Ron DeSantis is an ambitious man. He's not unintelligent, but his ambition has made him a fool and he does a disservice not only to himself and his reputation, but to all the people of Florida he supposedly "serves."

Discounting the role of climate change in Florida's repetitive extreme weather disasters, DeSantis recently said:

“I just think people should put this in perspective,” DeSantis said at Thursday’s news conference. “They try to take different things that happen with tropical weather and act like it’s something — there’s nothing new under the sun.”

He's a fool. There is something new under the sun. THIS CLIMATE.

This climate, the one we inhabit today, has never existed before in the history of this planet. This amount of atmospheric CO2, with these polar caps, with this landscape has never existed before in this history of this planet.

Should I repeat that again?

Yes, there have been hurricanes before.

But there have never before been hurricanes that formed in these climatic conditions.

Because this climate has never existed before in the history of this planet.

I wish people could get this through their thick skulls.

Especially intelligent people who should be able to understand this.

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 08:26 Monday, 14 October 2024