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‘Make or break moment.’ Tampa Bay leaders hold climate change summit.
Tampa Bay ^ | 1/08/20 | Zachary T. Sampson, Langston Taylor

Posted on 01/18/2020 7:31:45 AM PST by Libloather

ST. PETERSBURG — As she arrived to speak at the region’s first ever resilience leadership summit, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor came upon a hotel parking lot packed with cars.

Hundreds of people from local governments, universities and scientific consulting firms had shown up Tuesday. Valets at the Hilton in Carillon Park double-parked vehicles, choking the entry.

The scene summarized the day: a symbol both of the growing interest in climate change in Tampa Bay and the enormous hurdles officials face as they aim to curb emissions (from cars, for instance) contributing to rising seas.

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Among the first speakers was Julia Nesheiwat, Florida’s new chief resilience officer, who made news when she explicitly acknowledged climate change at another workshop in Tampa last year. In Florida, where “I’m not a scientist” was a common refrain of top Republicans over the past decade, her blunt assessment signaled a major policy shift.

“It’s music to my ears to hear, now more than ever, that we are really beyond that point of ‘If there is a problem’ to, ‘What are we really doing about it?’ ” Nesheiwat said Tuesday.

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“We’re coming to the resiliency conference, and there’s a thousand cars out front,” Castor quipped. “Not a good sign.”

Hilarious. Hey Tampa, time to shut down the tourist industry and confiscate that loot from somewhere else. Maybe it's also time to stop paying a chief resilience officer. Could save a few bucks right there.

1 posted on 01/18/2020 7:31:45 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Climate change is dying. These people are talking it to death.


2 posted on 01/18/2020 7:36:10 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: Libloather
Tampa Bay leaders wannabe oligarchs and overlords hold climate change summit.
3 posted on 01/18/2020 7:36:43 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Libloather

Leftist Regressives: Boring, tired, ignorant oxygen thieves who get meaningless, do-nothing, taxpayer-funded jobs such as “Chief Resilience Officer.”


4 posted on 01/18/2020 7:38:07 AM PST by twister881 (Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself)
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To: Libloather

>>> What are we really doing about it?’ ” Nesheiwat said <<<

Raise taxes and redistribute wealth?


5 posted on 01/18/2020 7:40:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Libloather

Do the knotheads who attend these idiotic “climate change” conferences buy carbon offsets for all the CO2 they generate from their incessant talking?


6 posted on 01/18/2020 7:41:30 AM PST by twister881 (Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself)
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To: Libloather

Just another chicken little program to separate money from taxpayers to fund the liberal elite.


7 posted on 01/18/2020 7:47:16 AM PST by freedom1st (Build the Wall)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think they want you to buy horses, give up cars, and ride stage coaches to nearby towns.


8 posted on 01/18/2020 7:48:53 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Libloather

I’m sure Tampa has much more pressing issues than how to milk the locals and the tourons for changes in the seasons.

who da f funds this nonsense...


9 posted on 01/18/2020 7:59:02 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible")
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To: Libloather
There seem to be more "Make or Break Moments" with "Climate Change" than "Going out of Business Sales" with furniture stores.
10 posted on 01/18/2020 8:00:31 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: Libloather

Maybe a field trip to the beach to see the “rising seas” should be first on the agenda?!


11 posted on 01/18/2020 8:03:31 AM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: twister881

That title alone should be sufficient proof that we are living in the end times...


12 posted on 01/18/2020 8:06:21 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Reno89519

All attendees at this enclave-of-the-ignorant should have marched into the sea. That would definitely helped the planet.


13 posted on 01/18/2020 8:07:04 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: All

Well Zachary and Langston I have news for you. Global Warming is a crock of Shite.


14 posted on 01/18/2020 8:08:14 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Libloather

Maybe the “climate scientist” are causing most of the global warming flying all over the place to have yet another “summit”
Do they rent limos to get around?


15 posted on 01/18/2020 8:08:31 AM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: Libloather
We have been forced to tolerate this absolute nonsense for decades now. Even when the data is cherry picked and “adjusted” there is still no convincing evidence that we are living through temperatures and weather patterns outside of natural variation. It was warmer 90 years ago during the 1930s for goodness sakes. The only warming phenomena that has factual support is the “urban heat island effect” where recording stations that were once surrounded by naturally occurring plant life are now in the middle of a blacktop parking lot or next to a hear exchanger for a high-rise building.
16 posted on 01/18/2020 8:09:52 AM PST by fireman15
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To: Libloather

Tampa Bay hasn’t changed in the 40 years I’ve been coming to it and since I moved here in 2003, the only things the changed were 1)The skyline of Tampa and St. Pete. 2)Housing developments and 3)Idiots in the mayor office (Jane Castor, you aren’t no Bob Buckhorn). The bay never changed, nor the the rest of the coastline of Florida.


17 posted on 01/18/2020 8:11:07 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Libloather

So hold your Emotional Meltdown Event online, morons.


18 posted on 01/18/2020 8:11:24 AM PST by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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To: Libloather

How long before we have some kind of Jonestown-type climate change mass suicide to save the planet event


19 posted on 01/18/2020 8:14:54 AM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans
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re. ... Florida’s new chief resilience officer

A chief resilience officer? Are there assistant resilience officers? deputy resilience officers?

Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here. /s

20 posted on 01/18/2020 8:29:13 AM PST by ken in texas
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