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Climate change has a hard time cracking the network's news agenda. Reporters have filed only 53 packages on global warming in the past three years on all three newscasts combined. NBC (24 reports v ABC 18, CBS 11) has been the least remiss. Environmental correspondent Anne Thompson alone has been responsible for 14 of them. Thompson's latest report covered "the hottest debate in the blogosphere" in the lead-up to the United Nations' conference on global warming in Copenhagen. She was referring to the hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia in England that revealed "climate scientists massaging data and suppressing studies by those who disagree." The upshot, Thompson's unidentified sources predicted, would not so much undercut environmental diplomacy in Denmark as block carbon politics on Capitol Hill, "giving politicians from coal-and-oil producing states another reason to delay action to reduce emissions."
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