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Craig Pittman: “I think you should be more honest about what that would mean for people, taxing them to smithereens, stopping oil and gas, making people pay dramatically more for energy. We would collapse as a country, so this whole idea of climate ideology driving policy, it just factually can’t work.”
— When a reporter asked him about the role climate change played in making Helene and Milton into monster hurricanes, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis first attacked the reporter for daring to ask such a thing. Then he claimed, erroneously, that trying to combat climate change would ruin our economy.
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Thirteen people have died so far this year of a “flesh-eating” bacteria after Florida was slammed by back-to-back hurricanes, which pushed floodwaters onto land, public health department data showed Tuesday, according to the Temple Terrace Patch. The health Department said 74 cases of the disease have been reported in Florida since hurricanes Helene and Milton.
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Hurricanes Helene and Milton caused so much damage, government and private experts say they will likely join the infamous ranks of Katrina, Sandy and Harvey as super costly $50-billion-plus killers, reports the Associated Press. Worse still, most of the damage — 95% or more in Helene’s case — was not insured.
