{"id":2021500,"date":"2023-09-04T15:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T19:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-slams-claim-that-climate-change-is-responsible-for-hurricane-idalia\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T15:13:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T19:13:38","slug":"desantis-slams-claim-that-climate-change-is-responsible-for-hurricane-idalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-slams-claim-that-climate-change-is-responsible-for-hurricane-idalia\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis rejects link between climate change and Hurricane Idalia."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-slams-claim-that-climate-change-is-responsible-for-hurricane-idalia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2021500&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Slams Claims Linking Hurricane Idalia to Climate \u2064Change<\/h2>\n<p>Florida\u200c Governor Ron DeSantis has strongly\u200b criticized\u2062 claims that climate change was responsible for \u2062the devastating Hurricane \u2062Idalia that hit northwestern\u200b Florida \u200dlast month. During a recent tour, the\u200b governor and GOP presidential \u200dcandidate responded to President Joe Biden&#8217;s statement suggesting that climate change was behind a series of natural disasters, including \u200dHurricane Idalia.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I think if you look, there was\u2064 a storm that went on this almost exact track in 1896. And \u200cit had 125-mile-an-hour winds just like \u200bthis one,&#8221;\u200d Mr. DeSantis said in response.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He referred to a storm that occurred over 120 years ago, long before the widespread use of\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-of-the-east-coast-new-jersey-moves-to-ban-new-gas-powered-cars-by-2035\/\" title=\"NJ Bans Gas-Powered Cars by 2035, Aims to be 'East Coast's California'\">gas-powered \u200bcars<\/a>\u200b and during\u2062 the early stages of industrialization in \u200cthe United States.<\/p>\n<h3>Historical Perspective<\/h3>\n<p>Governor\u200b DeSantis highlighted the Labor Day hurricane of\u200d 1935, which remains \u200bthe most powerful storm ever recorded \u200cin Florida with sustained winds of 185\u200b miles per \u2063hour. He \u2063emphasized that hurricanes are not\u2064 a new phenomenon and that attributing them solely to climate\u2064 change is \u200bfalse.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The notion \u2062that somehow hurricanes are something\u200c new, that&#8217;s \u2063just false. We&#8217;ve got\u2064 to stop politicizing the weather and stop\u2063 politicizing \u2062natural disasters,&#8221; DeSantis stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He urged people to gain perspective\u2063 and cautioned\u2062 against using storms as a pretext to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paypal-ceos-interview-with-world-economic-forum-could-suggest-mentality-behind-backtracked-misinformation-penalty\/\" title=\"PayPal CEO\u2019s Interview With World Economic Forum Could Suggest Mentality Behind Backtracked \u2018Misinformation\u2019 Penalty\">advance political agendas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Engaging with the Issue<\/h3>\n<p>Recent years\u2062 have seen\u2064 a \u2064tendency among some scientists and media outlets to immediately link hurricanes to climate change, suggesting that behavioral \u2062changes \u200dare necessary. Hurricane Idalia was no exception, with publications \u200blike The Washington Post, The Associated Press,\u200d CNN, and Reuters asserting a connection between the storm and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>However, Governor DeSantis firmly rejected this \u200bviewpoint, calling \u2064it a &#8220;lie.&#8221; He emphasized \u2062the need to avoid politicizing weather events and natural disasters.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The notion that somehow if we\u2064 just adopt very \u2064left-wing\u2063 policies at the federal level, that \u200dsomehow\u200d we\u200b will\u200d not have hurricanes, that is a lie,&#8221; DeSantis asserted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He criticized \u2064those who exploit the suffering\u200b caused by natural \u2064disasters to push their own agendas and vowed \u2062that Florida would not \u2063engage in such practices.<\/p>\n<h2>Campaign\u200d and Recovery Efforts<\/h2>\n<p>Before Hurricane Idalia struck Florida, Governor\u200b DeSantis\u2063 canceled his\u200d presidential\u2062 campaign events to\u2064 focus \u200don storm preparations and recovery efforts. The storm even\u200d caused\u200c damage to the\u2062 governor&#8217;s mansion in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n<p>President\u2063 Biden visited Florida to assess the storm&#8217;s impact, while some\u200b media outlets highlighted DeSantis&#8217;s absence during the visit. However, President Biden\u200c clarified that he was not disappointed and \u200cacknowledged DeSantis&#8217;s involvement in planning the response \u200cwith FEMA.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding future campaign activities, it remains uncertain when Governor DeSantis will resume his\u200d campaign. However, \u200ba super PAC supporting him, called\u2064 &#8220;Never Back Down,&#8221; has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-slams-claim-that-climate-change-is-responsible-for-hurricane-idalia\/\" title=\"DeSantis rejects link between climate change and Hurricane Idalia.\">temporarily paused voter canvassing<\/a> in \u200bseveral states and set higher fundraising\u2062 goals for the upcoming quarters.<\/p>\n<p>The PAC&#8217;s communications\u2062 director, Erin Perri, stated, &#8220;We see \u2064real opportunities in the first three. The\u2063 first three are going to set the conditions for\u2063 the March states.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dismissed the notion that climate change caused Hurricane Idalia&#8217;s devastation in northwestern Florida. While on a tour, the GOP presidential candidate addressed President Joe Biden&#8217;s claim that climate change was behind recent natural disasters, including the hurricane. DeSantis criticized the assertion during his response on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2021501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}