I wondered how long it would take for someone to blame global warming for winter storms and tornadoes. Katie Couric. What can I say about the apparent intelligence of Katie Couric?
After leading with the terrible toll of deadly “super-cell” storms with tornadoes which struck Missouri and Alabama on Thursday, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric’s mind turned to global warming as the potential cause. She asked “CBS News weather analyst” Bryan Norcross, working out of the network’s Washington bureau: “Bryan, I understand people have been asking you this all day” — probably CBS News staffers in the DC bureau — “Does this have anything to do with global warming?”  ~mrc.org
Brilliant!
But seriously, this is the state of where our scientific consensus has led us. Scientific consensus is that the earth is at war with the Bush administration. Everything that happens, possibly destructive, can be traced back to how our leaders have angered the gods.
There is, of course, a long history of this type of irrational belief.