Seth Meyers: When it comes to climate change, Earth is the 'Donald Trump of planets'
The logic-defying presidential election is taking everyone's attention away from a very important topic — climate change — and while it's not as exciting as the medical records of a 70-year-old or the sexts of a disgraced former congressman, Seth Meyers wants us to start giving the matter the attention it deserves.
On Tuesday's Late Night, Meyers said the Earth is "acting insane," but we're all "too busy focusing on Donald Trump to notice. Meanwhile, the Earth is currently the Donald Trump of planets, and it even uses Trump's skin tone to illustrate extreme heat." Over the summer, for the first time on record, every square inch of the United States experienced above average temperatures. If that weren't bad enough, there have been eight "once in 500 years" extreme weather events since the beginning of the year. "Not to mention on top of that, the f—ing Chicago Cubs are in first place, so who knows what's going on," Meyers said.
Meyers argues that the main reason climate change is being ignored is because the GOP "essentially constructed an alternate reality in which none of these extreme weather events has anything to do with climate change." Recalling a Trump lawyer's use of the term, "Says who?" Meyers said, "'Says who?' is basically the Republican Party's official position on climate change, and this anti-intellectualism is at the core of the modern GOP and goes all the way to the presidential ticket." Cue a long clip of Trump preaching about his favorite kind of hairspray to coal miners, and an interview that Meyers says proves Trump has "no idea what he's talking about." Watch the video below. Catherine Garcia
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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