How climate change skepticism in Spanish government impacted flood response
by editors@theworld.org (Gerry Hadden) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6S7RZ)
After the rains in Valencia, Spain, came the political storm. It turns out that Valencia's center-right president, Carlos Mazon, is a climate change skeptic who could have acted more quickly to warn citizens and, later, to start clean-up efforts. But until this month, he openly ridiculed the science behind climate change. The World's Gerry Hadden brings us the story of how a lack of buy-in set the stage for evacuation and recovery chaos.