Recently, the predominantly liberal panel on “The View” discussed recent occurrences of natural phenomena such as earthquakes, the solar eclipse, and cicadas periodically rising from the ground. However, host Sonny Hostin made a seemingly dubious claim about all these events, tying them into climate change.
The conversation was initiated by panelist Alyssa Farah Griffin who joked about the Friday earthquake that impacted New Jersey and New York being a sign of the second coming of Christ. Although, she did joke that the former President Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey had something to do with it.
“So, what’s kind of crazy is with the earthquake on Friday and then the eclipse today, people are having all sorts of conspiracies about the end of the world. And then I read online that the earthquake epicenter was actually at Bedminster in New Jersey. Fun fact. So it originated with Trump,” Griffin said.
I know, right? I have to say, Karen Dupiche our wonderful makeup artist, when the earthquake was happening, she put her coat on and she was, “Like, Jesus is coming. I’m out. I’m leaving. We got a solar eclipse. We got the earthquake.”
“I learned that the cicadas [mispronunciation] are coming,” she said. “Cicadas. For the first time in like 100 years, there’s two different kinds.” However, she was quickly corrected by Goldberg who informed her that the cicadas rise from the ground every seven years.
Hostin the claimed, without substantiating why, that for some reason all these events would lead one to believe that climate change is real. “All those things together, would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on,” she said.
Other co-hosts on the show pushed back against Hostin’s claims, questioning her logic. Joy Behar pushed back on Hostin wondering how earthquakes tie into climate change. “Except earthquakes are not at the mercy of climate change. It’s underground. It can’t,” Behar asked.
Hostin hit back, “How about the warming of the planet?” as if that proved her point. However, she provides no evidence as to how this could cause earthquakes and the shifting of tectonic plates below the Earth’s surface.
Golberg then chimed in, pointing out that eclipses are predictable and occur on a regular basis. “No, it happens. And the eclipse, they’ve known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen and they actually can say when these things are going to happen,” Goldberg said. She then argued about how God would not give a warning about the end of the world and the return of Christ.
“So, all these folks who are saying, “You know, it’s a sign from God,” God doesn’t give you warning. Okay? You think he gave people at the Tower of Babble warning? “Oh, I’m about to jack y’all up.” No. God does stuff and then you figure, “Oh, that’s probably because I just – uh” [pretends to die]. You know?” Goldberg said. Watch a clip of the debate below:
