"Since ratifying the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997, through last Friday, the United States destroyed over 30,000 metric tons of declared chemical agent contained in nearly three and a half million chemical munitions, over 22,500,110, one-ton containers containing chemical agent, and over 55,500 bottles and containers containing chemical agent," said Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Kingston Reif.
"We have just learned that a formal lab has confirmed the suspicion that that white powdery substance found in the West Wing on Sunday was in fact positive for cocaine," MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell reported on Wednesday.
The report suggests that the mainstream media's attribution of such natural disasters to climate change could lead to a misdirection of resources from the true causes of wildfires.