Vituperation

It's hard to keep the notion of attributing a cause separate from the notion of casting blame.  That seems a shame.  The Latin, at least, is clear.  Casting blame can be fairly called "vituperation."  It's a combination of vitium, "fault" and parare, "to make or prepare." 

So "making a fault" falls on the "casting blame" side.  Causal attribution has nothing to do with fault.  It seems that it ought not to be as hard as it is to keep them separate.