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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by walrus01 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @10:36PM (#26189354)
Plot the number of 100 year records being broken per year, for extreme heat or extreme cold, on a chart for the past 20 years and then tell me there isn't something unusual going on in the recent climate.

It's a scientific fact that many places in the world are now seeing weather extremes that have literally not been recorded in their past 100 years of data, on a rapidly increasing basis.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53140069

https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1066882

but I'm sure that you'll be happy to tell me that the United Nations and the BBC are both extreme left-wing partisans.

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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by JamesBarney on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:05AM (#26190249)
Is it true we're having an anomalous number of extreme cold events? All of your links are about an anomalous number of extreme heating events.
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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by slibhb on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:27PM (#26189732)
You took my first response as "climate change is left-wing". You took my second response as "statistics aren't real". I never said either of those things.

I think pointing to a weather event and saying "look climate change!" is dumb. It's not statistics. No matter how steep your line is, it doesn't prove "X weather event would not have occurred if not for global warming".

All I responded to was this comment which was nasty and added nothing to your post:

> And where else in the USA has been a bastion of oil/petrochemical industry climate change denialism, than Texas?

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