All of those Global Warming stories have been queued up for months. The plan was to release several a day in the weeks just before Copenhagen. That would build a sense of immediacy so that the massive changes proposed at Copenhagen would be broadly accepted by the public.
But Global Warming is now known to be a fraud, so these long-queued stories are almost comical.
Beach Erosion is not the same thing as Global Warming -- though they want us to think so.