Global warming may have taken a back seat in the national dialogue, but for lefties who still talk about it, the rhetoric has gotten crazier.
In his monologue titled “The World Is on Fire” on July 26, Trevor Noah on the Daily Show brought up some weird and wild speculations about climate change, so crazy that he even joked that he was on weed. While detailing all the effects of global warming, Noah hinted “it turns out that climate change doesn’t just make weather worse, it also makes humans worse.”
Citing a Pentagon statement from 2014, released by then Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Noah told the audience: “More climate change means more terrorism!”
The statement referenced came from back in the good old days, when the Obama administration decided to sell climate change as an “issue of national security.” The statement Noah referenced was as follows: “In our defense strategy, we refer to climate change as a ‘threat multiplier’ because it has the potential to exacerbate many of the challenges we are dealing with today -- from infectious disease to terrorism.”
Of course, the Daily Show, 4 years later, which prides itself on being “factually accurate,” ran this statement as gospel truth. Noah riffed, “In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if ISIS starts working this into their recruitment videos. ‘If you join us you die glorious death against the Western infidels. Also, we have air conditioning.’ And the hotter it gets the worse the world’s problems will be…”
Noah then mentioned that Japan was attempting to solve the problem by painting the roads white, which even he admitted was mildly ridiculous. He said, “I may have smoked some weed before I started this story. The point is though there’s a solution and look at least Japan is trying to fix the problem.”
Joking aside, the comedian apparently really wants people to start doing something about climate change, enough to justify the weird terrorism reference (wonder how factually accurate that speculation is). He pleaded the audience, “We could also try and regulate global carbon emissions and accept some economic pain in the short term to protect the future of our planet in the long term...no you know that’s crazy.”
Just remember, kids: Climate change equals ISIS.
