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Re:Do climate models predict extreme weather? by sanxiyn on Saturday January 08, 2022 @09:32PM (#29859323)
I am saying it is better to have control groups than not. Hopefully that is non-controversial.
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Re:Do climate models predict extreme weather? by dpierce9 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @09:57PM (#29859509)
That isn’t controversial. The issue is your first point, there is no control group for the Earth as a whole system. So demanding a control group as a barrier to causal reasoning about the relationship between weather and the climate is an impossible bar.

Weather is real. Weather has causes. We can and do reason about those causes all the time.

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