Charlie Spiering, Senior Political Reporter, Washington, Dc
President Joe Biden berated climate change science skeptics on Wednesday, during a visit to survey the storm damage from flooding caused by Hurricane Helene.
The president toured both South Carolina and North Carolina, traveling aboard his Marine One helicopter to view the historic flooding and devastation, six days after the storm first made landfall in Florida.
Over 160 people are now confirmed dead in six states as historic rainfall from the hurricane flooded entire towns, washed away homes, damaged many of the highways, and devastated the region.
'Nobody can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore. At least I hope they don't,' he said. 'They must be brain dead if they do.'