Fox News Channel: How the left is ‘weaponizing’ every weather event – ClimateDepot.com publisher Marc Morano argues the left is pushing the ‘climate boogeyman’ after the wildfires in Maui on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’
Fox News Channel – Jesse Watters Primetime – Broadcast August 17, 2023
Rough Transcript:
Morano: “It’s a comedy of woke errors from beginning to end. The idea that you can’t get water released to put out a fire because you have to have a conversation about ‘equity’ first. The idea that you can’t focus on making cables safer because Hawaii was the first state of the entire United States to declare itself carbon neutral and net zero by 2045.
As they’re patting themselves on the back and the grid operators are worried about the green energy instead of shoring up the energy which they were — multiple times, warned about — that needed to be shored up to fight wildfires. The land management issues. All of these areas and yet the Washington Post, Rachel, will still come out and say, climate came from Maui, and it’s coming for you next.
Morano: They’re still doing this climate boogeyman as the cause of these fires, not the gross mismanagement from A to Z here.
Morano: This was a fantastic story coming from ABC News. They quoted the governor saying this was a fire hurricane that caused this. And then ABC News says the obvious there’s no such thing as a fire hurricane. It was like a Mic Drop. This outraged the climate activists so much that professors and climate activists were using F-bombs on Twitter, going after ABC News. ABC had to take out ‘climate change wasn’t responsible’, and add the word ‘entirely’.
The science police came in and said you can’t go with that narrative. And this was the corporate media bowing to the Green New Deal activists. And it was an amazing sight to see because ABC News actually did real climate journalism for a change and then quickly paid dearly for it.
Before & After:
Rachel Campos-Duffy: Yeah, this is how big green gets quote-unquote, consensus. They bully everyone, threaten them with all kinds of things. Really quick. Are you afraid of this being used as a climate emergency, a climate lockdown? I know you’ve been warning about that happening, you know, in the very near future.
Morano: We already have the Green New Deal network using the Hawaiian fires in Maui to urge Joe Biden to declare a national climate emergency that would give him — according to the Center for Biological Diversity — 130 new executive powers, ala COVID, where they could literally bypass democracy once again — that is the end goal. They’re weaponizing every single weather event, and they’re not taking responsibility to prevent fires like we are seeing in Hawaii in the future.
Instead, it’s the boogeyman of climate, and they believe we need more mandates and more emergency powers; and if Joe Biden gets this, we are looking at a very restrictive culture.
Rachel Campos-Duffy: Marc Morano, you’re always raising the flags warning us of what’s to come. I think I’m afraid you’re right on this one, Marc. Thanks for joining us.
Marc Morano: Thank you, Rachel.