DeSantis Slams Democrats For ‘Lie’ That Adopting Radical Policies Will Stop Hurricanes
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is calling out climate activists for trying to push their agenda in the wake of Hurricane Idalia — slamming them for essentially claiming that their radical policies will stop hurricanes.
DeSantis’ comments come after President Joe Biden visited Florida on Saturday, where he suggested that anyone who disagrees with the radical left’s climate agenda is unintelligent — declaring that “nobody can deny the impact of climate crises — at least nobody intelligent can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore.”
“Just look around, around the nation and the world for that matter,” Biden said during his speech in Live Oak, Florida. “Historic floods, intense droughts, extreme heat, deadly wildfires that have caused serious damage that we’ve never seen before.”
Biden and other Democrats have repeatedly tried to use natural disasters and other weather events to claim that humans are destroying the earth, while at the same time chastising conservatives for using weather events as evidence to disprove their radical climate change narrative — making claims such as “weather can’t be a measure for climate change,” despite using weather to push their own narrative.
During a press conference on Sunday providing an update on the status of recovery operations in the state, DeSantis condemned Democrats for “politicizing the weather.” He pointed out that there were numerous storms that happened well over 100 years ago that took the same path as Hurricane Idalia and hit Florida with similar devastating wind speeds of roughly 125 mph — yet the left tries to use current storms to claim that the weather has gotten more extreme due to “climate change.”
“So, I think the notion that somehow hurricanes are something new, that’s just false,” DeSantis argued. “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 added. “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.”
