William Shatner Uses The Eclipse As An Excuse To Push Climate Agenda

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Original Star Trek star William Shatner used Monday’s solar eclipse as a springboard to plug climate change activism.

The 93-year-old actor appeared on NBC News NOW’s coverage of the total solar eclipse, which won’t occur again in the United States until 2044.

Correspondent Maura Barrett said that Shatner “made a climate connection” that she believed was “important to point out” during their pre-recorded chat.

“I asked him about people that are concerned, you know, shouldn’t we be focused on tackling climate here on Earth rather than going out and exploring space?” Barrett reported.

“And he said, you know, we can do both. Here is some of our conversation,” she said prior to cutting to their conversation at and hour and fifty-three minutes until the total eclipse occurred.

“Well, you can do both. I mean, there’s a — but you have to have a focus on the most important part, which is staying alive,” the original Captain Kirk actor remarked.

“I mean, what’s the point of going into space, you can’t come back and you are overcome by the fumes.”

“No — we are in a dire situation,” he added. “We’ve got to do both. We’ve got to clean up the environment and our curiosity and our ambition.”

When Barrett went live again, she said that Shatner’s climate change hot take was “something to think about.”

The rare celestial event, which was tied to everything from Americans experiencing “weird feelings” and insomnia, to zoo animals displaying “nighttime behavior,” was also attributed to climate change by “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin.

During Monday’s episode of the ABC morning talk show, Hostin claimed that the eclipse, the 4.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked New York and New Jersey on Friday, and the upcoming cicada invasion were due to climate change.

“All those things together would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists or something is really going on,” Hostin stated.

She also told fellow panelists Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar that when the earthquake hit their studio, her makeup artist “ran down the hallway” shrieking that “the rapture is here.”

Both Behar and Goldberg shut down her theory. “Except earthquakes are not at the mercy of climate change. It’s underground. It can’t,” Behar retorted.

“How about the warming of the planet?” Hostin questioned.

“No, it happens,” Goldberg remarked. “And the eclipse, they’ve known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen, and they actually can say when these things are going to happen.”

Hostin tried to pivot to periodical cicadas, which are set to emerge from the ground in the Midwest by the trillions for the first time in hundreds of years in what has been dubbed “cicada-geddon.”

But Goldberg pointed out that the cicadas, which Hostin couldn’t even pronounce correctly, erupt from the Earth on a 13- and 17-year cycle, which just happened to coincide for the first time since Thomas Jefferson  was in the White House in 1803.

Hostin wasn’t the only one with a bizarre take on the rare earthquake and eclipse, U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) stunned her followers with foreboding biblical warning.

“God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens,” she tweeted on Friday.

The post prompted readers to add context that the “eclipse was predicted hundreds of years ago,” and “earthquakes occur naturally” typically over 30 times a day worldwide.

Greene responded on Sunday with a scathing tweet that referred to Bible passage Luke 12:54-56, which reads:

 He said to the crowd: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, ‘It’s going to rain,’ and it does. And when the south wind blows, you say, ‘It’s going to be hot,’ and it is. Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?

“Many have mocked and scoffed at this post and even put community notes,” the Congresswoman posted.

“Yes eclipses are predictable and earthquakes happen and we know when comets are passing by, however God created all of these things and uses them to be signs for those of us who believe.”

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