A.G. Gancarski
Once labeled a “green Governor” even by liberal editorial pages, Ron DeSantis is now seeing red over the politics of climate change.
In hurricane-ravaged Yankeetown, the Governor Sunday was asked about President Joe Biden’s assertion, made Saturday in Live Oak, that “nobody intelligent can deny the impact of the climate crisis.”
The Governor’s take? Comments like that are just a “lie” designed to “politicize” natural phenomena.
Noting that storms have hit Florida long before the current era, the Governor said the “notion that somehow hurricanes are something new” is “just false.”
“And we’ve got to stop politicizing the weather and stop politicizing natural disasters,” DeSantis continued. “We know from history, there have been times where it’s been very busy in Florida.”
In the “late forties, early fifties,” DeSantis said there were “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. 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’s 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.”
The President sees it differently, of course.
“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 Saturday. “Historic floods, intense droughts, extreme heat, deadly wildfires that have caused serious damage that we’ve never seen before.”
40 comments
My Take
September 3, 2023 at 1:24 pm
DeSScumtis distorts.
Dog bites man.
Biscuit
September 3, 2023 at 1:51 pm
Hey, don’t blame dogs. He’s a stinkass all by himself.
Arf.
eva
September 3, 2023 at 1:34 pm
According to my younger brother’s acquaintance, The $700 compared to all the millions he’s giving to Ukraine. Why? We need it,” she said. “That’s vs03 why, we don’t understand why. We’re citizens.
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Just open the link…………………………………………….sprl.in/TTDIHGl
Rick Whitaker
September 3, 2023 at 3:13 pm
why would i open a link to a pack of lies and distortions, i wouldn’t
Charlotte c Grove
September 4, 2023 at 4:29 pm
So true….MAGAS aren’t interested in the truth…only what Fox Noise tells them.
Dog's Ma
September 3, 2023 at 2:02 pm
DeSantis is, of course, correct. The ever-present and continuing cycles in climate and weather are being used by Left wing demagogues to advance their anti-Western agendas. Ten thousand years ago there were glaciers in Ohio, and as recently as a couple centuries ago we went through a period called “The Little Ice Age.” While change sometimes come at a faster pace than we are comfortable with, the truth is that all the greeny-weeny dogmas that the Left tries to smash down our throats will have very little affect at all on the future of the climate, which will be what it will be, regardless of how many windmills you build to charge how many Teslas.
ScienceBLVR
September 3, 2023 at 2:36 pm
To quote the philosopher, Silly Wabbit, “You kwazy”
Silly Wabbit
September 3, 2023 at 2:47 pm
Sure is!
My Take
September 3, 2023 at 2:54 pm
It takes a dim one to assume something IS happening naturally because it CAN happen naturally.
All people die, but there is still murder.
Dog's man
September 3, 2023 at 3:40 pm
Even if you eliminate murder, people will still die. Even if you eliminate Western-style economy, the earth will still warm.
Silly Wabbit
September 3, 2023 at 3:47 pm
You stewpid.
My Take
September 3, 2023 at 4:14 pm
But not as fast, certainly.
And perhaps not at all, very possibly.
Beverly
September 3, 2023 at 3:45 pm
We use to walk across the harbor in Gloucester ma on ice hasn’t happened in 30 years
Rick Whitaker
September 3, 2023 at 9:07 pm
no, desantis is dead wrong, of course. when i started reading your post at first i thought you were being sarcastic, and then i realized you were actually serious. i was shocked. i didn’t think anybody would cut their nose off to spite their face. what a loser.
JAN FREED
September 4, 2023 at 1:06 pm
Your paranoid fantasies cannot account for the fact that the number of billion dollar and greater climate disasters have increased 5-9 times since 1980.
Charlotte c Grove
September 4, 2023 at 4:29 pm
Too much Fox Noise has fried your brain…
Jorge
September 5, 2023 at 6:32 am
Are you a scientist?
I think not. The consensus from the scientific community is that climate change is caused by human activity.
The arrogance of the GOP to claim they know better is ignorant and dangerous.
Michael K
September 3, 2023 at 3:22 pm
Science? History? Not this governor. He has “beliefs” which are at odds with science. More death means nothing if he can get a MAGAt vote from his ignorance.
ScienceBLVR
September 3, 2023 at 3:41 pm
It’s been noted, every disaster movie begins with the politicians not listening to the scientists…
Rick Whitaker
September 3, 2023 at 9:09 pm
sounds like you are describing a super – predator
tom palmer
September 3, 2023 at 3:43 pm
During the last Ice Age, the coast of Florida was a 100 ,miles west of Tampa. You do the math.
My Take
September 3, 2023 at 4:19 pm
And during the last interglacial before the present one, gulf water was ~30 feet deep AT present Tampa.
DavidT
September 3, 2023 at 4:22 pm
Poor Ron. Hurricane season is far from over so why make an issue of this already? And I was just reading today insurance companies don’t want to cover natural disasters anymore. SO good luck getting Floridians covered anymore Governor
Charlotte c Grove
September 4, 2023 at 4:31 pm
If ole Ron was not wasting Fl $$$ flying migrants out of Texas, he might spend that $$ helping the residents in Fl with their skyrocketing insurance bills…
Tjb
September 3, 2023 at 4:57 pm
I can’t believe that DeSantis went to Harvard and Yale. Does he even care about our children and their future.
Our actions regarding pollution and the use of fossil fuel are expediting the negatives of climate change.
Michael K
September 3, 2023 at 5:53 pm
Carlos Lozada said it best:
“He went to Harvard and Yale, but didn’t inhale. “
Mike Whelan
September 4, 2023 at 11:03 am
Maybe he should have.
Rick Whitaker
September 3, 2023 at 9:16 pm
he’s a harvard – predator. remember,, bush went to yale on a legacy entry. i didn’t go to harvard or yale and i’m smarter than desantis. weird huh
Charlotte c Grove
September 4, 2023 at 4:33 pm
Bush was a cheer leader and he graduated in Art History….not exactly rocket science or anything too meaningful..
Susan
September 3, 2023 at 5:43 pm
Well said, Michael….
Ocean Joe
September 3, 2023 at 6:42 pm
He knows better. That says it all.
Bruderly David
September 3, 2023 at 7:23 pm
I heard that Ronnie wants the Florida legislature to repeal the laws of physics… specifically the laws of thermodynamics…Evangelicals are divided about challenging God…
My Take
September 3, 2023 at 8:25 pm
Indiana I believe it was once tried to make pi a rational number.
Charlotte c Grove
September 4, 2023 at 4:34 pm
HaHa..
PeterH
September 3, 2023 at 9:15 pm
Rick Scott banned Florida legislators for referring to “global warming” or “climate change” in their public speeches. It’s commonly called “REPUBLICAN FREEDUMB!”
Republicans are America’s biggest problem!
Vote all Republicans out of office!
rustic
September 4, 2023 at 7:14 am
Only an idiot blames the media for the news. Rona DeStupid is a joke. He is always blaming the media and he has a fetish for Fix Entertainment Television whom he worships. Bring on the Cyclones!
PiecedOff
September 4, 2023 at 9:53 am
You say other people are politicizing climate change?
Do you see the irony in what you’re saying??
How about now?
John Barron
September 4, 2023 at 10:27 am
Meatball and Leona (aka Billary the sequel) politicize and weaponize everything!!! Like junior high lunchroom bullies!!! And then they blame the left and disparage Trump supporters!!! Why? Because they are RINOs pure and simple!!! Trump will fix global warming, the DeSancti will just whine and whinge like weak children.
Charlotte c Grove
September 4, 2023 at 4:35 pm
Ha….Trump could not even doing anything about the Pandemic expect tell people to drink bleach!!
He is the typical GOP loser.
Mike Whelan
September 4, 2023 at 11:01 am
Ronnie desantis should go back wherever he came from. I have lived in Florida since 1959 and I have never seen a more immature and uninformed individual as desantis. Maybe he should go back in the navy, oh yea, navy didn’t want him either.
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