The governor is asked to commit to policies to offset the impacts of climate change; he offers no answer and no comment.
Top Florida climate scientists meet with Gov. Rick Scott hoping for some leadership from the governor whose state is ground zero to be most severely impacted by climate change and rising seas. The Miami Herald reports that what they got was silence and evasion
Scott initially announced that his staff would meet with the scientists but he agreed to personally meet with them only after former Gov. Charlie Crist, a Democratic candidate for governor and climate change believer, announced he would personally meet with the experts.
“This is not complicated,’’ said David Hastings, professor of marine science and chemistry at Eckerd College, before the meeting. “We teach this to 18-year-olds every year and I’ve been doing it for 25 years. It’s not hard science.”
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But Scott and his aide sat silently as Hastings urged the governor’s office to “develop a transparent process” to prepare the plan that “brings all the stakeholders together.” The easy solutions, Hastings said, are to reduce or eliminate coal-fired power plants, increase efficiency to wean the state off carbon-emitting natural gas and oil-fired power, and to develop more alternative energy options.
None of those options are embraced by the state’s electric power industry, however. Scott’s reelection campaign has received more than $800,000 from Florida’s largest electric utility, Florida Power & Light and its parent company NextEra Energy, while the Republican Party of Florida has received more than $700,000 from the energy giant.
Scott would have accomplished more by urging all Floridians to invest in a row boat. Help us get rid of this idiot
give Charlie Crist your support.