DeSantis signs Florida bill making climate change a lesser state priority

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

Climate change will be a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes under legislation signed Wednesday by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that also bans power-generating wind turbines offshore or near the state's lengthy coastline.

Critics said the measure made law by the former Republican presidential hopeful ignores the reality of climate change threats in Florida, including projections of rising seas, extreme heat and flooding and increasingly severe storms.

It takes effect July 1 and would also boost expansion of natural gas, reduce regulation on gas pipelines in the state and increase protections against bans on gas appliances such as stoves, according to a news release from the governor's office.

DeSantis, who suspended his presidential campaign in January and later endorsed his bitter rival Donald Trump, called the bill a common-sense approach to energy policy.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/desantis-amid-criticism-signs-florida-bill-making-climate-110278246

[NoMoreRepugs]

1. Common sense and DuhhSantis - I don't think so.

[KPN]

14. Yeah, they're mutually exclusive.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Common Sense

Conservatives use it when they know the idea is incredibly wrong and its effects won’t be fully known until they are out of their current job. The masses will bob their heads and say hell yeah, that’s what we need, common sense.

[bringthePaine]

3. so FL is New Egypt cuz all about DENIAL🤡👍refuKKKchicken BS

[Takket]

4. all this while Floridians are drowning in homeowner's insurance costs because of climate change

hope they appreciate their governor making the problem even worse.

[JoseBalow]

5. "largely disappear from state statutes"

Kind of like the way Florida will largely disappear beneath the sea

[sakabatou]

6. And as rising seas swallow Florida land, DeSatan will STILL have his fingers in his ears

"Lalalala! I can't hear you!"

[Bucky]

7. What a brilliant victory!

Maybe this is how Florida should handle it's meth, fentanyl, gun violence, and alligator problems.

Maybe that's how I'll handle my problems!

- "Bucky, it's your landlord!!! The rent was due 2 weeks ago!"
- "Sorry, chief, but that's a lesser priority to me now"

[mahina]

8. Good luck with that.

Try some of that magic when insurance companies stop writing policies in the sunshine state.

[raccoon]

9. Why doesn't he just sign a bill making climate change illegal? :sarcasm:

[Timeflyer]

10. Item #1, next legislative session.

[mpcamb]

11. As a campaign issue, gather the ways he's cost FL $$. Disney fight, his personal travel

on the state tab, huge increases in home insurance, sending troops out of state, etc.
Rub Florida republican noses in it.

[kimbutgar]

12. Let Mother Nature take its course in Florida and then have Desatan beg for federal assistance!

He is such an evil jerk!

[KPN]

13. Florida needss it's seniors thinned.

[CTyankee]

15. Isn't DeSantis the Harvard-Yale guy?. How did those two distinguished institutions give him degrees with attitudes like

that? Geez...