<p>[<em>More in the cross-post on the MRC's <a href=" http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2014/07/16/cbs-shamelessly-h… ; target="_blank">NewsBusters blog</a>.</em>]</p><p>Wednesday's <em>CBS Evening News</em> unsurprisingly spotlighted a recent study that asserted that turbulence will become more common due to climate change during a news brief about the injuries on an international flight that encountered such unsettled air. Anchor Scott Pelley played up how "one British study predicts that this kind of turbulence will increase significantly in the future because of climate change."</p><p>The full transcript of Scott Pelley's brief from the 16 July 2014 edition of <em>CBS Evening News</em>:</p><p>SCOTT PELLEY: Twenty people were hurt overnight – two seriously – when a South African Airways jetliner hit severe turbulence on its way to Hong Kong. One passenger's head put a hole in the overhead bin on the Airbus A-340. The turbulence happened without warning. Many passengers were sleeping.<br /><br />Turbulence is caused when two air masses move against each other. One British study predicts that this kind of turbulence will increase significantly in the future because of climate change.</p>

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