Jumping the Shark on Global Warming

On Wednesday August 7, 2013, the PBS NewsHour had a discussion segment titled "Tempers May Flare and Conflicts Rise as Climate Change Heats Up," Study Finds. Apparently, someone at the NewsHour never got the memo about the logical fallacy of "correlation does not imply causation", best illustrated by graphs showing how the rise in postage stamp prices closely matches the rise in global temperatures. Entertaining as it might be to speculate if the NewsHour has finally jumped the climate change shark with this report, it also serves as a more serious example of journalistic malfeasance on the issue.