Tim Blair recently posted this list of things that the media have trumpeted as being the “first casualties of climate change”. I thought it would be an interesting exercise to check the veracity of each story – but what I was not expecting is that every story up until 2010 (after which some of the claims are too recent to verify one way or another) has either been completely debunked, or has since had some serious doubts placed on it. So the following examples have not been cherry picked – it’s a quick analysis of every claim made about “the...