Over the weekend, Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis corrected leftist climate alarmists for using Hurricane Idalia to push their climate policy by falsely claiming that climate change was causing hurricanes.
It should be noted that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has stated that climate change has not been associated with an increase in the long-term frequency or severity of tropical cyclones, which is consistent with earlier research.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “the historical tropical storm count record does not provide compelling evidence for a greenhouse warming induced long-term increase … The evidence for an upward trend is even weaker if we look at U.S. landfalling hurricanes, which even show a slight negative trend beginning from 1900 or from the late 1800s.”
DeSantis made his comments during a press conference on Sunday while discussing the current situation as his state recovers from the hurricane.
He pointed to past storms from over 100 years ago that had the same path as Hurricane Idalia and hit Florida with similar wind speeds of approximately 125 mph.
“So, I think the notion that somehow hurricanes are something new, that’s just false,” DeSantis said. “And we’ve got to stop politicizing the weather and stop politicizing natural disasters. We know from history there’s been times when it’s very busy in Florida, late ‘40s, early ‘50s, you had a lot of hits of significant hurricanes.”
“So, I think sometimes people need to take a breath and get a little bit of perspective here,” he continued. “But the notion that somehow if we just adopt, you know, very left-wing policies at the federal level that somehow we will not have hurricanes, that is a lie. And that is people trying to take what happened with different types of storms and use that as a pretext to advance their agenda on the backs of people that are suffering. And that’s wrong, and we’re not going to do that in the state of Florida.”
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