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Denying climate change doesnt stop its devastating effects.
As Hurricane Michael rips through homes and communities, we send our sympathies to all those in its path, but lets also review what some leading Florida residents have said about climate change.
One of the most preposterous hoaxes in the history of the planet, scoffed Rush Limbaugh of Palm Beach. Gov. Rick Scotts administration went so far as to bar some agencies from even using the term climate change, according to the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (Scott denied this).
Myopic Floridians have plenty of company. President Trump dismissed climate change as a hoax created by and for the Chinese. Senator James Inhofe, a Republican of Oklahoma, disproved climate change by taking a snowball onto the Senate floor and noting that it was chilly outside; using similarly rigorous scientific methods, he wrote a book about climate change called The Greatest Hoax.
Alas, denying climate change doesnt actually prevent it. North Carolina passed a law in 2012 prohibiting the use of climate science in certain state planning, yet that didnt intimidate Hurricane Florence last month. And banning the words climate change isnt helping Florida now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/opinion/climate-change-hurricane-michael.html