Stephen Colbert jumped on Trump’s statements about climate change, saying: “After a year of massive storms causing untold damage, and our glaciers just shrinking in every direction, Trump was still ambivalent on the concept of climate change. He told the reporter, ‘You have scientists on both sides of the issue.’ That is true; there are scientists on both sides. On one side, all the scientists. On the other, one guy who runs a blog called RealTrueAmericanScienceEagle.jesus.”
Climate Change Is No Joking Matter. Except, This Week, It Was..
Late night is heating up. That is, shows like “Saturday Night Live,” “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” and “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” have been focusing on global warming in the past.
Beer jokes. Al Gore with some startlingly profane rappers. And, of course, digs at President Trump.
We don’t usually get a lot of laughs out of climate change, a topic that gets precious little airtime, even on the broadcast news shows.
But comedy shows riff off the news, and there has been a lot of climate science in the news recently, especially the grim report from a United Nations science panel predicting enormous weather disasters by 2040, well ahead of previous estimates.
And then there was Mr. Trump, who gave an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday in which he again expressed his doubts about climate change, even suggesting that it may reverse itself. (Not going to happen, Mr. President.)
He came back to the topic on Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press, explaining that “I have a natural instinct for science, and I will say that you have scientists on both sides of the picture.” (For the record: The percentage of scientists whose work supports the overwhelming evidence for climate change is itself overwhelming.)
Last Saturday’s episode of “SNL” had not one but two segments that dealt with climate change, including that rap number about trees (with a cameo by Al Gore). More
He came back to the topic on Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press, explaining that “I have a natural instinct for science, and I will say that you have scientists on both sides of the picture.” (For the record: The percentage of scientists whose work supports the overwhelming evidence for climate change is itself overwhelming.)
Last Saturday’s episode of “SNL” had not one but two segments that dealt with climate change, including that rap number about trees (with a cameo by Al Gore). More
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