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> and for climate change to not be causing any serious problems. ... which is not even remotely what the author said. We are in "Did you read the article?" ter
by inimino 10y ago
> and for climate change to not be causing any serious problems.
... which is not even remotely what the author said. We are in "Did you read the article?" territory here.
> I'm going the best I can with what I've got.
What that means is that you've picked your conclusion, you scrounged some premises, and constructed an argument to fit.
It seems you're approaching this in a high school debate-team, rhetorical, "but what about" style and not actually honestly looking for facts.
- lisper 10y ago> ... which is not even remotely what the author said The author said that there was "scant evidence" that climate change is causing extreme climate events. That is what I dispute. I believe the evidence is not scant. In fact, I'm pretty sure the evidence is quite plentiful, but I cannot demonstrate that at the moment because of resource constraints (very low bandwidth internet). But you could go look up the drought data and prove me wrong, at least about that. (But then we would still have to talk about the author's very misleading claim about hurricanes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13099156 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13099156) [UPDATE:] Found some accessible drought data: http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/adai/papers/Dai-drought_WIRES2010.pdf http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/adai/papers/Dai-drought_WIRES201...