The following article by Desai Martin was posted on the ShareBlue.com website September 7, 2018:
On a campaign-funded podcast, Rep. Devin Nunes interviewed an anti-science historian who denies climate change played a role in the devastating California wildfires.
Voters in Republican Rep. Devin Nunes’ California district haven’t seen much of their congressman lately. He’s been keeping a low profile, dodging scandals and anger from his constituents that he’s more focused on protecting Trump than addressing their needs.
Plus he’s been recording an “official podcast,” funded by his campaign. And he is using that platform to promote an anti-science, climate change-denying historian to explain the causes of the California wildfires.
On his latest episode, Nunes asks Dr. Bruce Thorton, introduced as a “classicist historian,” if it is global warming or something else that is causing the problems with so many fires in California.