Peter Welch — Sep 11, 2024

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September 11, 2024, Senate floor (office release dated September 12: “last night”). Welch named this storm: “Louisiana right now is bracing for the worst as Hurricane Francine moves onshore, and our prayers in Vermont are with the people of Louisiana.” After listing a year and a half of floods, fires, hurricanes, and tornadoes, he said hard-hit communities were being financially destroyed: “It is a function of the effects of climate change.” Later: “The entire country has been hammered by climate change and by these weather events.” Those climate sentences are about disaster aid for the country and for Vermont’s repeated floods, not a claim that Francine is linked to climate change.

Codes

• Disaster Mention yes — Names Hurricane Francine moving onshore.
• Climate Connection no — Climate sentences are countrywide aid talk, not Francine.
• Mentioned Republican Obstruction of Climate Action no — No obstruction claim.