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CNN Anchor Asks With a Straight Face If Global Warming Is to Blame for Asteroid

Feb. 10, 2013 11:57am Becket Adams

“A 150-foot-wide asteroid will come remarkably close to Earth next week, even closer than high-flying communication and weather satellites,” The Associated Press reported earlier this week. “It will be the nearest known flyby for an object of this size.”

And for those of you who want to know more about this floating “megarock,” dubbed “2012 DA14,” CNN’s Deb Feyerick has got you covered. Indeed, she was there on Saturday to ask the tough questions: Did global warming cause this asteroid?

Yup.

“Every time we see a storm like this lately, the first question to pop into a lot of people’s minds is whether or not global warming is to blame?” Feyerick said, referring to snowstorm Nemo.

“I’ll talk to Bill Nye, ‘the science guy,’ about devastating storms and climate change,” she added.

After going to a quick commercial break, the CNN anchor jumped right into discussing climate change and “2012 DA14″ with Nye: “Talk about something else that’s falling from the sky and that is an asteroid. What’s coming our way? Is this an effect of, perhaps, of global warming or is this just some meteoric occasion?”

Oddly enough, Nye — who has made it his mission to challenge what calls scientifically inaccurate claims — didn’t see fit to inform Feyerick that the asteroid has been around for a lot longer than carbon-emitting SUVs and jets.

Maybe he was at a loss for word.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, scientists say the rock “will be at least 17,100 miles away when it zips past next Friday,” the AP notes. So no need to worry.

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Comments (237)

Flag Raiser
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 4:26pm
What an idiot!!!!!

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Dkoonz
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 4:00pm
Is global warming responsible for making her a idiot or was she born that way.

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willym45
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 3:57pm
A liberals dream story, if there is a possibility,then its fact,or it has to be true. Liberals ruin everything they touch. They divide countries, they dont know how to manage money. They dont know how to have integrity in anything they do, and expect and think we have to look at them as important.

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Gator_222
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 3:49pm
In Deb Feyerick’s defense she is representative of a group (media) that is so damn ignorant that if you placed them next to a globe and asked them to locate the earth for you … Most would spin the thing with a look of confusion on their faces … We are what we teach

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Dano9375
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 3:43pm
The ignorance is UNBELIEVABLE. Does CNN hire their news people right off the street? A CNN anchor that stupid is proof that CNN can not viewed as a legitimate news organization. She was serious and to have someone that ignorant telling America what is going on anywhere about anything is very telling of CNN. They have no idea what they are talking about!

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hugo65hsv
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 3:43pm
Leave it to a liberal newscaster to use the words asteroid and global warming in the same context.. What I heard from that was “I’m a dumb liberal who works for the liberal media and I voted for Obama..

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Cosmos102
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 3:42pm
The members of the MSM are all a bunch of trained dogs.

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carbonated
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 3:36pm
No, it’s George Bush’s fault.

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thereyougoagain
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 3:31pm
But wait; we did not get the Bill’s reply—– “yep!”

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DIgnified
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 3:30pm
Right up there with sunny Germany. Bunch of idiot Republicans. Keep on attacking Americans and hugging the stinking Israeli Jews who think you their slaves. Wake up.

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- wantsfreedom
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 4:39pm
  you are still DUMB
  
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Joyzee
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 3:29pm
Its your summer’s eve products with that **** Dye that’s causing Warming of your green frontal Lobe

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RestoreCapitalism
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 3:22pm
Of course global warming caused the snow in the northeast. We just need Al Gore to explain it for us. Perhaps it would have been tractor-trailer sized hail, but the darned global warming melted it into just lousy old snow. As for the meteorite, you see the Earth’s fever attracts meteorites with it’s tremendous heat. The sun isn’t hot enough to attract them, just the earth. Maybe if the earth would just cool it, we wouldn’t have those solar flares either.

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judydeaton
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 3:19pm
Either global warming or Bush, take your pick of which one to blame it on! (Sarcasm)

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 3:11pm
Well, if you ever wondered what audience CNN was catering to, now you know? Those who either forgot high school, or never made it that far?

To consider that that leaders of the United States, may actually depend on CNN for their decisions, should be disturbing?

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bobbknight
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 3:06pm
My hope is that she is reading the text on the teleprompter only and is not that ignorant.

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Lucius Severus Pertinax
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 2:56pm
I have a Hundred Dollars that says my CAT could beat Deb Feyerick at checkers!

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hades3
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 2:54pm
Graduate of our Marxist public school system. There are ignorant people, uninformed people
and stupid. It must be terrible being all three in one.

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hades3
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 2:50pm
And I thought space was large and vastly empty. It no doubt is, but not as empty as the space between her ears.

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Bohump
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 2:48pm
I think Al Gore must be behind this ! …. He Will find someway to make $$$$$ out of it .

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hades3
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 2:47pm
I had always wondered just how stupid someone had too be to qualify as a CNN anchor. I believe she has led me too the answer.

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christos
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 2:34pm
Why would anyone believe there is actually an asteroid,who would believe anything any of these people say.If there is an actual asteroid it is +JESUS+GOD+ throwing it at them.CREEPS

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thx1138v2
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 2:28pm
Well, of course global warming causes asteroids to be attracted to the earth. Space is really, really cold and the asteroid has been out there for a long time. Everyone knows opposites attract. So the very cold asteroid is attracted to our planet.

So the key to avoiding another disaster like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs is to cool the earth off so the asteroid is attracted to someplace warmer.

Those smarty pants in New York figured it out. That’s why they made it so cold there with this snow storm – so the asteroid would be attracted to the south.

I’m safe though, because I have my air conditioning running full blast.

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Rickfromillinois
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 2:26pm
To paraphrase Mr. Bugs Bunny, “What a maroon!”.

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RedDirtTexas
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 2:17pm
And Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee (D) Houston, Tx. Member of the House Ways and Means Committee is again asking NASA if we’ll be able to see the American flag placed there by our astronauts! SHEEEESH!!!! Talk about lipstick on a pig….

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Grand design
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 2:13pm
This is normal for CNN employees!

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