this fits hand-in-glove with our Everglades restoration efforts, moving that water south and increasingly getting it cleansed
Bill Nelson
The Public Record
Bill Nelson is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Florida's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. Nelson also held the position of Florida's Insurance Commissioner from 1995 to 1999, where he focused on consumer protection and insurance reform.
So given the modeling scenarios that you have seen, do you think those losses that are primarily being borne by the individuals, since they were not insured losses, will rise in the future, given what we are seeing?
If we throw away that data on the state of the ocean because we worry about it revealing some climate change, we are throwing away our opportunity to improve our forecasts for the intensity of hurricanes, our ability to predict storm surge.
I call upon you to continue to provide the critical leadership needed on the global climate stage.
I have even had to file a Scientific Integrity Act to define common scientific values free from political interference.
I cannot imagine planning for the future conditions of the community and making informed policy planning investment decisions without recognizing the reality of what the driving factors are.
A few years ago, I visited the NOAA observatory on top of Mauna Loa, and it was a bittersweet moment.
We have to put a red line in the sand in stopping any attempt to remove the collection of data.
moving those wells further west ultimately ends up with the customer paying more because of the added expense.
For Florida, I am not a pessimist, but I am a realist, in the sense that we should mitigate what we can.





