The Saturday Evening Special will be held at CBS Weekend News on CBSN seized on a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to promote global warming alarmism and a push for more regulations to curtail melting in the Arctic.
Only one scientist, Rick Thoman — who helped write the report — was used as the primary source for the entire story, filed by CBS correspondent Roxana Saberi.
Irika Saargent hosted the report. It read: “The new assessment of once reliable frozen Arctic is causing alarm for climate scientists. Roxana Saberi, CBS’s meteorologist reports that these changes may have a ripple effect across the whole globe in tonight’s CBS “Eye on Earth”.
Saberi said, “The changes that scientists are seeing in Arctic is undeniable. They’re alarming.” Both snow and sea ice is rapidly melting. The tundra, which has been long frozen is becoming green. Rain was also recorded last summer at Greenland’s highest point.
Climate expert worried:
THOMAN: We did manage to have some parts of the Arctic in 2020, which was the warmest autumn, even though records were broken. It is really about continued disruption in Arctic.
SABERI: He says disruption is good for the Arctic animals’ lives People.
THOMAN: There have been changes already. They cannot be reversed quickly.
CBS ignored the argument that the Arctic was already warming in the early 20th century, and ignored studies in recent years finding that the polar bear population up North is thriving.
PS. CBSNews.com served also as a news-release service on Monday for climate alarmism:
The past seven years have been the hottest ever recorded globally “by a clear margin,” according to findings released Monday by scientists with the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Although 2021 wasn’t as hot as recent years it was, scientists warned that global greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to rise.
Here’s the transcript:
CBS Weekend News
January 8, 2021
IRIKA SARGENT is the host. The most recent assessment of the Arctic’s once reliable freezing has alarmist climate scientists. Roxana Saberi, CBS News’s Roxana reports that these changes may ripple throughout the world in tonight’s CBS “Eye on Earth”.
ROXANA SABERI (Science): Scientists are concerned about the Arctic’s changes. Both snow and sea ice is rapidly melting. The tundra, which has been frozen for so long is turning green. Rain was also recorded last summer at Greenland’s highest point.
RICK THOMAN, CLIMATE EXPERT: Should we be concerned? Absolutely.
SABERI: Climate specialist Rick Tolman helped write the annual report card — the 16th released by the U.S. government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
THOMAN – Even though there have been some record breaking, parts of Arctic saw the warmest autumn, 2020. This is the theme of continued Arctic disruption.
SABERI? He believes that disruption can lead to the deaths of Arctic people and animals.
THOMAN: There have been changes already. They cannot be reversed quickly.
SABERI – Even wildfires have the power to scorch the land that was once permanently frozen at Siberia. In 2020, U.N. officials reported that this record reached around 100°F.
THOMAN – The Siberia heat of 2020 without climate change would be almost impossible.
SABERI: According to the report, global warming is accelerating because of the Arctic melting and rising sea level. What can we do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
THOMAN: It is essential that we reduce the carbon dioxide emissions humans cause to the atmosphere. It’s clear that this is the case. While it is late, now is the right time.
SABERI says that the sooner we take action to save the Arctic, the better we will be able to prevent catastrophic disruptions from reaching the rest of our planet.
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