Far-right political performance artist Mo Ron DeSantis has another climate-fueled hurricane on his hands

 

Top headline:  NPR

Middle headline and graphic:  New York Times

Bottom headline:  Science News

From Science News:

The rapid intensifications of both storms were fueled by the Gulf’s extremely warm water. Developing tropical storms can suck up heat from warm seawater, dragging the humid air upward where it condenses, releasing that heat into the storm’s core. As the storm moves forward, it pumps more and more water and heat into the air, and the spiraling winds will move faster and faster. Milton’s particularly explosive rate of growth may also be linked to its relatively compact size, compared with Helene. 

Two separate reports published this week find that those warm Gulf waters were made hundreds of times more likely by human-caused climate change.  [emphasis added]

Other Mo Ron posts:

2024

Performative far-right politics of Mo Ron DeSantis a disaster for Florida.  (10/6)

Governor Ron DeSantis dismisses evidence of climate change found all over South Florida.  (6/15)

Flooding all the time:  The future of South Florida in 6 screenshots.  (6/13) 

Ron DeSantis cancels climate change.  Unfortunately for Florida residents, its effects are only going to get worse.  (6/8)

Welcome to Ron DeSantis's Florida:  Don't say gay, don't say climate change.  What idiocy is next?  (5/21)

2020
Donald Trump pet, Ron DeSantis, stretches the leash on climate change to the breaking point. (1/3)

2016

The video doesn't tell us about the incidents of sunny-day flooding.  (10/24)
Cherry Grove, South Carolina: Call it nuisance flooding or high-tide flooding or sunny day flooding, but most of all call it more likely to happen.  (2/23)
Norfolk, Virginia.  (2/23)

2014
Sunny-day flooding in Miami Beach: The everyday reality and the political denial.  (5/9)