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NJ SENATE CANDIDATE SLAMMED FOR BLAMING CLIMATE CHANGE FOR EARTHQUAKE THAT
ROCKED NYC METRO AREA

By Katherine Donlevy

Published April 6, 2024, 7:20 p.m. ET

A candidate running for Senate in New Jersey was ruthlessly goaded on social
media after claiming the “climate crisis” was to blame for the Friday earthquake
that rocked the tri-state area.

Green Party member Christina Amira Khalil shared the controversial message just
minutes after the quake, which was the strongest temblor to strike near the Big
Apple in 140 years.

“I experienced my first earthquake in NJ. We never get earthquakes. The climate
crisis is real. The weirdest experience ever,” Khalil wrote on X.

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Christina Amira Khalil, a Green Party candidate for New Jersey’s US Senate seat,
claimed on X that climate change was to blame for the earthquake.
X/@Christina4NJ

The post was only up for a few hours before the congressional hopeful deleted it
— but not before it garnered millions of views and an X “Community Note”
fact-checking her claims.

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Dozens of other high-profile politicians and commentators shared Khalil’s tweet,
mocking the politician for linking movement in the earth’s crust to climate
change in the atmosphere.

“Holy crap I was just joking about people blaming climate change and then this
genius pops up. A Senate candidate no less!” Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw of
Texas wrote in response to the since-deleted tweet.

“Senate candidate Christina Amira Khalil just said that ‘climate crisis’ caused
today’s earthquake in New Jersey. Climate doesn’t cause earthquakes — they’re
caused by tectonic plates shifting. This woman is a moron,” said Conservative
commentator Paul Szypula.

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Khalil deleted the tweet after receiving an onslaught of mocking responses.
Ballotopedia

Kyle Mann, the editor-in-chief of satirical outlet The Babylon Bee, piled on,
writing: “Gonna have a call with my Babylon Bee writers to figure out how we
failed to come up with ‘the earthquake was caused by climate change’ before the
libs did.”

Khalil — who is running to take over embattled Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez’s
seat — has since replaced her controversial tweet with one simply detailing her
shock at experiencing the rare earthquake in New Jersey.

“My entire life in NJ, I have never experienced anything like this,” she wrote.

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According to NASA, there is no link between climate change and earthquakes,
which are simply caused by tectonic plates colliding into one another below
Earth’s surface.

“We know that most earthquakes occur far beneath Earth’s surface, well beyond
the influence of surface temperatures and conditions,” Alan Buis of NASA’s Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, said in 2019.

“We know the statistical distribution of earthquakes is approximately equal
across all types of weather conditions. Myth busted.”

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Friday’s earthquake was the strongest temblor to strike near the Big Apple in
140 years. AP

Khalil wasn’t the only politician to catch heat over baseless claims regarding
the earthquake.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) blamed the tremors on America’s
declining morality — stating it was a warning sent by the heavens.

What do you think? Post a comment.

“God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and
eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens,” Greene
wrote.

The conservative’s post was accompanied by an X “Community Note” pointing out
that there are about 1700 earthquakes in the US every year and that solar
eclipses occur approximately every 18 months.

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