https://newrepublic.com/post/175301/desantis-rejected-350-million-climate-funding-florida-hurricane-idalia
The Florida governor rejected millions in climate funding. Now his state is suffering from a storm fueled by climate change.
I live in Florida and this guy is a fucking plague on the state. But that’s what happens when your state is a punching bag and piggy bank for grifter politicians. Businesses and politicians here work from an ethics book that is all blank pages.
But that’s what happens when your state is a punching bag and piggy bank for grifter politicians.
It's actually just what happens when people vote for Republicans. They believe climate change is a hoax and they use it to rile up their base.
There are some grifter Democrats as well, but most Democrats generally take climate change and the environment seriously. Most Republicans don't.
I can actually understand that he denied to accept the funding. It's hard to claim that climate change is a hoax on one side, and on the other side take money to fix the problems caused by this "non-existent" issue.
That hasn't stopped republicans before, like denying covid exists, but I'll take that covid money.
Let's offer the funding directly to individuals. We'll call the program something fun like "Biden Bucks" or "Brandon Aid". The conservatives can choose to suffer while normal people will still be able to get the aid they need.
Conservatives would gladly shoot their own toes off if the disturbance would upset the normal people.
The political climate is rough down here. Neither side looks appealing, I feel like the blues haven't put a competitive pick up for a long time.
I hope we see Biden respect Republican/undecided voters that can be swayed. I've seen enough from his campaign messaging to give me hope that he will.
It can help limit how hot the water gets, and therefore how quickly future storms intensify.
Oh, i got that. Wasnt saying that we shouldnt be working towards fixing the issue, was more a comment on the wording of the article like it would have prevent this particular storm lol. Was sarcasm mostly.
It's really hard to be sarcastic in a way that doesn't come across as denial. I tend to avoid it for that reason.
I just saw a video that showed it's possible the pollution that cargo ships were emitting were actually seeding enough clouds to somewhat limit the sunlight that hit and warmed the ocean. This effect stopped recently when they were ordered to stop emitting so much of that pollution.
If it's true they were actually helping accidentally, we could spray ocean water and the salt could actually seed clouds in the same way.
If it works, it would be like a bandaid on climate change to keep the ocean temps a few degrees cooler for awhile.
They can limit their own greenhouse gas emissions, by doing things like subsidizing the conversion of homes which currently use fossil fuels for heating, hot water heating, and cooking to not do so, as well as subsidize solar panels on home roofs.
This won't lower temperatures from where they are now, but it does reduce the future increase.
Also, it let's people know the issue is serious. If places like Florida that are suffering the effects of climate change already don't take it seriously, when it's to their benefit now, why should other places do anything when it doesn't affect them yet.
Of course they should, and it will.
If they would extract heat from the air or even the water, it would actually help. Not by leaps and bounds but it would at least be carbon negative.
Not to any meaningful degree: the heating from CO2 emitted when your burn coal for energy is about 100000x more than the heat produced from the burning.
That's why the big action which needs to happen is to stop burning fossil fuels.
Greenhouse gases added to the atmosphere are what is causing warming:
Spend money on avoiding the need to burn stuff to generate electricity, heat homes, heat water, or cook, and you can prevent them from being added to the atmosphere, preventing some of the increase in temperature.