Greg Gutfeld praises mainstream media for ignoring climate change when reporting on Hurricane Helene
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Citation From the September 30, 2024, edition of Fox News' The Five
GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I'm going to pay some credit to the media. Because I think this is the first -- and I don't say this is a bright side to a disaster because a disaster is horrible. But from somebody who looks at the media, this is really the first time that the climate change narrative has fizzled, you know? It used to be instantaneously, a horrible thing would happen and everybody would blame it on man-made climate change.
And I think it goes down to people like Bjorn Lomborg, you know? These are people that have tirelessly pointed out the facts. You know this is an interesting fact. The U.S. population has risen fourfold since 1940, but it has risen fiftyfold in coastal areas. So, a hurricane that might have hit in 1940 would hit 800,000 homes, now it's 11 million. So when you adjust for wealth and population, the hurricane damage has not increased over the past 100 years. And the total hurricane energy has actually decreased since 1980. So it's -- at least there's some progress in the way we report these things. But politically, we will never change.
DANA PERINO (CO-HOST): And she didn't mention it either, Kamala Harris in her statement.
GUTFELD: No, she didn't. And I think it's because -- I think we have turned a corner in the climate change narrative because so many people have wised up on the climate models being inaccurate. And reading and understanding the research and also looking now towards how we demonize our mainstream energy sources and now with nuclear coming along.