[NEWSBUSTERS] As Hurricane Ian devastates Florida, PBS’s Ace newshound Christiane Amanpour used Thursday’s Amanpour and Company to welcome environmental politics professor Leah Stokes to suggest that Gov. Ron DeSantis
 ...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president...
and other Republicans are responsible for the storm.
Amanpour led Stokes by wondering where Florida goes from here, "And as you say, it is becoming a recurring pattern. And as the president said, it is still moving across the state and perhaps to other areas. Which means that flooding is going to continue and it is continuing apace. What happens now in the wake of this or in its, literally, its wake, in the waters, that people are finding themselves? And we already heard millions of Floridians and others are cut off from electricity."
After discussing more immediate concerns, Stokes turned to the bigger picture, "So, this is why we can't stop ignoring the climate crisis. And unfortunately, the governor of Florida, DeSantis, he is not really willing to talk about climate change. In fact, earlier this summer he said that the state could not be investing pension funds, public dollars, in a way that is aligned with climate change. This is terrible. He is acting in ways that are undermining the safety and well-being of his own constituents in Florida."
Instead of correcting the record about DeSantis’s ESG order or noting that despite Ian, 2022 has been a below average year for hurricanes, Amanpour expanded the conversation even further:
Leah, how far out of step is he or not with the majority of American opinion? I ask you this because as you know, in President Trump's administration, they rolled back some 100 environmental rules and regulations. And the Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
, as you know, just curbed the EPA's ability to fight climate change. And you just mentioned DeSantis and his views. Have Americans changed their views? Are the deniers less, you know, powerful than they used to be when this was, you know, a matter of debate? 
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