WATCH: Ron DeSantis absolutely nukes a reporter who tried to tie yesterday’s tornadoes from Hurricane #Milton to global warming pic.twitter.com/Pj0nENTilZ
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 10, 2024
OUCH: A reporter tried a second time to get DeSantis to blame #Milton on climate change.
It did not go well for the journo. pic.twitter.com/K7Hm4aY70w
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 10, 2024
During a briefing from the Florida governor today, and you’d think some of these reporters would have been handed their a** enough times by DeSantis that they’d have learned a lesson, but that’s obviously not the case.
DeSantis schooled multiple reporters trying to push the global warming narrative and it was a lesson in “that’s how it’s done.” Watch:
Somebody else tried and met a similar fate:
DeSantis Shuts Down Reporter For Tying Tornadoes, Hurricanes To Global Warming – DeSantis cited a long list of facts about hurricanes that the state has faced dating back more than 150 years.
“If you go back to 1851, there’s probably been 27 hurricanes that have had lower barometric, so the lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is,” DeSantis said. “I think there have been about 27 hurricanes that have had lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did, and of those, 17 occurred I think prior to 1960.”
“The most powerful hurricane on record since the 1850s in the state of Florida occurred in the 1930s, the Labor Day Hurricane, barometric pressure on that was 892 millibars,” he continued. “It totally wiped out the Keys. We’ve never seen anything like it, and that remains head and shoulders above any powerful hurricane that we’ve ever had in the state of Florida.”
He noted that the deadliest hurricane the state has ever faced was the Okeechobee hurricane in 1928, which killed more than 4,000 people.
“So I just think people should put this in perspective there,” he said. “They try to take different things that happen with tropical weather and act like it’s something, there’s nothing new under the sun. You know, this is something that the state has dealt with for its entire history, and it’s something that will continue to deal with.”
“I think what’s changed is we’ve got 23 million people, a storm that hits is likely to hit more people and property than it would have 100 years ago, and so the potential for that damage has grown, but what’s also changed is our ability to do the prevention, to pre-stage the assets,” he added. “I mean, we never did the pre-staging of power assets until I became governor. Now, people like expect that, but that wasn’t what was done in the past. That’s why people would be out with power for three weeks when we have hurricanes, we thought that that’s not good. Now we have to pay to get these guys to come in, but my view is, the quicker you get everyone hooked up, the better off the economy is going to be anyway.”
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Hurricane Milton made landfall last night as a Cat-3 with a Vₘₐₓ of 120 mph and a MSLP of 954 hPa. Milton is now undergoing extratropical transition as it exits the Florida coastline.
For Conterminous U.S. landfalls, by pressure (recall lower MSLP = stronger storm), Milton… pic.twitter.com/0JqNONHxgl
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) October 10, 2024
