Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Friday night that an explosion at a Philadelphia oil refinery was due to climate change, arguing that the incident underscores the urgency of her Green New Deal.
A vat of butane ignited and eventually exploded around 4:00 AM Friday at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex, followed by a series of smaller explosions as the fire worked its way through a mass of pipes carrying fuel across the complex.
The blast, which injured five workers, was eventually brought under control thanks to the intervention of more than 120 Philadelphia firefighters employing 51 pieces of equipment.
In a tweet later Friday, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez shared a video of the burning refinery, suggesting that the blaze was somehow caused by climate change.
“This was Philadelphia after an oil refinery exploded this morning,” she said. “So… what’s that about how climate change isn’t an existential crisis that will disproportionately impact working class people & burn its way up?”
“We need a solution on the scale of the crisis: #GreenNewDeal,” she wrote.
This was Philadelphia after an oil refinery exploded this morning.
So… what’s that about how climate change isn’t an existential crisis that will disproportionately impact working class people & burn its way up?
We need a solution on the scale of the crisis: #GreenNewDeal https://t.co/5vNMrrUZBg
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 22, 2019
While climate scientists have argued that it is reckless to attribute a specific weather event to climate change, such a precise attribution would seem to border on the impossible in the case of an incident in an oil refinery.
Which may just convince AOC’s diehard fans that she can, indeed, do the impossible.
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Why not blame climate change on AOC hot air .
Earth is going to end in under 12 years don’t you know ?
Ask anyone who has worked night shift, when do things go wrong? Global warming doesn’t exist and it wasn’t in Philadelphia when the butane went up. Solid alibi.
PS . Butane is lighter fluid.
Would someone please call for the guys with the straight jackets to come and take her to a padded cell these loose nut is sounding even more rediculous then ever
Climate alarmism has reached an unprecedented level of stupidity..
Ah, AOC. The gift that keeps on giving. How else could you convince common-sense folk that the Climate hysteria is a scam. Get folks like AOC to talk about it, that’s how.
Just when you think she’s hit rock bottom on stupidity she comes up with this crap! And the they wonder why the public isn’t buying the “Climate Change Hysteria” here’s one more example why.