I had to read this three times to make sure I didn't misread it. Florida, who per square centimeter crushes almost every other state in this union in clear sun, lags behind many of them on solar panels installments. Florida lags behind other states on generating solar energy By Ivan Penn, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, June 13, 2012 7:55pm Ask state lawmakers why Florida doesn't focus more on solar energy and they'll complain about too many clouds. So with little political will to aggressively tap the sun, Florida now lags behind other not-as-sunny places such as Massachusetts, Ohio, New York and New Jersey in developing more solar capacity. New Jersey installed the most new solar in the first quarter of 2012, according to a report released Wednesday by the Solar Energy Industries Association. Florida ranked 14th. The difference was huge. New Jersey added almost 174 megawatts from January to March. At that rate, the state would add the equivalent of a mid-sized nuclear reactor to its electrical capacity by the end of the year. Florida added just 2.8 megawatts... http://www.tampabay.com/news/busine...her-states-on-generating-solar-energy/1235187
Maybe this is why? Or is it just the general conservative stupidity that seem to flourish in the south. After all, didn't this nutjob disallow any mention of climate in state planning? Or was that the dumb NC conservatives? I think it was both.
florida has much cheaper electricity than california. that makes it much harder to pitch the upfront costs vs savings over time. solar pays for itself over time in many parts of california because our rates were so high due to govt stupidity, corruption and bad deals.
The world is facing the biggest extinction since the dinosaurs, with seven in 10 mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles wiped out in just 50 years, a new report warns. The latest Living Planet Report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) estimates that by 2020 populations of vertebrates will have fallen by 67 per cent since 1970. Extinction rates are now running at one hundred times their natural level because of deforestation, hunting, pollution, overfishing and climate change... http://news.nationalpost.com/news/w...largest-extinction-since-the-dinosaurs-report
I am a real environmentalist. One who used to volunteer time and services to clean water groups and I agree those are very serious concerns. The issue here is that we have wasted billions and billions of dollars and energy and good will on that should have been channeled to these real environmental issues when there is not science showing man made co2 causes warming.
Well even the well meaning can do harm if ideologically deranged, delusional, insane, ignorant, lying through their teeth, or just plain wrong.
which would be an interesting argument... if you had any peer reviewed science showing man made co2 causes warming... but you don't most likely because co2 levels trail changes in ocean temps.
And it does not bother you that not a single publishing climate scientist on earth agrees with you. Not one. You do realize that right? Talk about hubris! Or something.