'World News' Rediscovers Global Warming

It might seem like a non-issue. With the stock market way off its 2007 record highs and banking institutions failing in the midst of a presidential election, global warming alarmists have toned down their pleas for economy-killing greenhouse gas emission regulations.

But ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” is attempting to keep the issue in focus. Gibson’s Oct. 16 broadcast raised “new concerns” about climate change.

“New concerns today about climate change,” Gibson said. “In its annual arctic report card, the government says the ice in Greenland is melting at a record pace. Twenty-four cubic miles of ice disappeared in 2007.

To put it in perspective – Gibson illustrated for viewers just how much ice 24 cubic meters is.

“That’s equal to the amount of water consumed in Los Angeles in an entire year,” Gibson said. “Air temperatures in Greenland have risen nearly five degrees, adding to the number of days when melting occurs.”
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In January 2008, Greenlanders were noting the increase in ice in some regions, according to a Jan. 16 article in The Copenhagen (Dk.) Post.

“On Disko Bay in western Greenland, where a number of prominent world leaders have visited in recent years to get a first-hand impression of climate change, temperatures have dropped so drastically that the water has frozen over for the first time in a decade,” the article said.

“The ice is up to 50cm thick,” Henrik Matthiesen, an employee at Denmark’s Meteorological Institute, said to the Post. “We’ve had loads of northerly winds since Christmas which has made the area miserably cold.”