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State, which just had its hottest year since 1895, will ban offshore wind power, boost natural gas and reduce gas pipeline rules

Archived version: https://archive.ph/he3iK

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (4 children)

FFS, are the people of Florida really dumb enough to keep this asshole in office???

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes. My mother and sister are pretty damn stupid.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Sorry to hear that.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago

The voting block is retirees who only have maybe 10 years left to live at max. They don't give a fuck what happens long term so long as they can own the libs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

He'll be a senator next FML.

[–] takeda 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It must be the lead in the pipes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Close, it's the lead (poisoning) in the Boomers.

[–] LEDZeppelin 26 points 5 months ago

Can’t wait to visit beach towns on the southern border of Georgia

[–] Stern 25 points 5 months ago

State literally sinking into the ocean, insurance companies fleeing because they can't make money due to storms of the century happening yearly, but yeah can't be climate change, that'd be silly.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Ron DeSantis: We're going to start a new life.... 🎶under the sea🎶

[–] JiveTurkey 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm actually for this. With their home insurance marked on the verge of collapse and thus their housing market, I kind of just want to watch it all burn at this point. I only ask that we withhold any federal aid and disaster relief when they get shit on by mother nature.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That would be cruel to the people hit by a natural Desaster, people that might not be on board with this law at all.

Further it would just give the right wings nuts a reason to point to how evil Democrats are.

I instead propose to create a safety fund on the federal level that can be used to support states hit by natural Desaster. Just call it something realy obvious, like the "Climate Change Damge Mitigation Fund". Make it a requirement that states publicly announce how much money they are asking for from said fund.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The people voted this way. It's only sad for a tiny minority of people living in Florida AND reality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Not a tiny minority

[–] JiveTurkey 3 points 5 months ago

I too feel bad for the few who see that this is a bad policy but what you're suggesting is basically what they're already doing and no matter what we call the fund it's just going to be enabling poor policy makers to keep doing what they do.

[–] TheBat 11 points 5 months ago

It doesn't matter if you believe in climate change.

Climate change believes in you!

[–] PedroMaldonado 10 points 5 months ago

So...."LALALALA! I CANT HEAR YOU" Is this guy's plan....

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The seas can't rise fast enough. Someone needs to start carpet bombing the pythons and gators and feral pigs with growth hormones.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You're my favorite person rn.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Definitely the most pressing problem in Florida right now. Absolutely.

[–] Rapidcreek 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it is just a matter of time before the entire property insurance industry in Florida collapses.

The stupid ass Republicans can deny climate change all they want; the insurance industry believes in it and knows what's coming

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Property insurance? Florida as a whole is about to be completely underwater, potentially within a matter of decades. They've got bigger problems than property insurance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Florida as a whole is about to be completely underwater

FYI, the north-central Florida is literally the foothills of the Appalachian mountains.

[–] Rapidcreek 5 points 5 months ago

Not completely. Hyperbole kills rational thought.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

LOL, Gov. Clownboots should sign a law that makes ocean acidification illegal before Miami collapses into the sea.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ron DeSantis went to Harvard and has the critical thinking skills of someone who bought his degree from Harvard.

Climate scientist predict the planet will heat up to 3 degrees more. And this dum dum is thinking he can swat it away if people just don't talk about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The angry mobs will come for him eventually

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

This is worse than the idea of putting giant ice cubes in the ocean.

[–] Allonzee 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Henceforth, in Florida, climate change will now be referred to as 🔥The doom that must not be named🔥

There, way less scary now.

[–] uberdroog 4 points 5 months ago

I guess there will be some sad faces when they ask their insurance company why their policies have been dropped.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

It's that "if I can't see it, it doesn't exist" mentality. My cat acts like that, because she gets surprised every time something comes back into view and still exists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Old people hate being reminded that their leaving us all with an apocalyptic scenario of their own making.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

He is the 'new' Florida man, but in power and hates everything nice in the world.

[–] BetaBlake 1 points 5 months ago

Doesn't make it any less real dipshit