This article discusses what will it take on climate change? Hurricanes, algae blooms, rising seas and melting ice. How much more before climate denial fades away?
As the Florida Panhandle begins to recover from Hurricane Michael, the state’s attention will turn to a big Senate race next month. Hurricane Michael may cast the deciding vote.
Term-limited Republican Gov. Rick Scott hopes to unseat veteran Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, and if he does, Democrats can kiss their hopes to take over the Senate goodbye.
Scott just completed a tour de force as the in-charge governor leading the emergency response to Michael. Like him or not, he’s good at this. By contrast, Nelson is stiff and uneasy on TV. Fair or not, elections are decided by such things.
Scott is also a first-rate climate denier. In 2015, whistleblowers and former staffers for the state environment agency accused Scott of banning discussion of climate change in any state meetings or documents. Scott denied the charges.