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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Oct 15, 2024, 01:39 PM Oct 15

Florida Lawmakers' Climate Denialism Is Pure, Unadulterated Lunacy

Climate change will only make future hurricane seasons worse. So why are Florida legislators pretending like nothing’s amiss?

Hurricanes Helene and Milton were both scarier than any Halloween movie you might view this month. Scientists say both powerful storms were fueled by climate change.

But for Florida state legislators, climate change is as fictional as Freddy Kreuger. This spring, Governor Ron DeSantis, with the state legislature, passed a law that deleted most references to climate change from state law.

The sponsors for this disappearing act were the dynamic duo of Representative Bobby Payne and Senator Jay Collins, whom I have come to think of as the Penn & Teller of Tallahassee. By removing the words “climate change” and “greenhouse gas emissions,” their law made the whole issue go “poof!” It was just like that time David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty vanish.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/florida-lawmakers-climate-denialism-is-pure-unadulterated-lunacy/ar-AA1sfSP8

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Florida Lawmakers' Climate Denialism Is Pure, Unadulterated Lunacy (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 15 OP
That's one problem w/ FL, that they have too much sand that the repugs bury their heads into, when the SWBTATTReg Oct 15 #1

SWBTATTReg

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1. That's one problem w/ FL, that they have too much sand that the repugs bury their heads into, when the
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 02:04 PM
Oct 15

questions get too tough.

What happens when climate-related flooding is happening, and it's happening now in places like Miami? There were articles on this years ago.

Soon or later, these legislative idiots and the governor will have their collective asses handed to them on a platter, when uncontrolled flooding occurs, and the water has nowhere to go.

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