Farewell Tucker Carlson, climate change denier whose claims never stacked up

The former Fox News host liked to dredge up a laundry list of alleged errors by scientists in an effort to erode public trust

As appears to be almost compulsory for high-profile, rightwing television presenters, Fox News’ recently departed primetime host Tucker Carlson is a climate science denier.

Carlson would preach regularly to his nightly audience of more than 3 million viewers about how concerns over climate change were like a religion, and that “the entire theory [of human-caused climate] is absurd.”