Still don't believe in climate change, GOP...?

[Grins]

Today's Washington Post:

"More than 50 million ballots were cast by Floridians in the seven presidential elections from 1992 through 2016. If you add them all up, only 18,000 votes separate the Republicans from the Democrats. That is 0.04%.

Control of the White House in 2000 came down to a few hundred hanging chads - and one vote on the Supreme Court. The past four statewide elections were all decided by a single percentage point."

Here it comes....

"...Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans, maybe more, are expected to permanently move to Florida as the result of Hurricane Maria. Thanks to a law passed in 1917, Puerto Ricans are American citizens. And they tend to overwhelmingly vote Democrat."

“People can’t talk to their families right now, but the minute people can get through to their families, they’re going to start buying them airplane tickets to get out of there. It’s chain migration. … Florida is kind to the elderly. People have the same Social Security card, whether they’re here or in Puerto Rico.” - Edwin Meléndez, Hunter College.

We're about to see a shit-ton of Republicans suddenly see climate change as a problem.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/09/28/daily-202-trump-s-katrina-influx-of-puerto-ricans-after-hurricane-maria-could-tip-florida-toward-democrats/59cc037c30fb0468cea81c2f/

[exboyfil]

1. Can we get some to

Move to Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Hmm. I hadn't considered that. It will be something to watch.

[PJMcK]

3. An OpEd in today's NY Post

This is a link to a column by Eddie Borges in Rupert Murdoch's NY Post.

http://nypost.com/2017/09/27/puerto-rico-should-have-been-ready-for-maria/

Mr. Borges writes:

Then in 2013 came a more prosaic warning in the form of a report from the Puerto Rican Climate Change Council and the USGS. It stated: “It is no longer a question of whether the coasts of Puerto Rico and many port cities in the Caribbean will be inundated, but rather, it is a question of when and by how much.”

In other words, he's accepting the science of climate change while blaming the victims of the natural disasters in Puerto Rico. It's interesting that conservatives can deny climate change in one breath and then use it as a cudgel to criticize the Americans who inhabit Puerto Rico.