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Hosts on The View Link Solar Eclipse to Climate Change

Climate change is one of the latest topics the some on the left like to get hysterical about these days.

Warming temperatures, cooling temperatures, changes in wind patterns, famine, disease, and anything in between is, according to many on the left, a result of human beings ruining the planet.

If grocery prices go up, it’s because of climate change. Came down with something during flu season? Climate change is probably to blame. Feeling blue? Should have recycled more.

Nothing is off-limits.

And just when you think there’s nothing else people could possibly attribute to climate change, someone pulls a rabbit out of a hat.

That’s right, according to some hosts of The View, the solar eclipse might be caused by climate change.

After fumbling the pronunciation of “cicada,” Sunny Hostin went on to question whether or not earthquakes were caused by climate change.

What are they going to blame on climate change next over at The View?

This would be laughable were it not for the fact that the hosts of The View consistently make ludicrous claims that bear no resemblance to reality.

It’s par for the course on The View.

For those curious about how solar eclipses do occur, Popular Science published an article explaining it recently. Here’s an excerpt:

If you could float above the Earth’s North Pole and see the Moon’s orbit from above, you would see the Moon line up with the Sun once every time it orbits around the Earth, which is approximately once per month. From this high point of view, it looks like the Moon’s shadow should land on Earth every orbit.

However, if you could shift your perspective to look at the Moon’s orbit from the orbital plane, you would see that the Moon’s orbit is tilted by about 5 degrees compared with Earth’s orbit around the Sun. This tilt means that sometimes the Moon is too high and its shadow passes above the Earth, and sometimes the Moon is too low and its shadow passes below the Earth. An eclipse happens only when the Moon is positioned just right and its shadow lands on the Earth.

As time goes on, the Earth and the Moon continue spinning, and eventually the Moon aligns with Earth’s orbit around the Sun at the same moment the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth.

While only certain cities are in the path of totality for this April’s eclipse, the entire U.S. is still close enough to this path that observers outside of the path of totality will see a partial eclipse. In those locations, the Moon will appear to pass in front of part of the Sun, leaving a crescent shape of the Sun still visible at the moment of maximum eclipse.


 

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