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To: bentway who wrote (346277)	8/9/2007 2:31:43 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1576946

True believers "NBC has apparently abandoned any doubt about the formulation that bad or hot weather in the summer proves man-made global warming since just two years after 'NBC Nightly News' pointed out how 'three of the five warmest summers on record were in the 1930s,' Tuesday's newscast showcased a U.N. report to contend 'extreme weather' and an August heat wave demonstrate man-made global warming," the Media Research Center's Brent Baker writes at www.mrc.org. "Back on the July 25, 2005, 'NBC Nightly News,' after a man on the street declared that 'it seems like each summer is a little warmer than the one before,' reporter Carl Quintanilla countered: 'Actually, that's not right.' He noted that 'three of the five warmest summers on record were in the 1930s. Climate experts like Kevin Trenberth say the one-degree increase in temperature this century is no reason to break a sweat.' "Two years later, on Tuesday night, fill-in NBC anchor Ann Curry segued from a summer heat-wave story to how 'a new report out from the U.N. says we are in an extreme weather year all over the globe and the question tonight: Is global warming to blame?' Citing 'a worldwide path of destruction,' Anne Thompson asserted that 'global land surface temperatures in January and April were likely the warmest since records began 120 years ago, extremes scientists say are consistent with an increase in carbon dioxide, man-made global warming.' "