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Florida Governor DeSantis rejects climate change rationale for record-breaking rain

wapo.st DeSantis rejects climate change rationale for record-breaking rain

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration are pushing back against assertions that the storm had anything to do with climate change.

DeSantis rejects climate change rationale for record-breaking rain

At this point, it's fairly common for significant rainfall events to have attribution studies showing that they're a result of the higher temperatures that fossil fuel burning has given us. Whether or not we end up with one for this particular event, it's something that we know will be more common if we keep on extracting and burning.

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