Never heard of them, but the picture, the band's name, and the font they used on the tee-shirt all led me to expect a song that rocked and didn't suck. I am disappointed.

Calm down everybody!
Rupert Murdoch assures us that climate change is no big deal:

Philip Stoddard, the mayor of South Miami, has a particularly succinct view of the man and his stance. "Rubio is an idiot," says Stoddard.

This guy got elected to any position of power in Florida?

Philip Stoddard is particularly well-placed to judge what is happening to Miami. Tall, thin, with a dry sense of humour, he is a politician, having won two successive elections to be mayor of South Miami, and a scientist, a biology professor at Florida International University.

Scientist and professor? Are they positive he was elected to political office in Florida?

Florida is fucking huge. Like 450 miles huge. It's pretty much made up of a few geographically distinct subcultures, with varying political views. If you want to get really simple, you've got South urban-Hispanic Florida, Central swamp-people Florida, and North pretty-much-Alabama Florida. That's a guarantee of 2/3 batshit crazy, but I'm not surprised that there are pockets of sanity here and there.

I assure you, there are no pockets of sanity anywhere here in Florida.

Which likely means, among other things, that the right wingers there will manage to do all of these things at once:

1. Maintain that climate change is a myth.
2. Demand the Federal government be made smaller, if not abolished.
3. Demand that the nation's taxpayers bail them out as all of their property becomes habitat for shrimp.

Yep. Same folks who refuse federally subsidized Medicaid expansion while demanding their federally subsidized homeowner's flood insurance.

4. Blame Obama

Profit!

Sunrise seemed pretty sane when I lived there a few years ago -- or at least no less sane them any other American suburb.

Sunrise had high tech (Moto then BlackBerry; General Dynamics, others) so probably a moderating factor of literate, intelligent immigrants. Like Austin vs all of Texas.

And "South Miami" may presumably include South Beach, which is full of affluent folks and retirees (and snow birds), so again, probably a different mentality to folks born and raised in FL.

If south Florida sinks, central Florida will become south Florida.

"Today in currently South Florida..."

"If South Florida sinks, where will all the crazy news come from?"

Texas!

I bet it would be somewhere totally unexpected, like Butan or Mare Tranquillitatis.

Germany.

Now there's a scary prospect.

Oh crap, they've won the fucking World Cup.

Next stop, Poland.

This is just a viral marketing campaign

Right, this is sort of what folks like Rick Scott and Marco Rubio are saying.

North Florida.


Most of the really crazy stuff comes from central/northern florida anyway.

I guess Dubai doesn't believe in sea level change either:

It believes in people with too much money and not much in the way of a realistic worldview.

They'll just build a wall and create Venice, Dubai-style.

How the hell does a nation that prohibits alcohol have such a vibrant tourism industry?

Bars must be attached to a hotel, but they do exist.

Yep, the bars are attached to hotels. You're also forgetting that anywhere in the world, enough money overrides just about any local laws or customs.