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Here's what's super duper great about this Johnny-come-lately realization by the Florida GOP - Trump's going to host the G7 Summit IN FLORIDA next year and guess what? They won't be talking about climate change!!!


 


Florida GOP leaders finally utter ‘sea level rise,’ lament ‘lost decade’




For the first time in a decade, a Florida Senate committee scheduled a meeting Monday to discuss the impact of climate change on the peninsula state.

What did senators learn?

“We lost a decade,’’ said Sen. Tom Lee, the Thonotosassa Republican who chairs the Committee on Infrastructure and Security.

He began the 90-minute hearing with three words that have not come from the lips of a Republican state senator in years: “Sea level rise.”

“There hasn’t been a lot of conversation about this. I understand that, and I understand why,’’ he continued, leaving unsaid that the words “climate change” were banned from the lexicon for much of the eight-year tenure of former Gov. Rick Scott, and the state’s response to it was not considered a priority.

But Lee, who served in the Senate for the last six years of Scott’s term, said he believes there has been “a paradigm shift” with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis — who followed the lead of local governments in Florida and appointed a “chief resilience officer” to start talking about the effects of global warming on the state.

The new landscape comes with new political realities, Lee said. “There’s a younger generation of conservatives in this state that aren’t as much in denial.”
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Idiots.

 
From the VOX article:

I’ve been tracking their progress. In January, I wrote about their initial finding, that Colorado could save $2.5 billion through 2040 by shutting down all its coal plants. In August, I wrote about the second paper, which found that electrifying the state’s transportation fleet is the single biggest decarbonization step it could take and would save consumers money.
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If you're fiscally conservative, then you should be in favor of these measures just on economic grounds alone.

 
commando said:
while we are "making coal great again" the rest of the world is thinking up stuff like this
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Well you know, the green new deal, which puts money into research like this is communism. We cant have that in this country now can we?

We are going to lose out on so much money from being the world leader in this type of research because we cant even agree if climate change is real. Sad!

 
RedDenver said:
Well, you're like reasonable and stuff. I'm curious how many that call themselves fiscally conservative won't support this even though it's clearly the fiscally conservative choice.
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Depends what you mean by "support." If you mean that the government mandates the shutdown of coal plants, then no. If you mean putting incentives in place to encourage a faster transition to zero emission energy, then yes. If the economics make sense, then energy companies will make this transition on their own without being mandated. 

 
ActualCornHusker said:
Depends what you mean by "support." If you mean that the government mandates the shutdown of coal plants, then no. If you mean putting incentives in place to encourage a faster transition to zero emission energy, then yes. If the economics make sense, then energy companies will make this transition on their own without being mandated. 
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That was a reasonable plan 10+ years ago. There isn't enough time to wait for energy companies to decide not to destroy the planet or for the economics to work themselves out.

Actually, it might be too late already to avoid, and now we're in a race to minimize the worst of the damage:

Climate emergency: world 'may have crossed tipping points’

And we're actually accelerating climate change

Climate Change Is Accelerating

 
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RedDenver said:
That was a reasonable plan 10+ years ago. There isn't enough time to wait for energy companies to decide not to destroy the planet or for the economics to work themselves out.

Actually, it might be too late already to avoid, and now we're in a race to minimize the worst of the damage:

Climate emergency: world 'may have crossed tipping points’

And we're actually accelerating climate change

Climate Change Is Accelerating
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Yeah... I suppose if you subscribe to climate doomsday dogma then that's true... 

You also have to consider that as the technology currently stands in regards to wind and solar, they require backup power sources for when there's no wind or sun, respectively. We currently do not have the technology to store excess power generated by these systems.

 
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