CBS's Nate Burleson ties the underwater volcanic eruption and 50-foot-high tsunami in Tonga to climate change: "We talk about climate change quite a bit. These stories are a harsh reality of what we're going through and we have to do our part because these are more frequent." pic.twitter.com/Wn7ilAdeRo— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 19, 2022
In the interest of transparency, here's Nate Burleson's response to me...
Hey, Curt you have to listen 👂🏻 didn’t say the Volcano was caused by climate change.
Mother Nature has ways of contributing to climate change, so my point is we need to do our part to take care of this planet.
I missed a few days in school but this wasn’t one of them… 📖 https://t.co/D5D5c0wUiV pic.twitter.com/rk4vsP9g4x— Nathaniel E Burleson (@nateburleson) January 19, 2022
And as I wrote back to him, here's the transcript -- there's a reason we do them for our stories at @NewsBusters! They don't lie! pic.twitter.com/yzVJoLpXyV— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 19, 2022
And, as multiple people have pointed out to me, it looks like Nate googled "volcano climate change" and used the first result on Google Images.
Ooof.
