News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Just how hot was July? Hotter than anything on record. Parent comment

Re:Just how hot was July? Hotter than anything on record by archerx on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @03:54PM (#37138541)
There are plenty of other people from different parts of Europe confirm my anecdote of having a cooler summer. We should not fall for the fallacy of appealing to authority when we can easily collect data ourselves and confirm the findings.

I thought hacker news immune to such fallacies but it seems I was wrong. Very disappointing.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Just how hot was July? Hotter than anything on record by midoridensha on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @03:21AM (#37143791)
"It's so disappointing that hacker news doesn't believe my conspiracy theory!"
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Just how hot was July? Hotter than anything on record by lm28469 on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @04:49AM (#37144377)
> There are plenty of other people from different parts of Europe confirm my anecdote of having a cooler summer.

And plenty who say it's warmer than usual, so what now ?

> We should not fall for the fallacy of appealing to authority

The data is out there, you're free to look at it, most countries publish historical weather data from as far as they have been recording it

> when we can easily collect data ourselves and confirm the findings.

Can you ? I personally don't own a continent wide array of weather stations, but if you do please publish your findings

[ Parent | on HN ]