"There, I fixed it." - Ron DaSantis
this post was submitted on 15 May 2024
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Just like trump's "don't count the sick people and we'll have less sick people."
Just because you shut your eyes and ears doesn't mean the problem went away. But that's the best you can expect coming from republicans these days.
YES IT DOES! LALALALALALALALALA!
I mean, they kinda got it figured out. They don't even have to acknowledge climate change, if hurricanes threaten Florida they can simply redraw the path of the hurricane with a sharpie. Checkmate, liberals.
not going to help businesses ignore the fact its happening. hows your insurance market defuckface?
Gonna build a beach house 5 miles inland and wait a few years.
The peninsula and archipelago state that is statistically most affected by hurricanes, with the majority of its southern coast at less than 4’ (1.2M) elevation, that is already getting gouged by insurance companies, is ignoring climate change.
Bold strategy, Cotton.
I’m not a geologist by any means but isn’t South Florida uniquely screwed by rising sea levels? I’ve read articles about it basically being a geology problem. There’s a layer of porous limestone on top of the bedrock there. So, the types of flood protection you see in the Netherlands, Southeast Louisiana, etc. (levees, sea walls, pumps, etc.) aren’t possible.
Yep. And they're already fighting a losing battle against sea water getting into their freshwater supply. There will come a day when the sea levels have risen enough to make Florida tap water not potable throughout the state.
Yes, you have a reasonably accurate description of the problem. It is possible to buy some years of additional use of some areas (eg: parts of Miami) using pumps to move water back out.
Didn't like the movie, the message was okay.
bad troll is bad
Not trolling, genuinely couldn't stand that movie, I feel it's impossible to bring people around to the idea that it was a shit movie, and I don't need people to feel the same way about it as me to validate my feelings, but I do support the message that it was trying to send (people will remain willfully ignorant) but it didn't send that message in a way that made sense (from a pretty typical progressive). I barely made it through the first viewing, and I'm not giving it another chance.
But sure, I'm a troll, and a bad one at that.
For other things I troll about be sure to check out my review of "rampage", oh wait, that was heartfelt and the person who took my recommendation ended up loving it (inexplicably, I cannot explain why it's so damn... Rampage), and maybe reconsider that while my taste is different, it's conveyed with honestly and sincerity. Don't look up wasn't funny, it wasn't productive, and it wasn't realistic portrayals of people in the slightest, and that combination entirely turned me off from the movie
But you can dismiss me as a bad troll and trot along with the rest of the sheep.
Reality has a liberal bias.
Good thing he doesn’t lead a low lying coastal state that would be heavily impacted by climate change and rising sea levels or this would be super awkward.
His damage total won't be measured in dollars it'll be in meters and lives, if he's lucky there will be nobody left to remember his name.
i guess one plus side of climate change will be watching florida get completely fucked up
If it was exclusively filled with twatwaffles like DeSantis, I would agree. But there's a shitton of people that were born there, have nothing to do with the policies (if not actively voting against the people enacting them), and don't have the resources to up and leave.
Can we sign a bill scrubbing DeSantis from Florida law
From earth.
wow look another republican thinks he can retcon reality