Florida is all in on climate. The Biden Administration is providing vital funding for solar arrays in the state.

October 19, 2022
By Gisele Galoustian

Ian's storm surge was accompanied by sea level rise (click here).

...For instance, (click here) the 62 percent of Floridians (51 percent of Republicans) who today favor increasing the state’s solar energy production appear to have experienced a large increase over past surveys. Driving this spike is a noteworthy convergence of public opinion across income groups: in past FAU surveys, parsing responses to the solar energy question by income revealed a split of 10 to 20 percentage points, whereas now that range is only approximately five points.

Other important survey questions display more stability over time, but as with the solar energy question, are indicative of surprisingly widespread support. For instance, 71 percent of Floridians (57 percent of Republicans) now endorse teaching the science of climate change in K-12 classrooms, and 42 percent (40 percent of Republicans) are willing to pay an extra monthly $10 infrastructure tax to reduce climate change impacts. These Florida levels belie the strong partisan split observed elsewhere....

..."Our Mobile Command Center (click here) is ready to respond and assist with search and rescue along with our other assets. We are here for our community," Lee County Sheriff's Office wrote on Facebook just before 7 a.m....

October 8, 2022

The death toll from Ian (click here) reached 100 on Friday, making it the third most deadly hurricane to hit the mainland in a decade....