Maybe journalists are reporting what’s on the mind of readers, like they always do? A distressing weather event is news and has always been. The connection of

Maybe journalists are reporting what’s on the mind of readers, like they always do? A distressing weather event is news and has always been. The connection of any such event to climate change is something that most people wonder about, and journalists can do little besides ask an expert for their take. And the expert inevitably says “well, we can’t credit any specific event to climate change but extreme and unfamiliar weather patterns are a symptom in any case” How would you rather it go? Should the journalist find an expert who wouldn’t say that? Where would they find one? Should the journalist stop reporting on the weather? Stop addressing what’s on reader’s minds when they do?