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As climate change makes Florida boil, DeSantis might respond with the ‘delete’ button | Opinion
The Miami Herald | DNC ^ | March 30, 2024 | BY THE MIAMI HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD

Posted on 03/30/2024 5:46:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

If there is a magic way to stop climate change from wreaking havoc on Florida, reverse sea-level rise and lower the kind of scalding summer temperatures Miami saw last year, lawmakers may have figured it out.

It’s called denial.

It hasn’t worked in past decades. A 2023 report by scientists, published in the journal Bioscience, warned that inaction to reduce carbon emissions is driving the planet toward “dangerous instability.” (The highest Earth temperature ever recorded happened last July).

Apparently, the Republican-dominated Legislature’s plan on how to address climate change in Florida before it’s too late is to hit the “delete” button — literally.

House Bill 1645 is reminiscent of the days when then-Gov. Rick Scott’s administration stopped state workers from using “climate change” in their official communication. The new legislation, approved in the 2024 session, removes most mentions of the term from state law, among other things.

This legislation only steers Florida toward keeping its reliance on fossil fuels.

The bill also bans offshore windmills. Florida doesn’t attract that kind of renewable energy today because of its lower wind speeds, but that could change as technology evolves. Critics worry the ban could scare innovation away from the state in the future, the Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau reported.

The climate is changing and negative consequences are already here. Last summer, Miami set 10 daily temperature records and 27 daily heat index records, the Herald reported.

Deleting the words “climate change” might make it easier for lawmakers to escape accountability. But it makes it no easier for South Florida to deal with its very real impacts.

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; press; propaganda
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1 posted on 03/30/2024 5:46:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

unscientific claptrap.


2 posted on 03/30/2024 5:49:36 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We’re in a weather cycle. In fact, every fifty years we get into a repeat pattern. It’s a shame that this cycle feeds into the environmental jerks.


3 posted on 03/30/2024 5:49:53 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ah, the scienc-challenged media uses some of their fave words “climate change” words - “climate change” and “boil”.

Which, of course, means they have no argument. Shove it, you mere media nothings. You couldn’t pass ANY frosh 101 STEM course, and you keep imagining that you actually know anything about real science.


4 posted on 03/30/2024 5:51:21 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yes....we all remember freezing in Florida...NOT

It's in a "hot zone"...and nothing has changed since they discovered the place.

5 posted on 03/30/2024 5:52:16 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

https://twitter.com/IamRedPilled2/status/1773663686290203032


6 posted on 03/30/2024 5:54:50 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"The highest Earth temperature ever recorded happened last July"

BULLSH!T!

7 posted on 03/30/2024 5:57:35 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah we gotta do something soon, the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere is 0.04% or zero point zero and if it gets any higher it will reach zero point zero.


8 posted on 03/30/2024 6:00:02 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: high info voter

progressives...they just Say stuff.


9 posted on 03/30/2024 6:00:09 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

We can do something about CO2- if all the climate change loons who are concerned about the earth took it upon themselves to jump off a bridge and become part of the solution rather than remain part of a problem they believe exists, the earth would be saved!!!


10 posted on 03/30/2024 6:02:18 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

there’s certainly no denying the Miami Herald’s delusional insanity


11 posted on 03/30/2024 6:02:39 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There’s no magic way to turn off eco-fanatics, but you could stop being their press agent who republishes their garbage on FR.


12 posted on 03/30/2024 6:03:21 AM PDT by devere
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To: high info voter

Ask the enviros how sure they are that the optimal temperature for the planet isn’t 2C higher than now. Tell them the. Planet is struggling to get to it’s natural state but all their efforts are slowing it down.

Once I realized that you can’t have a rational discussion with GW cultists, I find it more enjoyable for me to mess with their heads. The goal is not to win an argument. The goal is to talk them in circles until they leave you alone. It works with telescammers too.


13 posted on 03/30/2024 6:04:30 AM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Temperatures tend to even out. Florida complained of a cold winter.

Here's why there have been so many chilly days this winter in South Florida February 24, 2024

It's no doubt the winter in South Florida has been different compared to previous years.

Since the start of the winter season, we've continuously seen bouts of chilly spells and stormy conditions as well as severe weather more often than usual.

January was a wetter than normal month for parts of South Florida and now February has been chillier with afternoon highs staying below seasonal averages.

To understand why its been chillier and wetter this winter season, we have to go beyond our local forecast and look at the big picture.

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/chilly-days-this-winter-in-south-florida/3242109/

14 posted on 03/30/2024 6:04:32 AM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You can only have this climate change propaganda dominating a large number of people’s fears during a time when there is nothing else threatening them. That’s not to say that some people are not struggling to survive, they are. But those people are not remotely concerned with climate change. Climate change can only be entertained as important by people who are wealthy, well fed, safe and comfortable. For those people it’s like the enjoyment of a good horror movie. It’s essentially entertainment. They get to attend protests and get the feeling of social superiority. If there truly was a real disaster on the horizon, a meteor, global war, a real pandemic you wouldn’t find a single click going to an article like this one.


15 posted on 03/30/2024 6:07:43 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The problem with Democrats here in Florida is they have taken one beating after another, 4 straight, 2-term Republican Governors, super majorities in both houses of the state legislature, 2 Republican Senators, and 20 of 28 Republican Congressmen and no Democrat holds a statewide office for the first time since Reconstruction, their solution to all those loses is to get even more liberal and hysterical.

The people who have risen to be the voices of the Democrats in Florida are Berkeley Progressives who are getting more and more desperate.

The last Democrat who held a statewide was was Nikki Fried who was the agriculture commissioner, she recently ran against DeSantis and was defeated in the primary by Charlie Crist, she is now Florida DNC chairman and is the epitome of the raving lunatic liberal.


16 posted on 03/30/2024 6:07:45 AM PDT by srmanuel ( )
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To: napscoordinator

The climate alarmists should be going after the real polluters, like China and India.


17 posted on 03/30/2024 6:08:21 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is in fact real and unabated change in Miami.

Miami is becoming and may actually already be a new financial capital formed by companies fleeing New York City.

The financial climate in New York is terrible and the Florida business climate is attracting serious corporate movement


18 posted on 03/30/2024 6:09:17 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a load of rubbish. I was raised in Miami. Back in the 60s and 70s, when I was a boy/young man there, it was beastly hot. Boiling hot. It is no hotter now. We are being lied to by the purveyors of this global warming scam.


19 posted on 03/30/2024 6:10:31 AM PDT by Blennos ( Byaasea)
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To: tlozo
The climate change farce is the biggest joke ever. However, it is perfect for more and more government control over absolutely every aspect of our life— because it will never, ever end!

How would we ever know we have achieved PERFECT climate? It is ridiuclous.

20 posted on 03/30/2024 6:10:48 AM PDT by volare737
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