George Takei Brilliantly Responds To Ann Coulter’s Climate Change Denial Theories (TWEETS)

The devastating flooding in Texas following the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey has brought forth some questions about what role global climate change may have played. But conservative pundit Ann Coulter is still peddling the errant beliefs that climate change isn’t real.

In a tweet made Tuesday morning in response to the possibility that climate change may have contributed to the third once-in-500-years flood that Texas has faced in as many years, Coulter stated that a biblical interpretation of the flood would be more credible than global warming. She even inserted the dated idea that an elected official’s sexual orientation could have angered God — and although Coulter said it’s an idea she doesn’t believe personally, she did say it was more believable than climate change was, in her opinion.

But if we’re to go by biblical accounts over climate science, a flood to punish humanity still doesn’t make sense. According to the Bible, God promised Noah that he would “never again” send a flood to destroy humanity.

Nevertheless, Coulter is trying to appeal to Old Testament beliefs and sentiments that this flood may have been a warning sign from God — or at the very least, that this scenario makes more sense than what climate scientists have been warning us for decades.

Coulter’s denial of climate change was addressed by thousands of Twitter users, including George Takei, who decided to respond to Coulter in a humorous way.

Takei uses Coulter’s own words against her, suggesting that Harvey is just as likely a punishment for electing “an idiot president” like Donald Trump. Takei, who is gay himself, implies that Coulter’s credibility about what does or does not cause massive hurricanes like Harvey to occur is on a thin foundation.

Indeed, climate scientists are suggesting that storms like Harvey will become commonplace in the years ahead, in large part due to climate change. “This is the kind of thing we are going to get more of,” and Harvey should “serve as a warning,” says climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer.

The science on climate change is overwhelmingly in favor of it being real, and what’s more than that, that it is man-made. Coulter does no one any favors by obscuring that fact, least of all those who are set to be hit by these increasingly huge super-storms in the decades ahead.

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