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NBC Reports on Hell and High Water

 June 28, 2007

As ABC did last month, NBC reported last night not on the book, but on the painful twin reality of terrible wildfires (along with heatwaves) and flooding hitting this country at the same time.

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No mention of climate change — this is the mainstream media, after all — but ABC did note the rain fell in Texas “in almost Biblical amounts,” as much as 19 inches in 24 hours — just the kind of deluge scientists expect to become more common thanks to global warming.

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This entry was posted by Joe on Thursday, June 28th, 2007 at 2:58 pm and is filed under Extreme Weather, Media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “NBC Reports on Hell and High Water”

  1. Darryl Pearce says:
    June 29, 2007 at 11:41 am

    …you last link in this post “no workie”. Other than that…: great website! Keep up the good work.

  2. Joe says:
    June 29, 2007 at 1:59 pm

    Fixed! Thanks for the post.