CBS Funny?

Today, while watching CBS news I witnessed the main media's tone deafness regarding global warming and climate change.

As a witty end to the newscast, which by the way carried the news of a flash flood that blew away a 50 years old dam, CBS carried a comparison between last winter and this summer.

In both segments, the "odd" heat, and "odd" amounts of snow were pointed to in a jovial way as somehow examples of "people griping about the weather, but can't do anything about it".

I cringed as I watched it.

Everyday...every single day, there is more compelling evidence that CO 2 emissions are creating climate change that could render our future a living hell on earth.

There is more moisture in the atmosphere. There just is. This results in incredible downpours and huge snowfalls. These "freak storms" are just not freak. They are products of dramatic climate change.

Meanwhile, the major media continues to ignore global warming, or treat it like a "freak climate oddity" and write witty, funny pieces about it.

Nashville, Tennessee, Alabama, New Orleans, Shasta County, San Diego; the list goes on and on. Wildfires, huge rainfall totals that wash hundreds of houses away.

And don't forget the droughts in California, Arizona and other western states. Shasta Lake, the key lake in the Central Valley Project, filled this year for the first time in almost 20 years.

We are still considered to be in a drought condition. And this is only the beginning.

Meanwhile, thanks to CBS/NBC/Fox/ABC et al, people are propagandized that the climate catastrophe is somehow a cute, funny thing...just "mother nature being mother nature".

The polar ice cap will melt completely in the next 10 years. It may be gone in the summer next year!

I won't list the 99% scientific belief in global warming. I won't list the full court press that oil companies like BP are waging to convince us all that global warming is just cute, or funny.

So, we don't do anything. The energy bill fails in the Senate. There is no climate legislation. California is poised to vote for a proposition that will stop our efforts to act now to reduce CO 2 emissions until unemployment gets to levels we haven't seen in twenty years. Of course this is sponsored by oil companies.

Cute. It's really all cute.

In a few years this cute little "thing" will kill millions of human beings, animals, and just might poison the oceans. This little cute thing may end human civilization on the planet.

And tonight, with this calamity looking us right in the face, CBS does a piece on how funny the odd hot weather is, and how funny the huge eastern snow drifts were.

Of course, both seasons set records for precipitation and heat. 2009 was the hottest year in human recorded history..

And it is just starting.

And it is not funny.