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In the middle of one of the biggest natural disasters in the history of the United States, MSNBC’s questionable anchor Katy Tur couldn’t help but push the climate change agenda. Tur was interviewing Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards (D) on Tuesday when she made multiple dubious claims about climate science designed to stoke the fears of viewers.
Tur’s first assertion was that we should probably do away with the term “hurricane season.” “Governor, we're just in August. Hurricane season-- if you want to say there is a hurricane season any longer cause we see these things in all seasons-- lasts for a couple more months,” she told Edwards.
But that’s not entirely accurate according to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. According to the climate monitoring organization’s own data, it’s natural for some storms to occur outside of hurricane season, which lasts from June 1 to November 30. But they happen rarely with 97 percent occurring during the “season,” which notably lasts for the seasons of summer and the fall.
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