MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell and climate activist/Today show host Al Roker on Monday connected the California wildfires to “climate denial” and Obama-era regulatory rollbacks by the Trump administration. Roker definitively blamed the fires out west on climate change.

Mitchell began by sounding like an activist, singling out changes by Trump as possible reasons for the blaze: “The climate denial from the White House, which is reflected in a series of environmental changes and rollbacks from the Obama regulations has been so profound.”

After talking about the difference between forest fires and wild fires, Roker declared, “But these fires were in a sense almost urban fires that were happening because of climate change.”

This fall, NBC’s Today launched a “climate unit” for the morning show and Roker hyped the coming “crisis.” Mitchell herself is all-in on the alarmist terminology. In April, she thanked a 2020 presidential candidate for making climate change a key part of his campaign. Talking to Jay Inslee, she wondered, “What do we need to know about how America has been basically ignoring this, partly after the withdrawal from the Paris accords?”

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