‘Nothing to Do With Climate Change’: Conservative Media and Trump Align on Fires (Published 2020)
Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson dismiss scientists’ determination that climate change is a key culprit in West Coast wildfires.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/business/media/wildfires-conservative-media.html
“Man-made global warming is not a scientific certainty; it cannot be proven, nor has it ever been,” Mr. Limbaugh declared on his Friday show, disregarding the mountains of empirical evidence to the contrary. He then pivoted to a popular right-wing talking point: that policies meant to curtail climate change are, in fact, an assault on freedom.