suggestions that absolutely should be attempted first
- https://youtu.be/rZFxZmDNlV8

The Trump regime is a terrorist organization and should be treated as such.
- The only way they could be more of a threat to us is if they were literally holding guns to our heads. And we may not be far off from that.
  They are America's enemies. They are democracy's enemies.
  
  Depending on the skin colour, you're already there.

I do genuinely wonder if America can survive this perfect storm of idiotic fascism.
- 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.
  
  It's pretty grim here.
  The other day I watched Contagion, and it was so alien and comforting to see governmental organizations make a consistently rational response to a crisis, rather than they themselves manufacture the crisis.
- We'll survive. It'll just be a shithole.
  North Korea exists. It's a shithole.
  Sudan exists. It's a shithole.
  Iran exists. It's a shithole.
  We're just gonna be another shithole.
  
  Makes surviving not something one would envy tho

It doesn't get any more 1984 than the government banning words they think are icky.

Fuck these assholes, fuck this country, fuck everything.

Climate unaliving
- Ecological sewer slide

Classic ministry of truth
- 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.

Because the old "$2.99 looks more like 2 dollars than 3 dollars" works on the masses they discovered that through social fuckery and behaviourism they are able to make us think and do almost anything. Fuck this bullshit. Let's find the warm sun again and start building a future and leave all of this power crap behind.
- LoL, we're not gonna have anything but the "warm" sun in the near future.

Y'all upset about all this... orbital heating? We really should reduce the amount of gassy leakages from cars and cows.
- Too many car farts makes air go hot hot.

Other terms officials must ditch include “energy transition,” “sustainability/sustainable,” “‘clean’ or ‘dirty’ energy,” “Carbon/CO2 ‘Footprint’” and “Tax breaks/tax credits/subsidies.”
Can't wait for press conferences from these officials to be stripped down to Kevin's level.

Ah yes Free Speech
- Free speech (conservative newspeak): Calling black people the N-word and not receiving any social backlash.

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose ~~emission~~ was like that of horses.
Ezekiel 23:20

Enemies of humankind

“Freeze peach” and all that.
- what did peach do to deserve being frozen?

climate.nasa.gov still works, for now.
- Shhh don't tell them
  
  Good point.

Back to global warming?
- World-wide uncoldification.

Planetary abuse repercussions is a more accurate label, I say let's use that in place.
- The problem is that changing the name makes it much harder for people to find and collate evidence.

Wouldn't it be easier to just ban all reports, period? Problem solved.
- That's phase 2 of the republicans plan

What else is there to say but arm the workers
- Organize the workers. Many are already armed but it doesn't help without organization.
  
  A cohesive unstoppable coordinated effort, not limited to a single service. Leveraging every method of communication from CB radio, to Internet, to satellite SMS, to ensure it can not be stopped.

Don't you use the word emission quite a bit in nuclear?
- Now they're just immigrant protons.
- And aren't ground wires green?

Gonna make it illegal to look up next?

Global hotting

Assholes have never even heard of a thesaurus. Plus, we now have AI at our backs. Behold, what ChatGPT ginned up for me a second ago:
Global heating
Planetary warming
Atmospheric instability
Rising planetary temperatures
Ecological overheating
Weather system disruption
Global temperature shift
Planetary imbalance
Atmospheric warming trend
Earth system disturbance
Heat-driven weather extremes
Long-term planetary warming
Rising global heat levels
Ecological destabilization
Planet-wide heat surge
Environmental overheating
Temperature-driven disruption
Global heat imbalance
Accelerated warming of Earth
Planetary-scale weather disruption
I get that this works as long as they're willing to play by the rules they set. But if it comes down to getting the word out, and silencing science that could save lives, it's worth trying.

- Can’t believe you cut the other half out
  
  As someone who read the book and is hunting down an original for less than 8 thousand euros, I can safely say that this would definitely be in the book.
  
  I've read it! Or have I? There's a lot of discussion around it, but I listened to the audiobook, so I'll let you decide for yourself, but at least I know the full story.

Ha ha ha, nice try. This is like trying to convince someone you never fart. Proof of idiocy.

1984 Much???

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.

When you ignore a problem, it goes away.
Dark future.

When I grow up and become president I’m gonna ban homework and vegetables!

"What colour should we paint this wall?"
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