Tom Steyer begs the question by treating fires and storms as proof of an urgent climate crisis.

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]Classic begging the question, they just treated their conclusion as fact.

[00:00:05]We have an urgent climate crisis.

[00:00:07]And it's not a question. This is not a question that is open to debate.

[00:00:16]I live in California. We have record fires.

[00:00:19]We have record numbers of storms in the Gulf.

[00:00:23]The second biggest disaster this year in America was the hurricane in Iowa, the derecho, that destroyed soybeans and corn crops.

[00:00:33]Siting fires and storms as proof of an urgent climate crisis assumes these events demonstrate the crisis [music] in the first place. The argument circularly restates the conclusion in the premise instead of providing separate evidence linking [music] the events causally to human-driven climate change or proving their urgency beyond normal variability.