Keegan-Michael Key gives an apocalyptic weather 'forecast' in anti-Trump ad

"I guess these days climate change isn't a hoax."
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Keegan-Michael Key gives an apocalyptic weather 'forecast' in anti-Trump ad
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A new anti-Trump ad starring comedian Keegan-Michael Key takes aim at the Republican presidential candidate's climate-denying ways.

As Weatherman Frank, Key delivers a grim forecast for the United States ahead of the January 2017 inauguration of a future President Donald Trump.

"Heavy stuff, Frank. I guess these days climate change isn't a hoax," the anchor, named Jim, replies. "Only morons think that, Jim," Frank cackles.

"But you know what? It's not all bad news," the weatherman assures viewers. "The rise in both temperature and existential misery will be cooled by the nuclear winter coming in from the Southeast."

Save the Day, director Joss Whedon's pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC, paid for the ad.

Trump has called human-caused climate change a "hoax" and claimed that "the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."

The GOP candidate's energy plan calls for producing more oil, coal and natural gas while erasing U.S. environmental regulations.

Clinton, the Democratic candidate, has pledged to build on the Obama administration's climate change policy and transform the United States into "the world’s clean energy superpower."

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Maria Gallucci

Maria Gallucci was a Science Reporter at Mashable. She was previously the energy and environment reporter at International Business Times; features editor of Makeshift magazine; clean economy reporter for InsideClimate News; and a correspondent in Mexico City until 2011. Maria holds degrees in journalism and Spanish from Ohio University's Honors Tutorial College.


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