Rick Scott says Helene shows 'the climate is clearly changing'
Though the concept of climate change has been removed from state law in recent months, Florida’s former Governor is saying he agrees with mainstream scientists on the issue.
“The climate is clearly changing,” U.S. Sen. Rick Scott said on CNN, addressing the destruction left by Hurricane Helene.
“We know things are changing. We’ve got to figure out, how do we react to that?” Scott added, answering host Dana Bash’s inquiries about the subject.
Scott cited storm surge as a compounding problem.
“It seems like what’s happening is the storm surge is getting worse. I mean, we had over 10 foot of storm surge in the Big Bend,” Scott said. “That’s a massive amount of water.”
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