Don't play politics with Hurricane Ian

I don’t know what DeSantis specifically believes about climate change, its causes, its dangers and its cures.

But I do know it’s the opposite of the logic-challenged “View” ladies and the climate hysterics employed by the Biden administration and the major media.

The people who think our planet will catch on fire unless we turn the clock of civilization back 500 years acted this week like Ian was the first major hurricane to ever strike Florida.

Hurricanes have always gotten a ton of national attention from the news media — for obvious reasons.

But now, like everything else these days, they’ve become politicized.

Climate change nuts and their fellow travelers in the media hold up each named hurricane as one of their “proofs” that modern mankind’s burning of fossil fuels has doomed the planet.

But hurricanes are to Florida what earthquakes, fires and droughts are to California. What tornadoes are to Kansas and Nebraska. What Ice Ages every 100,000 years or so are to Mother Earth.

Sensible climate scientists like Bjorn Lomborg of Sweden know that despite Ian’s power and devastation, the average number and intensity of hurricanes striking the U.S. each decade has not increased this century.

Lomborg believes the globe is warming. But he says human activity is responsible for only a fraction of it and does not pose an existential threat to Earth or to us.

Not now. Not soon. And anyway, slowly warming temperatures are something he says we can easily prepare for and adapt to thanks to our wealth and technology.

Lomborg also stresses that cold kills at least seven times more humans around the world each year than heat — which probably explains why I’ve never heard of a single person who’s left California and moved to the Yukon.

— Michael Reagan

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