Making several appearances Thursday on CNN to discuss the aftermath of Donald Trump winning the presidential election, CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir fretted over a second Trump administration’s climate policies, and declared that the President-elect is “the most notorious climate denier in history” who will let the climate “go to hell.”
This is the same Bill Weir who famously declared “even the seagulls” were “awed” with Barack Obama’s first inauguration.
Shortly before 9:00 a.m. during extended election coverage, CNN host Sara Sidner hinted at global warming being to blame for recent extreme weather, and provocatively called Trump a “climate denier” as she set up the segment:
These wildfires are just the latest in a slew of unprecedented severe weather events — including, as you remember, back-to-back hurricanes and extreme heat. President-elect Donald Trump is a known climate denier vowing to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord a second time. His election comes on the heels of startling new data showing worsening effects of delaying action against climate change.
Her reference to a high hurricane frequency being “unprecedented” flies in the face of data showing there have been many times since the mid 1800s that several hurricanes have made landfall in the U.S. in just one hurricane season.
Weir then came aboard and recounted the different possibilities for how many degrees warmer the world might become and argued that it is necessary to cut back fossil fuel burning within five years to prevent dire consequences. He soon took aim at President-elect Trump: “Every country in the world says we’re going to try to hold the line at 1.5, and now we’re here just as maybe the most notorious climate denier in history takes power once again.” […]
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