President Barack Obama spoke to reporters on Wednesday afternoon on the Paris climate change agreement and, almost on cue, NBC’s Ron Allen connected global warming to Hurricane Matthew set to bear down on the Bahamas, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.

Speaking on MSNBC Live to host Kate Snow, Allen first gushed about how the President “believes so deeply in protecting the environment” that the deal marks “one of the most significant aspects of his legacy” before bringing in Hurricane Matthew as a intriguing “practical matter.” It was "what the president was talking about as the threat that the planet faces and this is what this whole climate agreement signed by 190 nations and now ratified by 60 or so is designed to stop."

In making the following comments, Allen failed to realize that there hasn’t been a major Atlantic Hurricane to crack the top ten in intensity in nine years and if it comes ashore, Matthew would be the first major hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. since Hurricane Wilma in 2005:

[I]t’s very interesting that this is happening a day when there’s a hurricane bearing down on the United States and in the Caribbean because these severe storms, beach erosions, intense weather episodes that we’ve had are perhaps the most practical example of what the president was talking about as the threat that the planet faces[.]

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Allen further made his comments seem even more out-of-touch with the reality of the issue concerning broad and long-term trends in our climate when he ruled that hurricanes like Matthew “is what this whole climate agreement signed by 190 nations and now ratified by 60 or so is designed to stop.”

After explaining that the only true mechanism to enforce the deal will be “peer pressure,” Allen reiterated what “a huge milestone” the deal has been to the President before concluding with another nod somehow linking the deal to Matthew:

That’s how important this is to the President of the United States and again, a huge milestone but a lot of variables, a lot of hurdles yet before it actually happens and before, in fact, the commitments carried out. But for now, a huge agreement, a huge milestone, again, on an important day when a hurricane is bearing down in United States.

The NBC News correspondent also didn’t let the segment go to waste without lamenting how Donald Trump would most likely ignore the deal to highlight the stakes of the election:

Yes, a lot is at stakes at this election, this is one other huge thing that's at stake and that's why the President is been pushing so strongly for Hillary Clinton to follow him into office because she supports this, she believes in this and clearly Donald Trump and the Republicans do not.

The relevant portions of the transcript from MSNBC Live with Kate Snow on October 5 can be found below.