In the business section of Saturday's Times was a "wealth matters" column on the topic of parents talking (or not talking) to children about an inheritance. It included this passage:
Like other areas of life in which there is strong data that should be dictating our behavior — like cigarette smoking, global warming and baseball statistics — people know what they should do but still struggle mightily to do it.
It's the second time in less than a month that a Times business section columnist, reporter, or editor has injected a global warming reference into a story that has nothing to do with the topic.