No, I don’t trust him.
But the headline to this thread is misleading.
What he said is that he doesn’t know whether the rising sea level he has seen in FL is from human-influenced climate change or not, but either way it is something that he thinks needs to be handled. (I paraphrase.)
Any Floridian Freepers here who can comment on the claim of a rising sea level down there?!?
“Any Floridian Freepers here who can comment on the claim of a rising sea level down there?!?”
Lol. Florida is the flattest state in the union, just barely above sea level as it is. That’s why the entire peninsula was a swamp when the Europeans first visited, before they built seawalls and such. If the sea level rose by anything significant, then probably 95% of the state would be under water.
Who knows if it’s rising?
But any candidate that doesn’t consider all the environmental factors including climate in south Florida is not fit for office. The state has huge Gulf and Atlantic coastlines, a massive number of inland lakes and rivers, and the gigantic Everglades. There’s a lot of agriculture and the summers are rainy and winters are dry, so water management is a big deal here. Even if rising sea levels aren’t the concern the climate has to be considered when addressing the red tides in the Gulf and green algae blooms in the lakes.
What DeSantis said was not unreasonable or green pandering, it was the proper response to a host of issues that Florida has to deal with. It’s far more than an environmental issue here, it’s an economic one too.