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Gag order climate change can’t stop water from rising to our doorstep
Posted by Press Herald: Leonard Pitts on March 17th, 2016
Press Herald: Dear Florida Gov. Rick Scott: So it turns out the experts were mistaken. It turns out the impact of climate change on Florida – and much of the coastal United States – is not going to be anywhere near as bad as had been predicted. Apparently, it’s going to be much worse. That’s the sobering finding of a study published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change. Previous scenarios, grim as they were, failed to take into account projected population growth. Factor that in, say the researchers,...