Weatherman makes misleading climate claims on volcanoes, trees, floods
In a video viewed hundreds of thousands of times on social media, a meteorologist falsely claims that underwater volcanoes, not carbon dioxide, are causing global warming, and that the United States has enough trees to absorb all its emissions of the gas. Scientists say that even though an unusual eruption in Tonga in 2022 may have had a small temporary heating effect, the impact of humans burning fossil fuels is the greatest driver of climate change -- and US forests absorb only a fraction of t