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When the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico rose to the top as 2010's Story of the Year, Tyndall Report complained about the lack of follow through in coverage of fossil fuel energy policy and its impact on global warming and climate change. Finally, Linsey Davis connects some dots on ABC. For only the fourth time in the last twelve months (two other reports were on ABC by Jonathan Karl and Clayton Sandell; one was by CBS' Mark Phillips) the nightly newscasts filed on the topic. Davis pointed to the floods in Queensland (covered by NBC's Ian Williams and Network Ten's Danielle Isdale for CBS) and the mudslides outside Rio de Janeiro (covered by NBC's Mark Potter) and this week's record snowstorm in southern New England (covered by ABC's Jeremy Hubbard) and predicted only more and more extremes.
Here is how a warmer globe means a snowier winter: "The decade that just ended had nine out of the ten warmest years since they started keeping record in 1880. Scientists say that means more moisture in the air…In America that means snow."
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