Posted on 01/18/2020 7:31:45 AM PST by Libloather
ST. PETERSBURG — As she arrived to speak at the region’s first ever resilience leadership summit, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor came upon a hotel parking lot packed with cars.
Hundreds of people from local governments, universities and scientific consulting firms had shown up Tuesday. Valets at the Hilton in Carillon Park double-parked vehicles, choking the entry.
The scene summarized the day: a symbol both of the growing interest in climate change in Tampa Bay and the enormous hurdles officials face as they aim to curb emissions (from cars, for instance) contributing to rising seas.
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Among the first speakers was Julia Nesheiwat, Florida’s new chief resilience officer, who made news when she explicitly acknowledged climate change at another workshop in Tampa last year. In Florida, where “I’m not a scientist” was a common refrain of top Republicans over the past decade, her blunt assessment signaled a major policy shift.
“It’s music to my ears to hear, now more than ever, that we are really beyond that point of ‘If there is a problem’ to, ‘What are we really doing about it?’ ” Nesheiwat said Tuesday.
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Tampa Bay “leaders” jockey for a place at the “climate change” slop trough.
“How long before we have some kind of Jonestown-type climate change mass suicide to save the planet event(?)”
Can’t really say, but we must keep encouraging them.
If it was entirely made up of progressives, I’m fine with it.
What kind of leadership expects future warming when the geological record predicts radical future cooling ?
Because these elitist asses do NOT want to take public transportation. I catch Libtard hypocrites on this point every time.
Not to hijack the thread, but when you think about ancient civilizations you can appreciate how much more intelligent they were.
I am referring to the fact that so many of them worshipped the SUN.
Please understand that I am not advocating the worship of nature or creation. But we now have scientific evidence that events on the Sun are the dominant determinant of weather on earth.
Sunspots, CMEs, and so many other things that happen millions of miles away ... that is what causes hurricanes, heat waves, and maybe even earthquakes and volcanoes.
then they’ll switch gears and start blaming farting horses for ruining the planet’s atmosphere...
Silly “warmists”...
They don’t need to “...raise taxes and redistribute wealth...”
ALL they need to do is pass a law that reduces the length of the “Summer” and increases the length of the Winter — thereby decreasing the number of “hot” days and inceasing the number of “cold” days!
Problem SOLVED!
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