Scarborough: Climate Change Being Proven by Heat-Related Flight Delays
EXCERPT:
SCARBOROUGH: "By the way, I mean, it's getting harder and harder to fly this summer --"
BRZEZINSKI: "Really tough."
SCARBOROUGH: "-- because of -- of -- of the extraordinary weather crisis that is gripping the country. It's causing flights to be canceled left and right. Headline out of Las Vegas, Delta flight canceled when heat-related illnesses --"
BRZEZINSKI: "Oh my gosh!"
SCARBOROUGH: "-- hit passengers headed from Las Vegas to Atlanta, 108 degrees outside, four hours on the tarmac, and people inside the airplane suffering heat-related illnesses. It is -- again and -- and you -- you look at the storms, you look at the disasters, and if you're -- if -- if you're still denying the impact of climate change and the impact of billions and billions of Americans pumping carbon into -- into the atmosphere nonstop, China and India, especially right now, but also the United States disproportionately doing the same, you -- you're -- you're living in an alternate reality. You really are.”




