Kent Wimmer
@klwimmer.bsky.social
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You can’t ride out climate change in your air-conditioned cave floridaphoenix.com/2025/07/21/y...
You can't ride out climate change in your air-conditioned cave • Florida Phoenix
If you wake up every morning worrying you’ve landed in hell, you pretty much have. It’s hotter than Satan’s house cat. Venture outside and it feels like you’re walking through a sauna wearing a sui...
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September 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
You can’t ride out climate change in your air-conditioned cave floridaphoenix.com/2025/07/21/y...
BP is back 15 years after Deepwater Horizon disaster with plans to drill even deeper floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/28/b...
BP is back 15 years after Deepwater Horizon disaster with plans to drill even deeper • Florida Phoenix
How many chances should you give a bad actor? A screw-up? A company that fouled the ocean and the coast and killed lots of wildlife? I ask this because BP, the British oil giant responsible for the wo...
floridaphoenix.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
BP is back 15 years after Deepwater Horizon disaster with plans to drill even deeper floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/28/b...
Energy Dept's own numbers say today's rollback would raise fuel costs by 76c/gal share.google/ibg2IJSnL8Gm...
Energy Dept's own numbers say today's rollback would raise fuel costs by 76c/gal
EPA head Lee Zeldin said today's rollback will save you money, but even Trump's Energy Department knows that's a lie.
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July 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Energy Dept's own numbers say today's rollback would raise fuel costs by 76c/gal share.google/ibg2IJSnL8Gm...
@dkroberts.bsky.social writes, "...Remember that the next time you hear DeSantis’ bleating how he wants to “save” the Everglades. DeSantis, Bondi, and Uthmeier may call themselves lawyers, but they are lawless." floridaphoenix.com/2025/06/30/f...
Florida's leaders are swapping class for crass • Florida Phoenix
Younger readers may be unaware there was a time when politicians followed the rules, almost as if they cared about good government. Certainly there were liars, fraudsters, and zealots, your Sen. Joe M...
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June 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
@dkroberts.bsky.social writes, "...Remember that the next time you hear DeSantis’ bleating how he wants to “save” the Everglades. DeSantis, Bondi, and Uthmeier may call themselves lawyers, but they are lawless." floridaphoenix.com/2025/06/30/f...
We went solar to save over $100/month, be self reliant and lower our carbon footprint. We haven't paid for electricity in four years since going solar. Congress should protect solar rights. #SaveSolarAccess.
June 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We went solar to save over $100/month, be self reliant and lower our carbon footprint. We haven't paid for electricity in four years since going solar. Congress should protect solar rights. #SaveSolarAccess.
"The goal for the rest of us, as we resist Trump and resist climate change, is pretty clear: do everything we can to speed up this transition to clean energy, here and everywhere. Solar works, solar is cheap, and solar is liberating.”
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Big Oil Has A Plan - Waste As Much Energy As Possible - CleanTechnica
Is energy finite or infinite? The answer to that question could determine whether the Earth can continue to support human life.
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June 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"The goal for the rest of us, as we resist Trump and resist climate change, is pretty clear: do everything we can to speed up this transition to clean energy, here and everywhere. Solar works, solar is cheap, and solar is liberating.”
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cleantechnica.com/2025/06/18/b...
@craigtimes.bsky.social writes, "...If Albritton and Perez fail to restore the parks money the way they should, I would encourage all of you to send the governor a strongly worded message encouraging him to employ his veto pen on that part of the budget." floridaphoenix.com/2025/06/12/f...
Florida lawmakers save state parks from golf, then yank away funding for preserving land • Florida Phoenix
Hey kids, here’s a civics lesson for you. The Florida Senate and House of Representatives — or as they’re sometimes called, “Dumb and Dumber” — make a lot of headlines by passing dopey laws, but that’...
floridaphoenix.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
@craigtimes.bsky.social writes, "...If Albritton and Perez fail to restore the parks money the way they should, I would encourage all of you to send the governor a strongly worded message encouraging him to employ his veto pen on that part of the budget." floridaphoenix.com/2025/06/12/f...
Industry group says Trump tax bill could kill nearly 22,000 solar jobs in Florida. The bill includes a measure to eliminate the 30% residential federal solar tax credit by the end of the year. floridaphoenix.com/briefs/indus...
Industry group says Trump tax bill could kill nearly 22,000 solar jobs in Florida • Florida Phoenix
Florida installed the second most solar power capacity in the country last year, and is predicted to become the top-ranked residential solar power state in the nation in 2028, but that growth could be...
floridaphoenix.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Industry group says Trump tax bill could kill nearly 22,000 solar jobs in Florida. The bill includes a measure to eliminate the 30% residential federal solar tax credit by the end of the year. floridaphoenix.com/briefs/indus...
Legislature wants to make it impossible for local governments to build back better after hurricanes floridaphoenix.com/2025/05/29/l...
Legislature wants to make it impossible for local governments to build back better after hurricanes • Florida Phoenix
Hello, is this the 911 operator? I need to report someone who’s a danger to themselves and others. It’s the Florida Legislature. No, operator, this is not a joke! Didn’t you hear what they did? After ...
floridaphoenix.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Legislature wants to make it impossible for local governments to build back better after hurricanes floridaphoenix.com/2025/05/29/l...
Voters, this is how little the Florida Legislature thinks of you floridaphoenix.com/2025/05/19/v...
Voters, this is how little the Florida Legislature thinks of you • Florida Phoenix
You’ve heard of the U.S. Constitution, right? You can see one of the 1789 originals right there in the National Archives. At least until the current regime shuts the place down for harboring wokey doc...
floridaphoenix.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Voters, this is how little the Florida Legislature thinks of you floridaphoenix.com/2025/05/19/v...
“They don’t want you inoculated against measles, but they’re doing their damnedest to inoculate Americans against knowledge...But MAGAs don’t do high-level thinking: It makes their heads hurt. They simply react." floridaphoenix.com/2025/05/12/m...
MAGA doesn't want you to think • Florida Phoenix
Why are right-wingers so scared of ideas? Are their minds so weak that mere exposure to certain books will infect them with what Elon Musk calls “the woke mind virus”? They don’t want you inoculated a...
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May 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“They don’t want you inoculated against measles, but they’re doing their damnedest to inoculate Americans against knowledge...But MAGAs don’t do high-level thinking: It makes their heads hurt. They simply react." floridaphoenix.com/2025/05/12/m...
Florida is full of expensive restoration projects. Conservation would be cheaper. floridaphoenix.com/2025/05/08/f...
Florida is full of expensive restoration projects. Conservation would be cheaper. • Florida Phoenix
Before last week, I’d never heard of the frosted flatwoods salamander. Now that I have, I think it’s kind of cool. It’s a wiggly little amphibian with black-and-white stripes, sort of like if you cros...
floridaphoenix.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Florida is full of expensive restoration projects. Conservation would be cheaper. floridaphoenix.com/2025/05/08/f...
With Florida ranking second nationally in solar installations, advocates said the stakes are high as they urged residents to contact lawmakers ahead of the vote this week.
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FL solar advocates urge Congress to keep tax credits
As Congress prepares to vote this week on a budget bill which would repeal solar energy tax credits, Florida solar advocates warned the move would jeopardize the state's economy. According to industr...
www.publicnewsservice.org
May 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
With Florida ranking second nationally in solar installations, advocates said the stakes are high as they urged residents to contact lawmakers ahead of the vote this week.
www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-05-05/e...
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This article states that fossil fuels, and the fossil fuel industry, are central drivers of multiple interconnected global crises including climate change, public health issues, environmental injustice, biodiversity loss, and pollution.
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Scientists’ warning on fossil fuels
Abstract. The evidence is clear that fossil fuels—and the fossil fuel industry and its enablers—are driving a multitude of interlinked crises that jeopardi
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May 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This article states that fossil fuels, and the fossil fuel industry, are central drivers of multiple interconnected global crises including climate change, public health issues, environmental injustice, biodiversity loss, and pollution.
academic.oup.com/oocc/article...
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Florida legislators want to protect phosphate giant from suits over radioactive land floridaphoenix.com/2025/05/01/f...
Florida legislators want to protect phosphate giant from suits over radioactive land • Florida Phoenix
When I was a kid growing up in Pensacola, I’d come home from school and immediately turn on “The Big Show” on WKRG-TV. The avuncular host, Max Goodman, showed a lot of ’50s monster movies, and that’s ...
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May 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Florida legislators want to protect phosphate giant from suits over radioactive land floridaphoenix.com/2025/05/01/f...
"...From the state Capitol to the U.S. Capitol, politicians shrug: Guns matter more than people; children, high school students, college students — they don’t give the big money to political campaigns. The Second Amendment trumps all the others. prayers..." floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/28/n...
Nobody wants your feeble prayers • Florida Phoenix
Thoughts and prayers. On Thursday, April 17, a 20-year-old boy, a student, walked around FSU’s sunny campus, firing a handgun. Two dead; six injured. The response from our elected leaders? The usual: ...
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May 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"...From the state Capitol to the U.S. Capitol, politicians shrug: Guns matter more than people; children, high school students, college students — they don’t give the big money to political campaigns. The Second Amendment trumps all the others. prayers..." floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/28/n...
A Mistaken Idea of Freedom
The assault on America’s national monuments is part of a deeper war to erase FDR’s vision and return to an age when nothing was protected from the rich and powerful.
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The assault on America’s national monuments is part of a deeper war to erase FDR’s vision and return to an age when nothing was protected from the rich and powerful.
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/a-mistaken...
April 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A Mistaken Idea of Freedom
The assault on America’s national monuments is part of a deeper war to erase FDR’s vision and return to an age when nothing was protected from the rich and powerful.
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/a-mistaken...
The assault on America’s national monuments is part of a deeper war to erase FDR’s vision and return to an age when nothing was protected from the rich and powerful.
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/a-mistaken...
The Trump administration is coming for your lungs!
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America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era
A third of Americans still breathe unhealthy air after decades of improvements—which the Trump administration wants to roll back.
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April 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The Trump administration is coming for your lungs!
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Peanut farmer wants Florida water agency to swap forest land floridaphoenix.com/2025/03/27/p...
Peanut farmer wants Florida water agency to swap forest land • Florida Phoenix
Let me first make it clear that I am a big fan of peanuts — the tasty legume favored by George Washington Carver, that is, and not the Charlie Brown cartoon. At baseball games, I have eaten dry roaste...
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March 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Peanut farmer wants Florida water agency to swap forest land floridaphoenix.com/2025/03/27/p...
Defenders of Wildlife is leading this effort to protect the Ellaville tract and the gopher tortoises that inhabit the Twin Rivers State Forest along the Suwannee River. url:https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2025/03/19/twin-rivers-state-forest-land-swap-ellaville-tract-peanut-farm/
March 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Defenders of Wildlife is leading this effort to protect the Ellaville tract and the gopher tortoises that inhabit the Twin Rivers State Forest along the Suwannee River. url:https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2025/03/19/twin-rivers-state-forest-land-swap-ellaville-tract-peanut-farm/
Mr. Musk, please stop trying to kill Florida’s national parks and refuges floridaphoenix.com/2025/03/06/m...
Mr. Musk, please stop trying to kill Florida’s national parks and refuges • Florida Phoenix
Dear Elon Musk, Hi! We’ve never met, but I feel like we have some things in common. A college dean once dubbed me “the most destructive force on campus,” and you’re clearly the most destructive force ...
floridaphoenix.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Mr. Musk, please stop trying to kill Florida’s national parks and refuges floridaphoenix.com/2025/03/06/m...
Trump will almost certainly bequeath a warmer Earth to the next administration. What makes Trump different is his insistence on disrupting the basic apparatus of climate science...Heating up the world for future generations is a crime, but this is a cover-up. tinyurl.com/yc5kw4c8
The Golden Age of Antarctic Science May Be Ending
The Trump administration is sabotaging the country’s gold-standard climate science in Antarctica and around the world.
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February 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Trump will almost certainly bequeath a warmer Earth to the next administration. What makes Trump different is his insistence on disrupting the basic apparatus of climate science...Heating up the world for future generations is a crime, but this is a cover-up. tinyurl.com/yc5kw4c8
New Defense secretary doesn’t recognize the danger climate poses for Florida’s military bases floridaphoenix.com/2025/02/27/n...
New Defense secretary doesn’t recognize the danger climate poses for Florida’s military bases • Florida Phoenix
When I was a kid growing up in Pensacola, I played “Army Man” a lot. I’d climb up in the persimmon tree in my backyard and pretend it was my fort. I’d shout “PEW! PEW!” and pretend to repel every kind...
floridaphoenix.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
New Defense secretary doesn’t recognize the danger climate poses for Florida’s military bases floridaphoenix.com/2025/02/27/n...