Laura Ingraham cites BBC article to claim “Trump was right” about wildfires, skips every mention of climate change
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On her radio program, Laura Ingraham read extensively from a BBC article examining President Donald Trump's claim that forest management was to blame for this month's catastrophic California wildfires, cherrypicking parts of it to claim that “Trump was right.”
But the article noted that Trump's comments were “criticised by some experts who say they ignore the bigger picture of climate change and population shifts in the state” and that “Many experts point out that climate change has made things worse, leading to higher temperatures, lower humidity and changes in wind and rainfall patterns.” Ingraham omitted all mentions of climate change in the article, going so far as to skip over the words in the middle of a sentence. The article included the following quote from one expert:
“But in the recent century or so, the emphasis has been on putting out any fires - and with climate change this has now created a tinderbox of vegetation,” Prof Doerr told BBC News.
But Ingraham read the quote like this:
But in the recent times, or like, when you say recent, like, the last century or so, the emphasis has been on putting out any fires, Prof Doerr told BBC News.
From the November 19 edition of Courtside Entertainment Group's The Laura Ingraham Show: