{"id":1302,"date":"2005-06-19T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-19T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/06\/19\/florida-lags-on-addressing-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2005-06-19T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-19T13:59:00","slug":"florida-lags-on-addressing-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/florida-lags-on-addressing-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Lags on Addressing Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/NewsJournalOnline\/Opinion\/Editorials\/03OpOPN73061805.htm\">op-ed<\/a> by environmental activist and retired chemist Lee Bidgood in the Daytona Beach News-Journal is particularly interesting.  Bidgood laments his state&#8217;s foot-dragging on climate change issues as other states like California and Washington (as well as Northeastern states) take bold steps forward to limit carbon emissions and promote renewable energy.  One would think that after last September&#8217;s hurrican bonanza, Florida would be motivated to  take action against global warming &#8212; it&#8217;s certainly one of the, if not the most, vulnerable places to the effects of extreme weather developments.  Oh, but wait a minute &#8212; the guy in the state house is named Bush&#8230;  Never mind &#8212; what about that Schiavo women&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalsustainability.info\">Eco-Portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/global+warming\" rel=\"tag\">global warming<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/renewable+energy\" rel=\"tag\">renewable energy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Florida\" rel=\"tag\">Florida<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cut Your Own Carbon Emissions with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-1674704-5717495\">Tankless Water Heater<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.awltovhc.com\/image-1674704-5717495\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This op-ed by environmental activist and retired chemist Lee Bidgood in the Daytona Beach News-Journal is particularly interesting. Bidgood laments his state&#8217;s foot-dragging on climate change issues as other states&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Florida Lags on Addressing Climate Change &#8226; Sustainablog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/florida-lags-on-addressing-climate-change\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Florida Lags on Addressing Climate Change &#8226; Sustainablog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This op-ed by environmental activist and retired chemist Lee Bidgood in the Daytona Beach News-Journal is particularly interesting. 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