{"id":313763,"date":"2017-06-21T03:59:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T02:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cnn-blames-existing-hot-deserts-on-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T03:59:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T02:59:46","slug":"cnn-blames-existing-hot-deserts-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cnn-blames-existing-hot-deserts-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Blames Existing Hot Deserts on \u201cClimate Change\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Historic geography of American Southwest now blamed on \u201cglobal warming\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kit Daniels<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>June 20, 2017<\/p>\n<p>CNN is blaming America\u2019s Mojave and Sonoran Deserts \u2013 which have existed for thousands of years \u2013 on \u201cglobal warming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/062017cnnclimatechange-e1497994797982.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"326\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-292282\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Despite the Mojave\u2019s Death Valley experiencing a record temperature of <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130104143844\/http:\/\/wmo.asu.edu\/world-highest-temperature\" target=\"_blank\">134\u00a0\u00b0F in 1913<\/a>, the network claimed the American Southwest\u2019s current \u201crecord-breaking heatwave,\u201d \u201craging wildfires\u201d and \u201cpower outages\u201d were due to \u201cman-made climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least two of those can be largely blamed on California\u2019s byzantine state government, however.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re stranded in Phoenix right now, or worried about an elderly acquaintance in California, or are without power in the Bay Area, or nervous about a wildfire taking your home, you can thank the long list of politicians who do the bidding of polluting corporations instead of their constituents and protect profit over the environment,\u201d CNN\u2019s Jill Filipovic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/06\/20\/opinions\/southwest-extreme-heat-climate-change-filipovic\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cYou can thank the President who tore up the Paris climate agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But most of those are local or state-level issues that have existed before the establishment started fueling the whole \u201cman-made climate change\u201d narrative, and all of those areas \u2013 including Phoenix \u2013 are Democratically-run.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>Remember the 2000 California electricity crisis that was largely blamed on collusion between energy companies and state politicians \u201cgaming the system?\u201d\u00a0 The scandal would likely have never been exposed if the \u201cclimate change\u201d rhetoric was as loud then as it is today.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s a good point: politicians use \u201cglobal warming\u201d as the boogeyman to hide their power grabs.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, did Trump\u2019s rejection of the Paris climate accord magically heat up the globe immediately with the stroke of his pen?<\/p>\n<p>Of course not, and in fact, if it was intended to actually stop \u201cglobal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/cnn-blames-existing-hot-deserts-on-climate-change.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic geography of American Southwest now blamed on \u201cglobal warming\u201d Kit DanielsPrison Planet.comJune 20, 2017 CNN is blaming America\u2019s Mojave and Sonoran Deserts \u2013 which have existed for thousands of years \u2013 on \u201cglobal warming.\u201d Despite the Mojave\u2019s Death Valley experiencing a record temperature of 134\u00a0\u00b0F in 1913, the network claimed the American Southwest\u2019s current 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