Polar Bear Panic: CBS Hypes Alarmist Report On Arctic Melting

On Saturday evening, the CBS Weekend News 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.

Host Irika Sargent set up the report:

“The latest assessment of the once reliably frozen Arctic is causing alarm among climate scientists. In tonight’s “Eye on Earth,” CBS’s Roxana Saberi reports the changes could ripple across the entire globe.”

Saberi began: “The scientists say the changes they’re seeing in the Arctic are undeniable and alarming. Snow and sea ice are rapidly melting. The long-frozen tundra is growing green. And on the highest point in Greenland’s ice sheet, the rain was recorded for the first time last summer.”

The climate expert fretted:

THOMAN: Even if some records were broken, we did have parts of the Arctic, the warmest fall, 2020. The theme is really continued disruption in the Arctic.

SABERI: Disruption, he says, to the lives of Arctic animals and people.

THOMAN: Changes have already occurred. They can’t be undone in short order.

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 populations up North are thriving.

PS: CBSNews.com also served as a press-release service for climate alarmism on Monday:

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. [This is clearly a lie given the temperature data relied on is incomplete, NOT global, and cherry-picked. For more accurate temperature data, albeit a shorter timespan, see here. -CCD Ed.]

Though 2021 was not quite as warm as other recent years, scientists warned that global greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to rise.

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