Florida meteorologist goes after DeSantis over climate change rollback – By Miranda Nazzaro (The Hill) / May 20, 2024
A television meteorologist in Florida slammed Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for signing a bill that will remove the requirement for the state to consider climate change when creating energy policy and roll back nearly all references to climate change in state law.
“Don’t say Climate Change! As Florida is on fire, underwater and unaffordable, our state government is rolling back climate change legislation and language,” Steve MacLaughlin, a meteorologist for NBC 6 News in Miami, wrote Saturday on the social platform X.
The post was attached to a nearly minutelong video of MacLaughlin discussing the new Florida law, which DeSantis signed last week and will take effect in July.
“On Thursday, we reported on NBC 6 News that the government of Florida was beginning to roll back really important climate change legislation and really important climate change language in spite of the fact that the state of Florida, over the last couple of years, has seen record heat, record flooding, record raining, record insurance rates and the corals are dying all around the state,” MacLaughlin said in the video.
