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Gov. DeSantis, it starts with you.
No, it’s not too soon. After Hurricane Ian, it’s time to say ‘climate change,’ Gov. DeSantis
When Gov. Ron DeSantis referred to a “biblical storm surge,” he was assessing Hurricane Ian’s damage and, unknowingly, prophesying what’s to come in future years and decades in Florida.
Ian displayed many of the characteristics scientists say climate change will bring — and already has brought — to hurricanes because of warmer ocean temperatures and increased moisture in the atmosphere. The storm intensified with alarming speed, its winds nearly doubling in 24 hours before landing on Florida’s west coast as a Category 4. These “rapid intensifying” hurricanes have accounted for 16 of the 20 hurricanes over the past two seasons in the Atlantic, The Washington Post reported. The storm surge DeSantis referred to is made worse by sea-level rise....
Yet you rarely, if ever, hear DeSantis utter the words “climate change.” ‘There are many Republicans who understand the gravity of this issue, but the GOP’s rising star looks at it as leftist agenda item....
Nothing will happen until more elected leaders utter these simple words publicly, again and again, and at the risk of sounding like a broken record: Climate change is here, and it’s making hurricanes stronger and more destructive.
When Gov. Ron DeSantis referred to a “biblical storm surge,” he was assessing Hurricane Ian’s damage and, unknowingly, prophesying what’s to come in future years and decades in Florida.
Ian displayed many of the characteristics scientists say climate change will bring — and already has brought — to hurricanes because of warmer ocean temperatures and increased moisture in the atmosphere. The storm intensified with alarming speed, its winds nearly doubling in 24 hours before landing on Florida’s west coast as a Category 4. These “rapid intensifying” hurricanes have accounted for 16 of the 20 hurricanes over the past two seasons in the Atlantic, The Washington Post reported. The storm surge DeSantis referred to is made worse by sea-level rise....
Yet you rarely, if ever, hear DeSantis utter the words “climate change.” ‘There are many Republicans who understand the gravity of this issue, but the GOP’s rising star looks at it as leftist agenda item....
Nothing will happen until more elected leaders utter these simple words publicly, again and again, and at the risk of sounding like a broken record: Climate change is here, and it’s making hurricanes stronger and more destructive.
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article266579271.html