Just weeks after the uproar over her bonkers comments about IVF, The View cohost Sunny Hostin is once again in hot water after seemingly attempting to draw a connection between last week's New York earthquake, this week's solar eclipse, and this summer's cicadas.
What do they all have in common? According to Hostin, the common thread was climate change.
The gaffe happened during the show's daily "Hot Topics" section in which the cohosts discuss current events.
The convo began with cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin mentioning the number of conspiracy theories about the solar eclipse and last week's 4.8 earthquake propagated by online crackpots and religious zealots certain the events spelled the end of the world.
Hostin added that one of the show's makeup artists fled the building after the earthquake, convinced it meant that "Jesus is coming."
She then referenced the upcoming cicada-pocalypse, in which two broods of the insects, which remain underground for more than a decade before coming up to mate, will end their respective 13-year and 17-year dormant periods by emerging concurrently, which rarely happens.
Hostin said the three events all in a row seemed ominous.
“I will say, all those things together would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on."
Cohost Joy Behar quickly chimed in to point out that earthquakes are not "at the mercy of climate change," since they have nothing to do with weather at all but rather plate tectonics.
Hostin could then be heard saying to Behar, "what about the warming of the planet," but that has nothing to do with... well, any of these phenomena.
Moderator Whoopi Goldberg then explained that eclipses are predicted years in advance; they can actually be predicted as far as 10,000 years into the future, in fact, due to their geometric and mathematical nature.
Goldberg also explained how cicadas' years-long life cycles work before pooh-poohing the idea that God would send signals via natural events, saying "God doesn't give warnings."
On social media, Hostin got plenty of mockery and pushback from viewers.
We look forward to whatever wild thing Hostin says next.
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