I’m sure we’ll hear some sort of righteous outrage over this story in the New York Times. Apparently, the Fish and Wildlife Service has told two of its employees not to discuss climate change in an official capacity:

The director of the Fish and Wildlife Service defended the agency requirement that two employees going to international meetings on the Arctic not discuss climate change, saying diplomatic protocol limited employees to an agreed-on agenda.
Two memorandums written about a week ago and reported by The New York Times and the Web site of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Thursday set strict parameters for what the two employees could and could not discuss at meetings in Norway and Russia.
The stipulations that the employees “will not be speaking on or responding to” questions about climate change, polar bears and sea ice are “consistent with staying with our commitment to the other countries to talk about only what’s on the agenda,” said the director of the agency, H. Dale Hall.

They’re not prohibited from talking about the subject, of course (the story says that they’re allowed to discuss their views “over a beer”), they’re just prohibited from talking about in their roles as representatives of the U.S. government–a perfectly reasonable thing. The pro-global warming policy folks, on the other hand, haven’t exactly been accommodating to scientists who don’t share their views.