Florida Governor DeSantis rejects climate change rationale for record-breaking rain ( wapo.st )

At this point, it's fairly common for significant rainfall events to have attribution studies showing that they're a result of the higher temperatures that fossil fuel burning has given us. Whether or not we end up with one for this particular event, it's something that we know will be more common if we keep on extracting and burning.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge ,
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Fucking idiot...

CharlesDarwin ,
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Oh, what relevant degree does he have, and what relevant area of science does he work in, again? I forgot.

jjjalljs ,

DeSantis is a dangerous idiot that should be removed from power.

PlantJam ,

Lucky he is term limited as governor.

lennybird ,
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Hard to imagine being this dumb. These people just aren't firing on all cylinders...

silence7 OP ,

It's not about dumb. it's that the fossil fuels industry is the biggest patron of the Republican Party, and they know who butters their toast

lennybird ,
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Yeah there are the grifters and the grifted and I'm mostly directing my frustration toward the common Joe who believes all this.

paf0 ,

It's not rain, it's just MAGA tears that built up since Trump lost in 2020.

Everythingispenguins ,

Have you not been listening, Tump didn't lose.

/s

Rapidcreek ,

DeSantis’ political base doesn’t believe in climate change, which is sort of like saying you don’t believe in gravity

Nusm ,
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https://yall.theatl.social/pictrs/image/98ae89f0-ba05-40ba-9a44-9b99f93c4038.gif

BigMacHole ,

That's because Florida is SO FREE that it would be ILLEGAL for Desantis to say that!

vegeta ,

It's rained before

Florida is surrounded by water

There is no consensus

Rainfall record is inaccurate

Animals and Plants can adapt

Water is good for plants

silence7 OP ,

There are always excuses when you're motivated by the size of bribe the fossil fuels industry can pay

qprimed , (edited )

Water is good for plants

some might even say ... its what plants crave! ™

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Of course he does. And he also just signed a law to remove the term climate change from state law.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1252012825/florida-gov-desantis-signs-bill-that-deletes-climate-change-from-state-law

partial_accumen ,

"man-made change of climate" it is then.

Wiz ,

"It's not climate change. It's Antifa Water!"

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