CBS Evening News Blames Thursday's Severe Weather on Global Warming

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Off the top of Thursday’s CBS Evening News, the topic of conservation was the severe weather threatening those in the Midwest but in addition to looking at the storm track and damage thus far, the reason for the storms was hyped as being a consequence of global warming. 

Anchor Scott Pelley ruled in an opening tease that “[t]ornadoes in Texas” struck “on the same day that a new study blames climate change for a surge in severe storms and wildfires.”