ABC is so invested in the narrative that man-made climate change is real and an existential threat to the planet that they dedicated the entire A-block of their Sunday news roundtable talk show This Week to the myth that the planet is under threat from a July heatwave. Co-moderator Martha Raddatz kept her now dust-covered journalist hat on the shelf and continued wearing her left-wing activist hat while scolding Americans for not buying into her party's climate cult.
"Wherever you are joining us from this morning, the scorching summer heat wave unlike anything we've seen before is affecting your life," Raddatz lectured at the opening of the program. Good morning to you, Martha!
After fretting the warm weather across the United States and areas in Asia and Europe, Raddatz insisted "Scientists warn that human activities contributing to an increasingly warming planet could lead to a future where weather like this will become more common, more deadly, and longer-lasting. It's an urgent global challenge for people, their communities, their countries, and the planet we all share."
Later on, the left-wing anchor brought Washington state governor and fellow climate change activist Jay Inslee to strategize on how to convince normal Americans to be as paranoid about the weather as they are. "You have candidates out there like Donald Trump who mock the idea of climate change, and there are a vast number of Americans who ignore it, don't care about it, or don't believe it," Raddatz groused. "How do you convince those people it's time to care?"
Predictably, Inslee also used this as an opportunity to go after Trump and Florida Republican governor Ron DeSantis for not obeying their demands to spend their limited days on this earth screaming at the sky.
"We can't wait for Donald Trump to figure this out. We don't have time to mess around to wait for this knucklehead to figure this out," Inslee wailed. "We just got to make sure he's not in office, and the way we do this is vote against climate deniers, vote against people who refuse to assist this moral and economic crisis that we have."
"When Ron DeSantis wants to go swimming, he can't because the water is like a sauna, like a hot tub off his beaches. We just got to make sure those folks are not in office. We don't have the luxury of allowing these people to destroy the planet," Inslee cried.
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ABC’s This Week
7/23/2023
9:01:48 a.m. EasternMARTHA RADDATZ: Wherever you are joining us from this morning, the scorching summer heat wave unlike anything we've seen before is affecting your life. It's engulfed parts of the country for weeks, torching the southwestern and eastern United States with triple-digit temperatures, leaving tens of millions of people under heat alerts this weekend. It is a life-threatening emergency. The extreme heat is also searing Europe and Asia, putting the world on track once again for the hottest month ever recorded. It's a record that is not likely to stand for long as scientists warn that human activities contributing to an increasingly warming planet could lead to a future where weather like this will become more common, more deadly, and longer lasting. It's an urgent global challenge for people, their communities, their countries, and the planet we all share.
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9:18:21 a.m. Eastern
RADDATZ: You have candidates out there like Donald Trump who mock the idea of climate change, and there are a vast number of Americans who ignore it, don't care about it, or don't believe it. How do you convince those people it's time to care?
GOV. JAY INSLEE (D-WA): Well, we can't wait for Donald Trump to figure this out. We don't have time to mess around to wait for this knucklehead to figure this out. We just got to make sure he's not in office, and the way we do this is vote against climate deniers, vote against people who refuse to assist this moral and economic crisis that we have. You can't wait for these folks. You just got to make sure they're not in office where they can do damage. Let them go off and play golf. We'll solve this problem. It's a solvable problem if we work together, and people are coming around to this very, very rapidly because their homes are burning down. They're choking on smoke from the Canadian fires. When Ron DeSantis wants to go swimming, he can't because the water is like a sauna, like a hot tub off his beaches. We just got to make sure those folks are not in office. We don't have the luxury of allowing these people to destroy the planet.
RADDATZ: Okay. Thanks very much for joining us this morning, governor. We appreciate it.
