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Rhiannon12866

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Sat Jun 8, 2024, 01:10 AM Jun 2024

Ron DeSantis signs bill that deletes climate change from Florida state law. Anthony Davis reports. - FIVE MINUTE NEWS [View all]



Misinformation spread by climate deniers such as Florida’s extremist Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, increases the “vulnerability” of communities in the path of severe weather events, scientists are warning.

Earlier this month, DeSantis signed a law erasing the words “climate change” from Florida statutes and in effect pledging the state’s future to burning fossil fuels, a significant contributory factor in global warming and an unprecedented “supersizing” of hurricanes’ destructive power. - 06/07/2024.

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