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ABC, NBC Claim Link between Iowa Floods and Global Warming
businessandmedia.org ^ | June 20, 2008 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 06/21/2008 4:11:56 PM PDT by Rufus2007

It was only a matter of time until the mainstream media began ramping up global warming alarmism by connecting flooding in the Midwest to climate change.

ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” took a page out of the alarmists’ playbook – connecting natural disasters to global warming, which according to the broadcast is caused by mankind’s use of fossil fuels. The segment, which led off the network’s June 19 broadcast, cited a government report that stated there’s definitive evidence such a link exists.

“[T]oday, the administration report draws a clear link between this destructive and severe weather and the fossil fuels we burn to light our homes and power our cars,” ABC correspondent Barbara Pinto said from a flood-soaked Burlington, Iowa.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: abc; agw; climatechange; environment; flooding; globalwarming; idiotsinmedia; nbc; patrickmichaels; propagandawingofdnc; yellowjournalism
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I knew there'd be people to blame this disaster on global warming, but I expected it to be fringe elements, not the so-called mainstream media.

The fact is - it takes cold air and hot air to create these storms, so I suppose we could blame global cooling just as much based on this philosophy.

1 posted on 06/21/2008 4:11:57 PM PDT by Rufus2007
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Dumb asses.


2 posted on 06/21/2008 4:12:34 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Wanted: A Presidential Candidate I can vote FOR...)
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3 posted on 06/21/2008 4:13:14 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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Just pathetic.


4 posted on 06/21/2008 4:15:55 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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Also, the "crack in the Earth" that forms the main channel for the Mississippi is about 17 miles deep.

Not all that many 17 mile deep "cracks" in the middle of a continent, but somehow this eludes the notice of the MSM "newsies". Didn't they think, perhaps, there'd been a whole lotta' floodin' goin' on?

5 posted on 06/21/2008 4:16:17 PM PDT by muawiyah (We need a "Gastank For America" to win back Congress)
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6 posted on 06/21/2008 4:16:32 PM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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Did they consult with world renowned climate expert, Thomas Chalko?
7 posted on 06/21/2008 4:16:47 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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ABC, NBC Claim Link between Iowa Floods and Global Warming

I'll see their supposition...
and raise them by noting that this current rain dumping hasn't been
as bad as the 1993 flooding, as regards the Missouri and Mississippi.

Thus, global warming must be on the wane!
(/sarc)
8 posted on 06/21/2008 4:16:58 PM PDT by VOA
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You know why they call these hundred year floods???? Because you can expect one every hundred years. And this was expected before any globull baloney alarmism.


9 posted on 06/21/2008 4:18:09 PM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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ABC, NBC Claim Link between Iowa Floods and Global Warming

Is anyone surprised?

10 posted on 06/21/2008 4:22:15 PM PDT by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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All winter people bitched about the cold and continuous snow storms. That snow fall has to go somewhere in the Spring. Record snow falls result in record flooding. The exception is when we head into an ice age. Ice age snow fall collects as glaciers. Be very worried if we don't have flooding in the Spring after record winter snowfall.
11 posted on 06/21/2008 4:23:44 PM PDT by Myrddin
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Gosh, I wonder why there’s those levies and stuff along the river there... Could it be because they are used every once in a while, and not just there to block the ‘lovely view’ of the Mississippi, Red, etc rivers?


12 posted on 06/21/2008 4:23:47 PM PDT by kingu (Party for rent - conservative opinions not required.)
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Global Warming Causing Flooding of Mainstream Intelligence

Media I.Q.'s down 46%.


13 posted on 06/21/2008 4:32:20 PM PDT by taraytarah
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To: Rufus2007; xcamel; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The alphabet station’s typical viewers are sheeple, and they all vote democrat!


14 posted on 06/21/2008 4:32:41 PM PDT by PROCON (No more politics, I promise!)
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I read a few years back that global warming stole some innocent Freeper’s ham sandwich.


15 posted on 06/21/2008 4:38:47 PM PDT by allmost
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Weegee claims a link between the MSM and DNC colluding on news stories.


16 posted on 06/21/2008 4:39:07 PM PDT by weegee (In 1988 Lenora Fulani was the 1st black woman to appear on presidential ballots in all 50 states)
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"ABC, NBC Claim Link between Iowa Floods and Global Warming"

Well of course! A bunch of liberal arts majors with journalism degrees trumps the SCIENTIFIC METHOD every time!

Science is for nerds... irrational baseless hysteria is for the masses!

Have they gotten a photo of a black person on a roof so that they can roll out their mantra of "Bush hates black people!"

For non bias reporting, the one trusted source is Katie Couric of the Pravda Network.

17 posted on 06/21/2008 4:53:58 PM PDT by avacado
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but I expected it to be fringe elements, not the so-called mainstream media.

I detect a possible redundancy here.

18 posted on 06/21/2008 4:54:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Drill Here! Drill Now! Pay Less! Sign the petition at http://www.americansolutions.com/)
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The media is making a far bigger thing out of this flooding than it deserves. This isn’t the first time we’ve had serious floods in this country.


19 posted on 06/21/2008 4:54:36 PM PDT by Brilliant
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I'm sure that the extra dose of cold air that's most assuredly built up over the past year had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with these storms and floods.


20 posted on 06/21/2008 4:59:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Drill Here! Drill Now! Pay Less! Sign the petition at http://www.americansolutions.com/)
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