Locusts descend on corn belt - details at 11.

They do call it climate change. But then Slavoj Zizek, a Marxist intellectual, was on Democracy Now the other day, and threw in his rebuttal of climate change:

The same as with, for example, ecology. What to do? Is global warming clearly a threat? I don’t know. What I know is that while ecology is definitely a serious problem, maybe even the problem which threatens us, the way it is formulated, it’s a big field for ideological investment, you know, all that stuff of Gaia, Mother Earth, like our spontaneous confrontation of ecology is that there was a kind of a natural balance, homeostasis, we evil humans disrupted it, now we have to repair it. An entire mythology is there. And I think that—so, my paradoxical solution is that we need ecology without nature, that without nature, if we understand, is nature, a kind of a primordial, innocent, balanced mechanism. Nature is crazy. Nature is one big catastrophe. Oil, our main source of energy—can you even imagine what kind of ultra-unthinkable ecological catastrophe must have happened on earth in order that we have these reserves of oil? So let’s first clarify things with nature. Nature is not Mother Earth, a big balanced universe where we humans raped her, and so on and so on. Nature is imbalanced, crazy mechanism, which for—it’s much more complex. So, you see, here, I’m, in a way, much more modest. No, we intellectuals, we are really like Socratic intellectual, who—we don’t have answers, we can just clarify the questions.

The 24/7 media has just gotten better at reporting things, technology has made it easier to get pictures and globalization has given us the ability to get instant ground reports.

As far as the earthquakes/volcanic eruptions go, I seem to remember reading somewhere that we would feel the effects of that big underwater earthquake in the Indian Ocean - that caused the giant tsunami that devastated Indonesia, parts of India, Africa, etc - for years to come. Maybe the plates are moving around trying to resettle, whatever.
The rest - the cyclones, tornadoes, wildfires, etc - are surely related to our tolerance of homosexual activity in this country, the secularization of Europe, Islam and God's own fear of a Black man running the show...