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….
