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The View's Sunny Hostin is shut down by co-hosts after she says climate change caused the solar eclipse

The View host Sunny Hostin tried to claim that the total solar eclipse and earthquakes are connected to climate change

Host of The View Sunny Hostin was criticised after trying to connect yesterday's total solar eclipse and the recent earthquake in New York to climate change. Now, however, the increased amount of carbon in the atmosphere generated by human activity traps heat, leading to rising global temperatures and shrinking polar ice caps and glaciers. While the earthquake in New York cited by Hostin is not connected to climate change, gas extraction techniques like fracking have been linked to seismic events.

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