Two articles about flooding, one about Brazil and Colombia, and another about Australia, are separated by a few pages in your current issue (“Inundated” and “Raging Waters,” January 15, 2011). They are also separated by two sections, one about the Americas and the other about Asia. But they are palpably connected by the most likely common cause, climate change, which is not even mentioned in passing. Flooding is hardly new, it goes without saying, but its increasing frequency is surely new. As well as newsworthy. A serious article about flooding must not skirt the most pertinent statistics. Pointing out the increasing frequency of natural disasters of this ilk is the simplest way to bring climate change to the attention of the reader. Especially if this is done regularly. Unfailingly. Doggedly. And this is the least one would expect from a mighty newspaper such as yours.