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Post by blindness on Sept 28, 2022 8:22:44 GMT -8
Every time we go through great fires here in California, the issue of global warming and climate change comes up almost automatically. We are, well most of us at least, are aware of what has turned our ordinary fire season into turbo charged calamities.
Is there any similar awareness rising in the state of Florida that you are aware of? Other than a few liberal enclaves, that is. Is the topic ever discussed in the media? Are the lines drawn between the dots?
Just curious.
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Post by hasben on Sept 28, 2022 11:06:15 GMT -8
You very rarely hear climate change or global warming mentioned on the news. As you know state employees were forbidden to ever use the words climate change or global warming in any written or oral communications. Occasionally if some expert is interviewed he may mention it.
Right now SW FL is being devastated with a cat 4 or 5 hurricane and a 12 ft storm surge to bury everything in its path. Parts of Ft Myers and Port Charlotte will be uninhabitable. Every channel since yesterday has had nothing but full time hurricane coverage. I've not heard global warming once. Meteorologists do talk about very warm ocean and gulf temperatures to fuel the hurricane but global warming is never mentioned.
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Post by blindness on Sept 28, 2022 12:10:43 GMT -8
Thanks for the info. Still waiting for the moment right wingers will turn on a dime and claim they never said global warming was a hoax. That day is apparently not around the corner yet.
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Post by hasben on Sept 28, 2022 15:52:18 GMT -8
They will never say that. The thing you have to remember is that in red states like FL global warming is not a scientific issue, it's strictly a political issue. So no, it likely will never change. You know many if not most right dumbos do now acknowledge that things are warming but adamantly deny that man has anything to do with it. Even though they admit there is warming they still refuse to talk about it because it's political.
All of the media outlets avoid it because they don't want to rile their large red customer base or DeSantis.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 29, 2022 8:10:24 GMT -8
MSNBC had a scientist on discussing it in detail.
One shocking statistic. We have a $1 Billion or larger natural disaster due to climate change every 18 days (I assume globally).
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Post by sagobob on Sept 29, 2022 15:38:07 GMT -8
You very rarely hear climate change or global warming mentioned on the news. As you know state employees were forbidden to ever use the words climate change or global warming in any written or oral communications. Occasionally if some expert is interviewed he may mention it. Right now SW FL is being devastated with a cat 4 or 5 hurricane and a 12 ft storm surge to bury everything in its path. Parts of Ft Myers and Port Charlotte will be uninhabitable. Every channel since yesterday has had nothing but full time hurricane coverage. I've not heard global warming once. Meteorologists do talk about very warm ocean and gulf temperatures to fuel the hurricane but global warming is never mentioned. Storm surge is one thing, rising salt levels in Florida's groundwater is another. I would guess that FL is in denial on the latter. cnsmaryland.org/2020/11/23/salt-levels-in-floridas-groundwater-rising-at-alarming-rates-nuke-plant-is-one-cause/ |
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