newrepublic.com/post/181622/ron-desantis-climate-change-florida-law
Ron DeSantis Makes “Climate Change Isn’t Real” Official Florida Law
Well it should at least stop the sea level from rising. The ocean isn’t known for breaking Florida law.
He sounds like a modern-day King Canute, the English king who tried to stop the tides.
Okay, so it was demonstration by him that despite being king, he had no power over the natural elements, but it's still a relevant story today.
Maybe closer to Caligula, who declared war on the sea god and had his soldiers stab the ocean with spears?
Caligula was also known for appointing senators that he had sex with.
He appointed two horses as senators.
I’d like this comparison to end here.
Thank you, my thought path traveled down this road as well.
I mean, the Gods were kind of a problem in many peoples lives. One could say that they at least identified a problem but extremely fumbled on the solution.
Meanwhile, Desantis is refusing to even acknowledge the problem exists at all.
And when was the last time you heard about Neptune causing a problem? Caligula obviously did something right. DeSantis is a complete idiot though.
Caligula translates to little boots. Why aren’t we calling Desantes this?
Then DeSantis could arrest the ocean.
Signage needs to be erected at all Florida beaches stating, “No rising sea levels allowed”. The sign must face the ocean of course.
Perfect trolling. Do this.
yeah i wonder if desantis has connections in the real estate industry that is looking to sell off coastal properties to right wing poor people before they get washed away
Omg how reprehensible
But very republican
"Land in Florida" is one of America's oldest scams.
Genuinely curious what the climate change denial argument is against insurance companies beginning to refuse to cover certain states/regions? I mean, can't we all agree that money doesn't lie?
Probably just "they're agents of the illuminati" or some other nonsense
Also the Military, they have been actively preparing for, and predicting conflict because of climate change for a long time now.
Yes exactly, these arguments seem irrefutable but yet there's always some counter.
How long until we can post this on r/leopardsatemyface ? You can barely even buy property insurance down there because climate change has made storms so bad it’s knocking houses over left and right
Lack of affordable property insurance is gonna kill property values in Southern Florida.
Not really….the wealthy can afford it!! Maybe when a hurricane decimates an area, but other than that, it’s insane.
And then they will beg for a government handout
Yeah, most likely. Or it will be a repeat of Fort Myers. Life-long residents won’t be able to afford to rebuild, & corporations will come in and buy the land cheap, and local government will make it easy for them to build.
Probably. My take a a non American is that most republican politicians get their votes by chanting freedom but really are promoting corporatism.
Party of small government basically wants to control your life. Say one thing do another blame Democrats
And for some reason this works. Especially in the states and areas with the worst public education.
As an American, I agree.
Sure. Because the wealthy don't depend on the rest of us, working for them. /s
Truth that. My nephew is a CEO and they have a Naples FLA home. Been damaged 4 times by hurricanes. The last one, the worst, the house was underwater except for the roof. Insurance has paid for the damage each time. In their recent one, they made the house better than it was..ie fancier, added more rooms etc. they are on a canal. Their insurance rates per year are incredible…
Definition of insanity.
Where are all the career criminals and scumbags supposed to secure their Illegal cash if not in FL real estate?
his face is being eaten by leopards as we speak. under his "leadership" the great state of florida is going under.
quite literally.
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In true r/LeopardsAteMyFace fashion, the lack of property insurance and increasingly unlivable conditions will make Florida uninhabitable, returning the whole state to nature.
Gov. DeSantis is secretly a late-stage environmentalist!
Climate Change: Florida isnt real.
Don't look Up!
Oh, just ignore climate change and Florida will go away
I’d be cool with that
“The legislation I signed today [will] keep windmills off our beaches, gas in our tanks, and China out of our state,” DeSantis [said].
What’s the point of such a bill? [...] In many cases, the bill is largely symbolic: the state doesn’t have any offshore wind thanks to low wind speed and its severe hurricanes.
and then they accuse others of virtue signaling. the projection runs strong in this one.
So he is banning the trillions of chinese products? What a clown.
That's the beauty of it. He doesn't have to. He just has to pretend that climate change denial means he's sticking it to the Chinese.
So patriotic! Without any of the mess! /s
I guess MAGA gear and products will be banned too right?
Since it's made in China
It's vice signaling.
It’s almost like some rich group of mobsters run America/ most the world.and feed people propaganda so we behave and make their products and profit so we can pay them right back in taxes so they can keep using war/civil conflict to exploit slave labor to make them more money.
Mother Nature disagrees and she is right
Uuuuuuh but this is the law!!!1111
Next thing he'll be banning is the sun from being too bright and rain making things wet.
Careful, nature! The guy who wears poorly-disguised high heels is coming for ya!
There's going to be an era of 'climate wars' aren't there. Let's just add war to the effects of climate change. Jfc humans, like WTF?!
The planet doesn't matter. What matters is the economy! And war is good for the economy!
So you're saying we need to remodel climate-change propaganda and rebrand as the "WAR AGAINST CLIMATE"
I say we form an international alliance to limit this enemies ability to build up its war machine. Now what's this sinister climates weak point? Our top climate experts keep saying something about greenhouses. Not sure how that works but let's get our coalition together and secure mutual protection assurances as well as Congress and all of our collective citizens. Together we can beat this foe!
And she is mad!
Florida is mad too, as a hatter.
Bingo. Nature doesn't care what you think.
In other news, the lead content in the Miami municipal water system has reached alarming levels.
we should forbid saying this by law
Florida-brain is real, and it's in the water.
The GOP knows, they're hoping for another generation of voters when the brain damage kicks in.
Hooray! They fixed it!
And just like that we solved Climate Change forever!
Who ever knew science cared about the law?? Genius!
Why else would there be laws within the Scientific Method? Clearly they mean the same thing!
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Can’t believe we didn’t think of this sooner!
Morons leading morons.
Can we now pass a "DeSantis isn't real" law?
‘Climate does not change because I am Governor and I say so’
Trump will want to nuke climate. Can’t change the climate if it doesn’t exist.
I will simply put climate on a plane and send it to Martha’s Vinyard.
Ah yes “the head in sand” act of 2024
Don't look up.
Well, judging by the rapidly heating climate, soon Florida won’t be real. Because it’ll be underwater.
"You say I don't exist?? Watch this."
- climate, to Florida
Climate change is real and when Miami gets submerged under water he's going to be so wrong for making that a law in Florida along with the Everglades. The sea levels there are going to rise
This is the worst state for denial.
Funny law. Miami beach is having to build infrastructure to fend off sea level rise due to climate change. Florida is also receiving federal funding to help with climate change. The RESTORE act for example. Florida does opt out of certain federal programs... basically those that require Florida to comply with emission standards.
But if the Feds are handing out money with no strings attached for climate change mitigation... well now, Florida is right there with hand out.
In some ways it will be a relief when Climate Crisis finally puts Florida out of its misery.... But it is weird that the place being destroyed first in America is run by folks who are willfully blind to it. I guess that will mean the destruction is more complete since they won't properly prepare or mitigate something they don't believe in.
These folks who run Florida have been elected. Don't forget that the vast majority of Floridians do believe climate change is a hoax.
It looks like more and more people believe in it there actually. Unsurprising given how hard they are getting hit. 58% of folks in Florida accurately believe human caused climate change is occuring.
A lot of voter manipulation goes on in the South and I suspect that number has risen rapidly as the situation has deteriorated.
https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/climate-resilience-survey
That's because climate realists have already started leaving the state. If you acknowledge the future that climate change will bring, and you've got a $2 million beachfront condo that you could sell to some MAGA chud for $2.5 million because they think climate change isn't real, it makes sense to sell and get out while you still can.
De Santis essentially told the world that he doesn't believe in science and doesn't support NASA, a very important U.S. government agency that recognizes climate change and even discusses it on their website.
Weird flex for a governor.
Especially since NASA brings so much money to Florida.
Well. No federal dollars for the next hurricane that rips through Florida necessary. We can just legislate that it didn't happen.
Death cult.
Ron DeOstrich sticking his head in the sand won’t work the way sea level is rising in Florida.
This is as stupid as the North Carolina law against masks. More so.
What a guy! Climate change has been solved by making it illegal. Genius.
Other recent innovations include anti LQBTQ; banning books; and outlawing lab grown meat.
We will stop those dangerous wokes!
Some of his rhetoric is like being in the 1970’s. It’s a crazy time to be alive.
That’s probably the saddest indictment on humanity that we’ve inflicted on ourselves. What morons.
This is insane. What is wrong with people voting for this crazy man?
Could someone explain to this clown that this is not how it works? The dreadful part is that this person somehow got elected...
He got elected because the overwhelming majority of the electorate in the state holds the same beliefs. For them climate change is a hoax by the libs...
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People like him are dangerous to humanity
Well, it’s only a matter of time that all home owner’s insurance companies leave the state because of continuing climate disasters in Florida. He’ll have a good time of it explaining to the population why those that put their money where their mouth is know climate change is real and think Florida is too risky.
Can’t wait for their new law declaring pi to be 22/7.
whatever you say sexy boots
So, if the climate continues to change, are the cops just going to shoot it?
Climate change will make "Florida isn't real" official reality...
Strange times we live in....
Same approach he took to Covid.
God Florida please loose this clown already
Gunning hard for the delusional lackwit demographic I see.
Then the feds should stop bailing Florida out every time they declare a climate change-related emergency.
Tell that to the home insurance companies, Ron.
So it’s clear that the evil back rooms put clowns in the front. But what is the endgame? Is it just to make oil billionaires richer?
Democrats: We need to build a green economy, solve the housing crisis, eliminate poverty wages, improve workers rights, improve access to healthcare and education, and work with international partners to meet the threat from Russia!
Republicans: Transwomen are men! Climate change isn't real! Pi is exactly 3!
Is there more proof needed that the GOP is just plain stupid?
Anti-intellectualism runs rampant in the regressive republicans party of christofascism.
How can people call themselves ‘team sanity’ when voting for this man even if its against Trump?
I'd agree with him, but then we'd both be wrong.
I live in Canada. A buddy of mine told me he wants to move to Florida. I told him "I guess you don't follow politics and you know nothing about the governor there".
Florida, yeah they got a lot of sand for people to stick their heads into. Next they should make hurricanes illegal. Not sure why they haven't done that yet
Get a load of this guy who doesn't believe in weather.
This reminds me of that coastal North Carolina town that commissioned an impact study of rising ocean levels, got results they didn't like, and then banned using impact studies for future planning at all.
Floridians drowning in seawater to own the libs.
Also, this should immediately be paired with a rejection of any and all hurricane relief funds to Florida. After all, climate change doesn't exist and hurricanes in no way are getting stronger overtime.
When Florida is underwater I’m sure his legacy will be remembered forever. The is actually right on point for one of the dumbest states in the union.
Now that it's a law, is the intention to prosecute hurricanes going forward?
So, maybe it's time to propose a new law suggesting DeDantis isn't real.
Mother Nature doesn’t care about your laws.
What a scumbag! Climate change is real and Florida will be affected heavily by it!
We need to vote this degenerate sob out of office he isn’t fit to lead a home let alone a state.
“Lalala I can’t hear you!” -DeSantis probably
The climate doesn’t care.
The insurance companies would like a word, Ron…
I’d say he must have his head buried in the sand, but it appears he’s asphyxiating on his own hot air and poor policies already.
And just that, abracadabra, alacazam… Ronnie waves his magic wand and says “Climate Change Isn’t Real”.
He should declare the same thing for Mother Nature and decree hurricanes are a hoax, too.
He might as well create yet another official FL law to enforce his rule… so when the next devastating hurricane hits, he can ignore its consequences, as a matter of law.
Good luck, Florida!
I hope he loses his fucking boat.
I hope he loses his fucking boat.
I hope he loses his fucking boat.
I hope he loses his boat in the next hurricane.
One of the worst places to ignore climate change.
What a disaster of a human being DeathSantis makes.
Holy fooking dumb dumb. The state that is most likely doomed as a result of climate change makes it a law that it's not real. That outta bring back the insurance companies. " There, I fixed it.
Idiocracy in Florida
What has science ever done? Checks Internet on hand held computer I phone. 📱
Florida isn't real at this point
These people are sick, the more science proves it as fact the more they double down
just like COVID if you don't count it, it doesn't exist, my house was destroyed by boob-quake obviously.
In the state most affected by climate change, just to own the libs.
I can hear those homeowners insurance rates going up already.
Wishing away reality never works. The facts do not care about your ideology.
Well that's straight out of the totalitarian playbook. Criminalize anything that threatens your agenda so people become so afraid to talk about it that it dies out and people forget. By the time they remember, the damage will be done and those responsible will be dead.
This insanity needs to end. Totalitarian extremism must be eradicated or the 21st century will be society's last, and we'll spend it cosplaying a 1970's nostalgia for the boomers so they can die happy and satisfied.
How embarrassing
I never thought they would actually figure out a way to legislate the response of plugging their ears, closing their eyes, while constantly saying, “I’m not listening to you!” The stupid really hurts, don’t it?
Ronald DeSantis is a moron.
There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
"Climate? La, la, la, I can't hear you!"
Coming soon: New beachfront properties near you! Welcome to Waterworld MFers.
This little goblin has too much power and needs to be stopped.
Also Rhonda, “Please give us $50,000,000 for hurricane relief!”
Climate change is so gay I cannot even say it!
Free state lolololololol
Signed into law as the tide lapped at his feet.
Mother nature abhors platform shoes.
Little know fact: if you don't believe in climate change, it can't hurt you.
Florida could flood completely, and you would still have people think climate change is a hoax.
This is ironic because Florida is going to be cooked by climate change. Desantis is the devil. Look at the mans eyes. It’s like looking into the abyss
Anything for the oil companies.
Can we just pay out all stock shares of every oil and oil adjacent company, ban them from being listed ever again, and go from there?
I know, I know, there are too many ways to continue to make money off of fossil fuels, but until there’s no incentive to back them they’ll continue to push us further and further towards the depths of hell.
Not sure how that works
Legal equivalent of burying head in sand.
Levels of crime doesn’t happen because it’s illegal
What I would give to have Biden and the Dem controlled Senate give him a big Nope, when he asks for federal funds, after the first hurricane hits Florida, in a month
It must be great to have a governor so powerful that he can change the weather.
Certainly his is good news to all those folks in Miami living an inch above the waterline. DeStantis has outlawed climate change. Sort of like when politicians decided Pi should be 3.14, without all the unnecessary digits.
Climate change versus Florida.
Who’s gonna win?
It's long past time that someone man's up and puts the uppity Woke weather in its place! If the climate changes, jail it!
/s because reasons.
Even negative attention is attention for these idiots. No doubt they think of something triggering to scientists and put it in front of a microphone. Pathetic they have a podium.
It's stuff like this that makes me wish climate change ge could only affect regions that deny it.
Then It wouldn't matter if people wanted to deny it.
Kinda like drinking bleach. It's not illegal to do yourself.
(And for those nitpickers suicide is only illegal if you fail. But the act of drinking bleach isn't explicitly illegal. )
FL erases Climate Change, Climate Change likely will return the favor.
Maybe he’s trying to live out a fantasy of being Trident, the King of the Merpeople?
I didn't realize that he was a climate scientist. It's so strange to me that science has now become politicized. Fortunately, science doesn't care. What a turd.
This belongs in r/floridaman
This is how republicans govern, by wishful thinking.
Good luck down there, guys, you're gunna need it.
...Yikes...
I'm looking forward to seaworld miami should be ready in a decade or so.
He’s not going to be around when Florida sinks
Derp!
This just in, birds aren’t real and the earth is flat. And vaccines give you autism.
Insurance companies beg to differ
Well on good thing about climate change, when the oceans rise, it will swallow up Florida first
I hope the Atlantic swallows that entire state.
Florida is like a terminally ill patient in denial.
What a chump. Florida will sink regardless of whatever Ronnie says.
Don’t look up! Never mind the state will be under water with higher tides and sea level rise
The state will be underwater before the end of the century.
It can't happen soon enough. A valuable lesson.
To the great relief of property insurance underwater.. .err umm... i mean underwriters in the state 🙄
Just tell me when the kangaroo SCOTUS forces insurance companies to insure houses that are literally under water. I don't figure we'll have to wait long.
Breaking news: politician allowed to make laws without expert consultation having any sway makes law in field he has no understanding of.
I mean no offense to any Floridians who may suffer hurricane damage etc. but is this for real? This is posturing made into law. lol
As Florida goes floating off into the sea
Why doesn't he just outlaw hurricanes while he's at it? That would solve so many problems.
Thereby ensuring he looks like a total idiot in the history books yet to come.
This guy is a whole bag of dicks.
Great, I’ll file a lawsuit against the sun in Florida, I guess.
Instead of trying to effectively run a state…
This is definitely going to bring all the insurance companies back! /s