'The View' co-host Sunny Hostin appeared to blame the recent earthquake and Monday's solar eclipse on "climate change." 

In Monday's episode of the progressive talk show, Hostin's fellow co-host and faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin began by discussing last week's earthquake in New York and New Jersey. 

“So, what’s kind of crazy is with the earthquake on Friday and then the eclipse today, people are having all sorts of conspiracies about the end of the world. And then I read online that the earthquake epicenter was actually at Bedminster in New Jersey,” she said, referring to where Trump has one of his golf courses. "Fun fact. So it originated with Trump.”

Sunny Hostin suggests that the solar eclipse, the earthquake, and the fact that cicadas are coming are a sign of climate change. pic.twitter.com/iKJJzS1QQ7

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The host then debated the frequency of cicadas with fellow panelists Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, leading Hostin to conclude climate change or “something” is causing these natural phenomena:

HOSTIN: The rapture is here. And then also, I learned that the cicadas [mispronunciation] are coming.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Cicadas.

HOSTIN: Cicadas. For the first time in like 100 years, there’s two different kinds –

GOLDBERG: No. No. No. No. No. No, No. No. That’s not – No. No.

HOSTIN: Well, that is what I read. Two different kind of --

GOLDBERG: There's two different kinds of cicadas coming.

HOSTIN: Yeah, two different times are coming.

BEHAR: The good cicadas and the bad cicadas.

GOLDBERG: No.

HOSTIN: This is for the first time in many, many years.

GOLDBERG: No. Every 17 years this happens.

HOSTIN: Well, that's not what I read, but maybe, you know, maybe you know better.

GOLDBERG: But either way --

HOSTIN: All those things together, would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on.

BEHAR: That’s more on point.

FARAH GRIFFIN: Or Jesus is returning.

BEHAR: Except earthquakes are not at the mercy of climate change. It's underground. It can’t.

HOSTIN: How about the warming of the planet?

GOLDBERG: No, it happens. And the eclipse, they've known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen and they actually can say when these things are going to happen.

Solar eclipses occur when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, blocking all or part of the Sun's light and creating a temporary period of darkness during what would usually be daylight.

Earthquakes, meanwhile, are caused by the movement of the earth's tectonic plates, resulting in seismic waves that cause the ground to shake. Both these phenomena have occurred for millions of years and have no connection to so-called climate change whatsoever. 

Here's how the Manhattan skyline looked from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. during today's eclipse pic.twitter.com/16CEjYXqBs

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Fortunately for Hostin, she is not alone in embarrassing herself when discussing these basic scientific issues. Just last week, Christina Amira Khali, a Green Party candidate for Senator of New Jersey, similarly attributed the earthquake to climate change, insisting that such occurrences "never" happen. 

"I experienced my first earthquake in NJ," she wrote in a now-deleted post. "We never get earthquakes. The climate crisis is real. The weirdest experience ever."