Dept of Agriculture censors use of "climate change"

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11. Yep. It looks like there might be a split between local Repubs having to deal with the reality of

the impact of climate change and the national leaders of their party.

http://touch.sun-sentinel.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-92624963/

South Florida is taking more steps to protect against climate change and the rising seas that already are spilling over into neighborhoods.

This month, Broward County ordered that new flood maps be drawn using predictions of higher waters, the latest in a series of steps taken from Palm Beach County to the Keys.

Fort Lauderdale raised the required height of sea walls and the elevation of home sites; Delray Beach added valves to keep salt water out of the city drainage system; Broward County put a financing program in place for homeowners who want to tap solar energy.

That doesn’t mean Florida is all ready and set for the ill effects of rising global temperatures. A nationally recognized advocacy group that rated states on preparedness gave Florida a C- .

https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-04-14/south-florida-republicans-are-fed-their-party-leaders-climate-change
South Florida Republicans are fed up with their party leaders on climate change

Florida’s Republican Gov. Rick Scott’s office allegedly told state employees they couldn’t even use the terms “climate change” or “global warming.” Scott has denied this, but his office also denied a request to speak with him, or anybody else in his administration, about climate change.

At the federal level, Florida senator and former presidential candidate Marco Rubio is in line with many leading Republicans in dismissing or minimizing the threat of climate change. So are the party’s two leading remaining candidates for president, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

Trump has said global warming is a hoax created by the Chinese to make the US less competitive. Cruz calls it “pseudo-scientific theory.”

Add it all up, it’s creating a bit of an identity crisis for Mayor Cason.

“It’s making it harder to be a Republican when you have nobody in the party that wants to recognize it,” said Cason. “That’s why we’re hoping that we can get the candidates to take a closer look at the scientific evidence and tell us: if you don’t believe it, well why? Or you think it’s irrelevant because you don’t live along the coasts. We live along the coast.”