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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration made a splash by forecasting the impact of global warming on the national climate. All three newscasts relayed its doomsday scenarios. NOAA took us around the country region by region. So, for example, ABC's Bill Blakemore showed how a future New Hampshire will have the same climate as the current Carolinas and how Illinois will be the next Texas. NBC's Anne Thompson told us that New York City can expect a pair of hundred-year floods within just the next 40 years and that the aquifer used by great plains agribusiness will run dry. CBS' Daniel Sieberg promised more intense hurricanes in the southeast and more intense wildfires in the southwest. Only CBS' Sieberg filed a soundbite from a climate change denier. Both Blakemore and Thompson treated NOAA's forecast as frightening…but not controversial.
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