Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is running for the 2024 presidency, schooled reporters in Florida, Sunday, when asked about whether climate change was responsible for Hurricane Idalia.

“Well, I think if you look, there was a storm that went on this almost exact track in 1896. And it had 125-mile-an-hour winds just like this one,” DeSantis said in response to President Joe Biden’s alleged comment that climate change was responsible for the devastating storm. He noted that “if you look at the state of Florida, the most powerful storm, hurricane we’ve ever had is, actually, the anniversary is now—it’s the Labor Day hurricane of 1935. It had an 185-mile-an-hour sustained winds.”

He went on to say that “We’ve got to stop politicizing the weather and stop politicizing natural disasters.”

NEW: DeSantis scathes blaming climate change for #Idalia, saying the most powerful storm for Florida was in 1935

“The notion that we just adopt very left wing policies at the federal level, that somehow we will not have hurricanes – that is a lie.” pic.twitter.com/iCOO8nynGD

— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) September 4, 2023

Left-Wing Policies Will Not Change The Climate

“I think sometimes people need to take a breath and get a little bit of perspective here,” DeSantis continued. “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.” (LEARN MORE: More Than 850 People Still Missing After Maui Wildfires)

“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.”

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