Over the weekend, CNN Newsroom host Jim Acosta fanned the flames of global warming hysteria in his coverage of both the wildfires in Hawaii and Tropical Storm Hilary in California. On Saturday, he had on environmental alarmist Professor Michael Mann to link fossil fuel use to the disaster in Hawaii, and, on Sunday, Acosta wrongly claimed that it was the first time that California had experienced a tropical storm in 84 years even though there have been others in recent years and decades.

As he set up an interview with California Congresswoman Barbara Lee, the CNN host claimed: “This after the storm hit Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, and California declared a state of emergency over the arrival of its first tropical storm in 84 years.”

Congresswoman Lee was also quick to claim there was “unprecedented” weather in her state:

…we know these kind of climate events are devastating and they’re unprecedented. You look at, in my area is prone, of course, to wildfires, as you know. We have earthquakes — we have floods — we have these unprecedented tropical storms.