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The surge of weather news yesterday--winds, floods, fires--subsided. Only the brush fires in the parched swamps along the Georgia-Florida line qualified for further coverage by reporters. NBC's Dawn Fratangelo donned fire gear to walk through the scorched earth of a forest blackened by the fire in the Okefenokee Wildlife Refuge. CBS' Kelly Cobiella updated us on the "brief hope" offered yesterday by Tropical Storm Andrea. It turned out to be false hope, "no needed rain" just "unwanted wind."
Florida's record drought allowed CBS' Randall Pinkston to look forward to a century of summers in the region. He quoted a global warming forecast from NASA's Goddard Space Center that envisioned a truly Hotlanta 80 years from now. Pinkston apologized for filing another doom-and-gloom climate change piece: "As troubling as it is," it offers a "business as usual approach." CBS had skipped the report by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that ABC's Bill Blakemore covered last week so Pinkston played catch-up. That "offers hope," he declared, "using methods already available to government and private industry" to prevent that hotter disaster from happening.
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