by Joseph Vazquez
MRC’s NewsBusters
JunkScience.com Founder Steve Milloy ripped an absurd Washington Post argument that Hurricane Ida — which caused power outages to more than a million homes — is a spawn of climate change.
The leftist Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper capitalized on the catastrophic hurricane to push insane eco-extremist talking points: “How climate change helped make Hurricane Ida one of Louisiana’s worst.” The story’s first paragraph peddled straight-up fear porn: “From its birth, the storm was destined to become a monster.” It continued, calling the storm “the poster child for a climate change-driven disaster.”
Milloy lambasted the propaganda in comments to MRC Business: “A non-record hurricane hitting the Gulf Coast in hurricane season is hardly a reason to claim that Ida is the ‘poster child’ of climate change.” Leave it to The Post to take a story of a natural disaster affecting millionsand juice it with leftist political spin. In its latest eco-extremism, the newspaper bleated how “[c]limate change not only sets the stage for bigger, fiercer, faster storms, it also makes the deadliest aspect of hurricanes — a deluge of water — even more intense.”
