On Thursday's New Day show, CNN correspondent Anna Coren highlighted accusations by climate alarmists that the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, is partly to blame for the intensity of the current wildfires because he has not done enough to support regulations to try to curb global warming, as if were possible for government action to do so.

At 6:45 a.m. Eastern, after Coren spent most of a two-minute report recalling the plight of Australian residents in New South Wales who are having trouble finding a safe place because of the large area effected by the fires, the CNN correspondent concluded the piece by uncritically repeating claims that the prime minister had helped cause the problem:

ANNA COREN: I should mention that the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, who has been heavily criticized for his lack of leadership, for his government's inaction on climate change. Well, he was berated and heckled today at a town that was devastated by those fires on New Year's Eve. Residents there telling him that he should be ashamed of himself, that he allowed them to burn. So he is definitely feeling the pressure. People really across Australia really feel Australia's government is not doing enough to help these people.

The report seemed to be hinting that environmental regulation supported by liberal activists might have prevented the wildfires as she recalled complaints that the government "is not doing enough to help," and at no point in the report did she suggest anything else that she might have been referring to that the government was failing to do on the issue of the wildfires.

Liberal media outlets have been alarmed by the rise of conservatism in Australia. After Morrison's "stunning" win in 2019, the New York Times mockingly compared his government to the "American south."

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