By Kendall Tietz, Gabriel Hays, Fox News
Sunny Hostin, a host on “The View,” said that climate change is to blame for Monday’s solar eclipse, Friday’s earthquake, and the upcoming cicada breeding season. She suggested that all these events happening together might make someone think that climate change is real or that something serious is happening with the environment.
On Friday, there was a 4.8-magnitude earthquake that people felt in New York and New Jersey. Then on Monday, there was a solar eclipse that many people were excited about, and it happened across the whole United States. Hostin also said that during the earthquake, her makeup artist in the studio got scared and quickly left, saying things like “Jesus is coming” and “The rapture is here.”
But Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, who are also hosts on the show, disagreed with her idea.
“Earthquakes happen underground and aren’t caused by climate change,” Behar said.
Hostin replied, “But what about the warming of the planet?”
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin blamed Monday’s solar eclipse, Friday’s earthquake and the expected cicada breeding season on “climate change.”
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The highly anticipated solar eclipse swept across the continental U.S. on Monday, April 8th.
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“No, earthquakes happen,” Goldberg said. “And we knew about the eclipse because scientists can predict when they will happen.”
Hostin mentioned how it was unusual for two groups of cicadas to come out for mating at the same time after 100 years, but Goldberg disagreed, saying it happens every 17 years.
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin made a joke saying that Trump caused the earthquake. She said, “I read online that the earthquake started at Bedminster in New Jersey… Fun fact. So, it came from Trump.”
A 4.8-magnitude earthquake was felt across New York and New Jersey on Friday.
Hostin pointed out that two different types of cicadas will be emerging for their mating seasons at the same time, but Whoopi Goldberg promptly shut her down, arguing it happens every 17 years.
Joy Behar pushed back, saying: “Except earthquakes are not at the mercy of climate change. It’s underground. It can’t.”
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Other people have gotten criticism for saying similar things, like Christina Amira Khalil, who is a member of the Green Party and is running for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey. She got a lot of attention online when she posted on social media suggesting that the earthquake in New York and New Jersey on Friday was because of climate change.
She wrote, “I felt my first earthquake in NJ. We never get earthquakes. The climate crisis is real. It was the weirdest experience ever.”
The post was widely mocked and received an X “Community Note” fact check providing more context.
Khalil eventually deleted the post and switched her account to “protected” mode so that the public couldn’t view her posts any longer.
