Bloomberg thinks hot-dog contests are fun, but soda and burgers are shameful. - Slate Magazine

One of these days, the Bloomberg who loves to celebrate gorging, promote a hot-dog chain, and yuk it up with competitive eating promoters will meet the Bloomberg who wants to restrict soda size, shame burger chains, and scold people who find humor in his crusade against supersized drinks. Until then, it’s hard to see why anyone should take him seriously.

Not so fast on blaming global warming - The Washington Post

CAN YOU BLAME the scorching weather on climate change? Not really. Or at least not yet.
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The upshot? Anyone who, in the midst of a hurricane here or a heat wave there, simplistically blames greenhouse gas emissions is wrong. But it’s also wrong to blame all extreme events on forces beyond human control....

And the planet is certainly warming. Humans releasing heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere are almost certainly responsible for much, if not all, of that warming; the particular patterns of warming [What, specifically, about the "patterns of warming" points to CO2 rather than anything else as the primary driver?], comparison to the historical record, and the basic precepts of physics all indicate this.