A reader sent me this:

Dear Mr. Goldberg:
I am certain others have probably already noted the following, but I couldin’t resist an email nonetheless. It took longer than I expected, but inevitably, as the tides roll in and out, as the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West, as the taxman cometh every year and as death stalks us all, the headline eventually appeared:
“Midwest floods caused by global warming, according to scientists” Noted on Yahoo! News headlines this morning for the first time. But hey, at least this time it’s not about how Bush and the evil Cheney were using that machine in the basement of the Naval Observatory to actually manipulate the weather, a la Katrina. That’s progress of a sort, right?
Best regards,

To which I say, don’t be too quick spotting progress out there. Apparently CBS and the AP were perfectly willing to believe that global warming is behind the rise in … wait for it … earthquakes:

CBS News and the Associated Press were quick to regurgitate claims that global warming has increased the intensity of earthquakes fivefold in the past 20 years. But had either taken the time to investigate, they would have discovered that both the source’s facts and credentials were, if you’ll pardon the expression, on very tremorous ground.
In a Wednesday piece — suddenly vanished on Thursday — attributed to the AP, CBS warned in its subtitle that a new “study” has found “Seismic Activity 5 Times More Energetic Than 20 Years Ago Because Of Global Warming.” Based on a Tuesday Market Wire press release, the article went on to say that:
“The research proves that destructive ability of earthquakes on Earth increases alarmingly fast and that this trend is set to continue, unless the problem of ‘global warming’ is comprehensively and urgently addressed.”