“.....the researchers now say the act was done out of desperation in response to a disastrous climatic event: El Niño.?”
Sounds to me as though Environmental Whackoism is not new.
We must eliminate words from our language such as “Global Warming”, “farting cows”, and “fossil fuels”. Then the E.W’s can’t use those words ever again to leverage power over the World. Yeah, That’s the ticket!
Winning.
And the fuels naturally seep into the environment. If we didn't collect and use it, we'd still have to clean it up.