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Environment & Energy

Rhiannon12866

(222,123 posts) Sat Jun 8, 2024, 01:10 AM Jun 2024

Ron DeSantis signs bill that deletes climate change from Florida state law. Anthony Davis reports. - FIVE MINUTE NEWS

Misinformation spread by climate deniers such as Florida’s extremist Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, increases the “vulnerability” of communities in the path of severe weather events, scientists are warning.

Earlier this month, DeSantis signed a law erasing the words “climate change” from Florida statutes and in effect pledging the state’s future to burning fossil fuels, a significant contributory factor in global warming and an unprecedented “supersizing” of hurricanes’ destructive power. - 06/07/2024.

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Ron DeSantis signs bill that deletes climate change from Florida state law. Anthony Davis reports. - FIVE MINUTE NEWS (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Jun 2024 OP

Up Next: deSantis deletes de hurricanes. yonder Jun 2024 #1

This sorry excuse for a human being is pure evil. Dem2theMax Jun 2024 #2

Yay. Problems solved. Easterncedar Jun 2024 #3

And insurers will just stop insuring homes in Florida for no reason at all I guess. ihaveaquestion Jun 2024 #4

Wow. And this represents the entire GOP, save a very few members. CoopersDad Jun 2024 #5