Re:UK weather: February temperature jump was incredible, say...
by jellicle on Sunday March 03, 2019 @11:35AM
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"We know our village has been beset with wolves. We have hundreds of attacks in recent months."
"This morning I found a sheep dead with bite marks."
"Your singular data point doesn't mean anything!"
To be more clear, the scientific offense of cherry-picking only applies when one intentionally picks a data point against the body of evidence. You can't look at each individual raindrop in a downpour and argue that each one is only a singular data point and therefore it ain't raining.
You also misunderstand that a small increase in global temperature can, and is predicted to, cause very large, local, increases and decreases in local temperature, largely through disrupting the world's prevalent wind and water patterns.
"This morning I found a sheep dead with bite marks."
"Your singular data point doesn't mean anything!"
To be more clear, the scientific offense of cherry-picking only applies when one intentionally picks a data point against the body of evidence. You can't look at each individual raindrop in a downpour and argue that each one is only a singular data point and therefore it ain't raining.
You also misunderstand that a small increase in global temperature can, and is predicted to, cause very large, local, increases and decreases in local temperature, largely through disrupting the world's prevalent wind and water patterns.