Talk about different messages about climate change by officials in two inundated state capital cities.
* From Wisconsin GOP Governor and active climate change denier Scott Walker, not a peep about any relationship between climate change and flooding in Madison which water science experts there showed in real time what climate change had unleashed in that flooded capital city.
* Now compare Walker's 'approach' to "what climate change looks like" to what this South Carolina public official had to say as his state's capitol city was about to flood:
* From Wisconsin GOP Governor and active climate change denier Scott Walker, not a peep about any relationship between climate change and flooding in Madison which water science experts there showed in real time what climate change had unleashed in that flooded capital city.
Record Rain in Madison is What Climate Change Looks Like – Especially in Midwest
It’s been more than 24 hours since a severe weather system stalled out over Dane County and dumped anywhere from 3.92 (Dane County Airport), to 11.63 (National Weather Service in Middleton) to an unconfirmed 15.33 inches of rain in Cross Plains...
Today, that water is still working its way downstream and our lake levels are rising. Lake Mendota isn’t just knocking at our back door, it’s let itself in.I'd earlier noted that the water science building was just across the lake from Walker's official residence, but given the distance he'd put between himself, state policy and the science going on over there it might as well be on Mars.
* Now compare Walker's 'approach' to "what climate change looks like" to what this South Carolina public official had to say as his state's capitol city was about to flood:
Climate change is real, says South Carolina mayor rushing back to hurricane
SAN FRANCISCO — Steve Benjamin, a mayor from South Carolina, flew into this city to talk about climate change — and was rushing back out to deal with a hurricane.
“We in the Carolinas are forced to deal with the realities of climate change every single day,” Benjamin told USA TODAY from the tarmac at San Francisco International Airport as the Democratic lawmaker waited for his plane to return him to Columbia, S.C., the state capital of 134,000 where people are bracing for Hurricane Florence, which has already forced the evacuations of more than 1 million.