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Re:Unprecedented Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest Driven by Cl... by yongjik on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:50PM (#27671552)
Your mistake, or shall I say, intentional misreading, is assuming that the existence of global warming is something that needs to be proven in the year 2021.

We have already established that AGW is real. Nobody in their right minds are asking "Does this unprecedented heat wave prove the existence of global warming?"

They are asking "Now that we know global warming is happening and that we're experiencing an unprecedented heat wave, is it likely that they are linked and we'll likely see more such events in the coming years?"

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Re:Unprecedented Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest Driven by Cl... by refurb on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:07AM (#27671657)
What? The headline literally says “this heatwave is caused by global warming”.

That’s the claim that spurious and unproven.

And yes, it’s not different than having a cold snap and saying “this cold snap is making people question if global warming is happening”.

Both are just cherry picked anecdotes.

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Re:Unprecedented Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest Driven by Cl... by gdubs on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:56AM (#27671943)
If I dump a bunch of wasps in your house, and I say, “hey, watch out for the wasps”, and then you get stung by some wasps — well, it’s pretty damn obvious what’s happening. Can you prove it? Eventually, maybe. And often times these extreme weather events do get properly studied and officially linked to Climate Change. Years later, after people make the same tired points about how you can’t prove this is linked to climate, yada yada yada.
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Re:Unprecedented Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest Driven by Cl... by refurb on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @01:15AM (#27672065)
That’s a terrible analogy.

More like “if you were a bee keeper and got bit between 3 and 5 times a day and I introduced a more aggressive bee and you got bit 5 times two days in a row it proves it was due to the more aggressive bee”.

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