Chris Wallace Asks Rick Scott: Do You See a Connection Between Climate Change and Increasing Intensity of Storms?

‘You have expressed mixed feelings over the years about climate change and about the role that human activity plays, but it sure seems like these hurricanes are getting bigger, stronger, more intense’

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WALLACE: "One of the reasons, it seems, that Dorian keeps growing, it is it’s traveling over so much warm water as it has across the caribbean, getting closer now to the Florida mainland. You have expressed mixed feelings over the years about climate change and about the role that human activity plays, but it sure seems like these hurricanes are getting bigger, stronger, more intense. You see a connection?"

SCOTT: “First off, we know climate changing and we know our storms seem to be getting bigger. Just with the last four years as governor, I have four of them, now we have been my first year out as governor, so we don’t know what the causes but we got to react to it. As governor, we put money into dealing with things like sea level rise, more mitigation and things like that. What got to continue to figure this out."

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