Between Friday and Saturday, CNN ran reports by chief climate correspondent Bill Weir painting the climate as being at stake in the presidential election, heavily hinting that Democrat Kamala Harris would be better for the climate than Republican Donald Trump.
Appearing on Friday morning with host Kate Bolduan, Weir suggested that the election is as important as the election of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860s as he intoned:
Then played a clip of Trump recalling that environmentalists started using the term “climate change” instead of “global warming,” and suggesting that higher sea levels might be a good thing. Then came a clip from 2020 in which he had argued that science does not know whether the world will get warmer or cooler in the future.
Weir then continued: “Science knows. Science really knows. But … and the President himself have vowed to roll back any climate progress on day…
