This absurd post by Joseph Romm, in which he accuses TheNew York Times of "media malpractice" due to supposed errant climate change coverage in several recent stories, reveals a doctrinaire mindset on the relationship between global warming and natural disasters that is becoming all too common in environmentalists. Romm is ticked off because, among other things, this front-page Times piece on California's drought didn't mention human-induced climate change as a "likely" factor and that another Times piece on Australia's catastrophic fires ("Australia Police Confirm Arson Role in Wildfires") was improperly headlined. Regarding the latter, let's remember that straight news coverage of major disasters tend to highlight the newsiest developments of the moment. To Romm, though, the Times headline was a missed opportunity: