FROM A “GLOBAL WARMING” PERSPECTIVE, ISN’T THIS GOOD NEWS? Sam Champion’s morning show cancelled as Weather Channel pulls back on original programming reporting that online is now their most lucrative platform.
Back in 2007, when he was a weatherman on ABC’s Good Morning America, that show ran a Chyron hysterically asking, “Will Billions Die from Global Warming?”, over which Champion declared:
That’s what’s in this report and why everyone is trying to jump this report that officially comes out Friday, Robin. There are big, new headlines and some of them are coming out of Australia in media reports. Now, they say that those scientists in Paris will estimate that between 1.1 and 3.2 billion people will suffer from water shortage problems by 2080. That’s not your grandchildren, that’s your children. And between 200 million and 600 million more people will be going hungry.
Well — gosh. (Video at link.) If things are that bad, don’t the networks have an obligation to go off the air and shut down their Internet server to reduce energy use and help save the planet? Even if they’re doing it one show at a time, anyone who asks “Will billions die from global warming?” with a straight face should applaud these baby steps taken by the Weather Channel.
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