You are already seeing it with the whole climate change panic.
A neighborhood floods during a storm in Norfolk VA and it is suddenly the fault of climate change. They ignore the neighborhood was built on dredging material dumped there in the 1850s that had settled 14 inches since the homes were built in the 1920s.
3 houses are washed out to sea by a winter storm on Plum Island MA and they blame climate change. They ignore the fact that much of that island did not exist until a rock jetty was built in the mid 1800s at the mouth of a river. They ignore that the island was nearly wiped off the face of the earth by a series of storms around 1900. Or that much of the current island is made of dredging material dumped there during the effort to rebuild the island after those storms.
A section of roadway gets washed away in San Francisco and they blame global warming. They ignore that the road was built over marsh lands filled in over 100 years ago as part of a multi decade effort that back filled thousands of acres of marsh lands in the bay area. Who do you sue when the ocean is reclaiming the marshes as it was here and in Norfolk VA?
My favorite is the DeRose Winery in CA. This old winery has changed hands over the years, but one of the recent owners tried to sue the state and county after they found out one of the buildings was being ripped in two by the San Andreas fault.
The building had been built on the fault line. This fact had been known for decades, but somehow it was the governments fault they were not aware of the problem when they bought the place.
http://geologycafe.com/fieldtrips/cienega_valley.html 
