Miami Meteorologists rebukes DeSantis for scrubbing climate change from state law

[BCP1928]

‘THEY‘ use science to scare people with to get $$$.



Sometimes the scientific-community fails to warn our representatives, sufficiently, about the dangers that our techonoly may soon bring to the “marketplace-of-ideas”, (AI), but as I haven’t heard congress really looking into AI very much, I would guess that either the threat isn’t so bad, or scientists are just as weaselly as politicians?

Our elderly and technically illiterate politicians could look into AI but they would n't have a clue about what they were seeing.

 

[The Barbarian]

It's that people think he's an idiot for putting his head in the sand and ignoring the issue.

Stopping the rise won't solely happen because of florida's actions anyways.

There's a certain raw justice in that Florida is one of the states currently taking the worst of climate change. Play stupid games; win stupid prizes. Being unable to insure a home in Florida is just the beginning. Losing your septic tank is annoying and a health hazard, but not the worst thing. More to come.

 

[The Barbarian]

Climate change has always been here and always will be. We adapt or we die.

In the 70’s it was global cooling. We are all supposed to be frozen to death by now.

That was a hoax. Even in the 1970s, most climatologists were predicting warming:

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
THE MYTH OF THE 1970s GLOBAL COOLING SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS
... An enduring popular myth suggests that in the 1970s the climate science community was predicting “global cooling” and an “imminent” ice age, an observation frequently used by those who would undermine what climate scientists say today about the prospect of global warming. A review of the literature suggests that, on the contrary, greenhouse warming even then dominated scientists' thinking as being one of the most important forces shaping Earth's climate on human time scales. More importantly than showing the falsehood of the myth, this review describes how scientists of the time built the foundation on which the cohesive enterprise of modern climate science now rests.
THE MYTH OF THE 1970s GLOBAL COOLING SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS

 

[essentialsaltes]

Southern Florida receives record rainfall and flash flooding in a 500-to-1,000-year event​

The 3.93 inches of rain that fell at the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport in one hour is also a record — and more rain is expected this week.

So rare was Tuesday's rain between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. [8 inches in 3 hours] in Sarasota that it should only be expected every 500 to 1,000 years. The Tampa Bay area can normally expect 7.3 inches in the entire month of June.

More rain is expected throughout this week across the state. The National Weather Service warned residents to expect more than 7 inches of rain in "a prolonged heavy to excessive rainfall event across southern Florida for the next several days," in a forecast early Wednesday.

 

[wing2000]

[8 inches in 3 hours]

...wow.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Southern Florida receives record rainfall and flash flooding in a 500-to-1,000-year event​

The 3.93 inches of rain that fell at the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport in one hour is also a record — and more rain is expected this week.

Ron DeSantis Cuts Stormwater Flooding Funding Amid Florida Deluge​

On June 12, DeSantis signed the state budget after cutting almost $1 billion from the fiscal plan, the Tampa Bay Times reported—including about $205 million in stormwater, wastewater and sewer projects.

The governor also declared a state of emergency Wednesday in five counties—Broward, Collier, Lee, Miami-Dade and Sarasota—after a deluge affected important infrastructure, including major interstates, roads, schools and airports.

 

[wing2000]

Ron DeSantis Cuts Stormwater Flooding Funding Amid Florida Deluge​

On June 12, DeSantis signed the state budget after cutting almost $1 billion from the fiscal plan, the Tampa Bay Times reported—including about $205 million in stormwater, wastewater and sewer projects.

The governor also declared a state of emergency Wednesday in five counties—Broward, Collier, Lee, Miami-Dade and Sarasota—after a deluge affected important infrastructure, including major interstates, roads, schools and airports.

"DeSantis said that while he did not oppose the projects, he wanted them financed differently, by having local communities apply for funds through the Department of Environmental Protection, the Tampa Bay Times reported."

...so he wants the rest of us to pay for his state's storm drains.

 

[Pommer]

"DeSantis said that while he did not oppose the projects, he wanted them financed differently, by having local communities apply for funds through the Department of Environmental Protection, the Tampa Bay Times reported."

...so he wants the rest of us to pay for his state's storm drains.

Well a lot of states up north have saved bundles without having to purchase so much salt/cinder for snow events, so…

 

[The Barbarian]

FL is poised to suffer greatly from human caused climate warming.

Its going to be one of the first states where a home is largely uninsurable. Good to see Ron is on the job!

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – The fallout continues after another major insurance company chose to pull out of Florida’s ailing property insurance market.

Farmers Insurance said Tuesday it will no longer service the Florida insurance market, affecting thousands of automobile, home and umbrella insurance policyholders.
“This business decision was necessary to effectively manage risk exposure,” the company said in a statement.

As Farmers Insurance pulls out, Florida CFO slams company as ‘woke,’ Dems unload on GOP

The fallout continues after another major insurance company chose to pull out of Florida’s ailing property insurance market.

www.local10.com

Jimmy Patronis, CFO of the state, lit into Farmers Insurance for its plans to leave the state on CNBC recently, saying “if they would just leave ESG [environmental, social, and corporate governance ] and put it away, and focus on the bottom line, they may not have made this decision to leave the state of Florida with the tail between their legs.”

“I do say they’re too woke,” he added.

Florida’s CFO blames wokeness for insurers leaving the state: ‘I do call them the Bud Light of the insurance industry’

Four insurers have reduced their exposure in the state following series of disasters.

finance.yahoo.com

You see, it's not mismanagement of climate changes or wrongheaded state insurance changes under DeSantis. It's "woke insurance companies."

 

[durangodawood]

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – The fallout continues after another major insurance company chose to pull out of Florida’s ailing property insurance market.

Farmers Insurance said Tuesday it will no longer service the Florida insurance market, affecting thousands of automobile, home and umbrella insurance policyholders.
“This business decision was necessary to effectively manage risk exposure,” the company said in a statement.

As Farmers Insurance pulls out, Florida CFO slams company as ‘woke,’ Dems unload on GOP

The fallout continues after another major insurance company chose to pull out of Florida’s ailing property insurance market.

www.local10.com

Jimmy Patronis, CFO of the state, lit into Farmers Insurance for its plans to leave the state on CNBC recently, saying “if they would just leave ESG [environmental, social, and corporate governance ] and put it away, and focus on the bottom line, they may not have made this decision to leave the state of Florida with the tail between their legs.”

“I do say they’re too woke,” he added.

Florida’s CFO blames wokeness for insurers leaving the state: ‘I do call them the Bud Light of the insurance industry’

Four insurers have reduced their exposure in the state following series of disasters.

finance.yahoo.com

You see, it's not mismanagement of climate changes or wrongheaded state insurance changes under DeSantis. It's "woke insurance companies."

Absurd and pathetic.

Real world economic consequences are following, predictably, from real world material conditions. And these FL politicians are playing games with "woke" and other nonsense.

Self-absolve and deflect from their ideological - even partisan - head in the sand attitude over the decades. Although, in a way, the politicians are just doing what their deluded "base" demanded: ignore the issue.

 

[The Barbarian]

Self-absolve and deflect from their ideological - even partisan - head in the sand attitude over the decades.

Today, of course, a good scrub with disinfectant would be necessary.