Memo to Fox News: If you want to discredit FEMA’s policy requiring climate change plans from states asking for disaster relief, you might want to find a guest other than the world’s most discredited former FEMA head.
The guest, Michael Brown, of Hurricane Katrina infamy, acknowledged climate change, but said “I doubt whether man has much impact on that.” Besides's Brown’s lack FEMA disgrace, he has even less cred in climate science – i.e. none.
However, Brown opined freely on the subject. He also made such comments as, “This just puts an additional burden on the states to somehow now start rewording things just to appease the federal bureaucrats.” He said the Obama administration will “force down the states’ throats” a “de facto climate change policy.”
He called it “an Orwellian purpose,” and complained about the “heavy-handed force of the federal government saying, ‘If you want some money from us, then you have to use this wording to appease us.’”
Host Neil Cavuto seemed to think Brown was the real deal. Cavuto asked if the upcoming hurricane season could be a “climate-change type issue or just sort of luck of the draw?”
Brown reiterated, “The climate is constantly changing and evolving.” He further opined, “Are we getting back into a more active period? Could be. Is that because you and I drive SUVs? No. It’s because Mother Nature does what Mother Nature does based on the sun, based on all these other external factors.”
Cavuto gave him the stamp of approval: “You still make so much sense,” Cavuto enthused. “I said it before, Folks. There’s a guy who had a bum rap during Katrina. That’s my view. I think history has borne me out, and him.”
Real climatologists think humans are almost certainly causing climate change. But why listen to them when you’ve got Heckuva Job Brownie?
Watch it below, from the May 6, Your World, via Media Matters.