From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
Great to see Ron De Santis talking common sense about Hurricane Milton.
Starts at 4 minutes in:
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History gets in the way of scary story lines.
Never let reality get in the way of a good story!
I wouldn’t be surprised if much of what’s in history books is bullshit.
If it wasn’t Historical research would be dead.
DeSantis is an impressive person.
Florida has an emerging problem though. It has become a republican haven and growing at an astounding rate. It has to be challenging to keep pace with its rate of immigration.
On present trends. Texas population will pass California by 2040 and Florida will pass California by 2050. Is US migration going to favour republicans?
I expect DeSantis will be in contention for US presidency at some time in the future.
Great governor…very strange president candidate. He is backed by big globalist money.
Has anyone ever attained any high office (Governor, President, Congress) without being backed by Some Big Money?
bingo!
Not strange at all. Once he announced his candidacy he was swamped with massive attacks and negative media coming from both sides – from Dems and their handmaidens in the media who feared him as a general election candidate much more than they feared Trump (for obvious reasons), and from Trump and his true believer supporters who also saw DeSantis as his strongest competitor for the GOP nomination.
It was a prototypical king-of-the-hill situation that few candidates can survive. If it had only been DeSantis vs the Dems captive media and a collection of GOP wannabes, he would have overcome it to win the nomination and then the Presidency.
Don’t forget that it took Ronald Reagan several tries before he won the GOP nomination (1968, 1976, then finally 1980) and then went on to easily beat Jimmah Cahtah. And he did not even have to contend with a preemptive media blizzard during the nominating contest because the Dem media never took him (“Reagan, a Hollywood “B” actor … are you kidding???”) seriously as a general election candidate – unlike DeSantis.
It has become standard practice for the Dem media to go after the perceived stronger GOP general election candidate during nominating contests, their hope being for the Dems to face the weaker candidate in November. They routinely practice that in all major races including Senate, House, and gubernatorial. Republicans never seem to learn.
Funny thing about Reagan- the left said he was a moron. I’ve read some of his writing from his younger days- forgot what they were published in- some magazines or journals or books- but I was impressed that he seemed very intelligent indeed. He just didn’t come across as a coastal “intellectual”.
Got any proof of that?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/31/follow-the-bouncing-ball-desantis-superpac-paid-club-for-growth-superpac-to-target-donald-trump-but-wait/#more-255348
They aren’t “big globalist money”. Not that I think anyone in politics is pure and innocent- they aren’t. Big anything is questionable to me- including big labor, big enviro organizations, all big institutions.
This is such a bullshit belief
He is a Bush Republican
Aren’t they all?
Yeah, he projects leadership and certainly knows his hurricane history.
There is somewhat of a housing bust happening in Florida right now which is at least partially due to rising insurance costs, as well as builders getting somewhat ahead of demand. These hurricanes will add to that problem. One should expect at least a temporary slow down in growth there.
There has always been a “boom and bust” character to the Florida real estate market going back more than a century. But no matter what, northerners will always want to vacation, retire to, and move to Florida due to all that terrible, terrible warm weather in the winter.
Besides there is no real estate crisis in Florida now, despite the negative media coverage … housing values are holding steady as are closed sales volumes. It only seems negative due to the huge burst in activity during and immediately following COVID, until Biden-Harris’s free money policies caused interest rates to spike last year.
I had an American friend in Munich who was a real-estate agent selling homes in Florida to Germans who wanted a place where it was warm. Not just folks from the frigid north of the USA.
“ selling homes in Florida to Germans”
Thereby adding more liberals.
Home mortgage rates are the main cause of the housing bust. The only lever to reduce inflation other than a balanced Federal budget is raising interest rates, Government is incapable of doing the former and only the fed can do the latter.
If it gets cheap enough I’ll buy a house there.
But I predict it won’t.
If you haven’t read his book- I’d recommend it. I am very impressed with him. All those people pouring into Florida, probably because the north ain’t warming up fast enough. 🙂
No, those moving out of California – Oregon – Washington – New York all get to Texas or Florida, and then set about trying to “fix” those two states. Texas is already becoming purple.
The folks who move never, ever, do a serious causal analysis about why they had to move. Sure, it was for a better job. But why were employment opportunities better in Texas of Florida than in their former home states? A proper causal analyis takes about 7 “why” questions to get to the root cause.
One certainly hopes so
Global warming since 1975 has reduced the temperature differential between the Arctic and the tropics.
Basic meteorology says this change should make the weather being more moderate in the Northern Hemisphere.
And that is exactly what has happened when looking at US hurricanes and tornadoes. Both in long term downtrends as Earth has warmed. Japanese cyclones too
There’s also the alternative that lowering the temperature differential weakens the jet stream winds, makes the jet stream more wavy, bringing you ‘heat domes’ to the South of the wavy jet stream and prolonged precipitation to the north.
It’s not all about one metric in one part of the world, the effects of lowering the temperature differential between the Arctic and the Tropics are far more complicated than that.
More complicated, yes, but no reason to think there’s an “emergency” which is official policy in some states and nations.
When humans focus on “climate change” [an oxymoron if ever there was one] they quickly forget that the climate (as in weather) has never been anything else other than randomly changing moment by moment everywhere you care to look. We may look for patterns and we may think we have found some. But what do we really see and record? Can you accurately predict a thunderstorm’s passage even over very short distances every time you see one?
We draw conclusions to what we think we see and record it at our peril, because we seldom live long enough to see how wrong our predictions and imaginations about the future are. We have that in common with all that has gone before since very few souls prove prescient. We are not getting better at predicting how good, bad or indifferent our human leaders can be. Starmer, for example, is proving to be much worse than many thought he could be when they voted for him.
Our (conscious) brains may choose to focus on the present for many a good reason. .
“Our (conscious) brains may choose to focus on the present for many a good reason.”
For millions of years we had to be hyper focused on not being eaten by a lion or a pack of wolves. Or hit over the head by a club.
Especially finding a good woman who could cook!
Clubs don’t hit people, people hit people.
Good to see De Santis speaking calmly, without pugilism, when totally defenestrating false arguments. He sounded like a Professor answering the question of a first year undergraduate, to be honest.
“defenestrating”
You learn something new around here every day! 🙂
And let’s not forget, pugilism!
Both great words.
One somewhat more striking than the other.
The other more lofting.
Yep… one of the reasons to keep coming back.
“DeSantis Savages Reporter”
No he didn’t,
he spoke the facts calmly & didn’t make stuff up, he’d obviously done his homework; would probably make a better POTUS than either of the present runners.
However he did crush the answer that the journalists wanted.
Not that it will stop them from supporting the ‘narrative’.
Most reporters were ‘educated’ from a young age with the Climate Change is bad and killing the Polar bears narrative. So they became good Climate Jugend and Green Shirts.
And they went to Journalism school for reinforcement.
The media routinely applies terms to Republicans that they never apply to Dems.
Republicans “savage” the media, while Dems “correct” them.
Republicans are “staunch”, while Democrats are “loyal”.
Republicans are “stubborn” while Dems are “faithful”.
Journalists today write and speak today like religionsts defending the faith against the heretics and infidels.
The same goes for weather people – unusually high temperatures are “higher than normal”, while unusually low temperatures are “lower than average”. Language is a weapon. And does anyone really know what “normal” is?
I’m imagining a time, maybe four years from now (no offense JD), when DeSantis is up on stage debating whether human-caused climate change is real or not.
Governor DeSantis deals with warmunism in exactly the right way: he authoritatively refutes the presumptions that are factually not true using, amazingly, facts. He does not get down in the weeds of climate science nuance as we tend to do here at WUWT – he cites things that anybody with a fifth grade education can comprehend if someone reminds them of things they already know or should know … ie that hurricanes have been recorded in the Atlantic and Pacific as long as written records go back … and that the worst and deadliest hurricanes in Florida took place a century or more ago … but today with 22 million residents the human impacts are necessarily going to be larger than a century ago.
Simple non-refutable stuff that does not depend upon dueling computer models.
Trump is not an effective communicator when he labels global warming a “hoax” and leaves it at that. It makes it all too easy for the Democrat warmunists to label him an ignorant blowhard. Far too many other Republicans seem to just shy away and avoid the entire subject of climate change theology, which only cedes the playing field to the warmunists.
The best antidote for bullshit is simple easy to understand facts.
I agree. Good comment.
I think Trump does call the Green New Deal a Green New Scam and leaves it at that.
As we know, climate science is very complicated. If you don’t know every aspect of it, then you are going to get in trouble arguing with people who do.
Most people are not able to argue every aspect of the issue knowledgeably.
So Trump is probably smart just to leave it at the basics when takling about it.
DeSantis, on the other hand, appears to be pretty knowledgeable and it wouldn’t surprise me too much if he could actually make a case against the narrative.
Human-caused Climate Change Policy is one of the most important subjects in our future. It is going to make and break whole nations. Somebody in a postion of authority ought to have a comprehensive understanding of the situation, if our nation and others, following our example, are to escape from this delusion that CO2 controls the Earth’s weather, when there is absolutely NO evidence that this is the case.
DeSantis looks like the most likely candidate to bust this delusional Human-caused Climate Change bubble. Mainly because he’s the only Republican speaking out on the subject, even if, in this case, it only deals with hurricanes.
Climate Change Policy must be defeated.
“Most people are not able to argue every aspect of the issue knowledgeably.”
I’d say 99% of the public know next to nothing about the climate.
And the other 1% know absolutely nothing at all
In Wokeachusetts, I now probably know more about the climate than 99.9% of the population- thanks to this site, Tony Heller, Jon Robinson, and a few others. I’ll mention a very good critique of some part of the dogma- and they’ll stare back at me like deer in the headlights- not even aware that “the science” isn’t absolute truth.
Start using Table 12.12 on P.90 of the 2021 UN IPCC AR6. That ought to blow their minds!
https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Page-90_-from-IPCC_AR6_WGI_Chapter12.pdf
Print copies & give to everyone
Everybody must memorize Table 12.12 on P.90, Chapter 12 of the 2021 UN IPCC AR6. Bring it up in every discussion with Leftist climate fearmongers and quote it in emails, letters to the editor, comments to Leftist media outlets & etc. It is the strongest argument against the constant barrage of Leftist climate propaganda.
Re: the video of DeSantis replying to a reporter’s question about hurricanes being related to global warming and advising “people should put this in perspective” (at 5m54s into the linked video) . . . WOW, imagine that coming today from a politician, let alone a State governor!
Journalists are generally ignorant of the subjects on which they “report”. They gravitated to their profession because they failed math and science. There are exceptions, but most commit egregious errors that they state as “facts”.
Gotta be fair… since Ron has traded his cowboy boots for his work boots, he has done a great job for the citizens in Florida.
A Florida resident here with lots of up close opinions. Ron ran for governor (second time) promising Gov. Then promptly tried to challenge DJT, while also changing Florida law so he did not have to resign as Gov to do so.
No matter how good he now does as second term Gov, he is forever liar toast to me as a naked lawyer politician.
What an absolute breath of fresh air.
Every government in Australia from Federal, State and Local blame climate change for every failure. Why are there morse potholes – more rain due to climate change. Why is there more flooding – due to sea level rise due to climate change. Why are there more intense wild fires – global warming due to climate change.
Give us truck loads of money and the scientist guarantee we will have perfect weather and stop climate change by 2100.