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"We know our village has been beset with wolves. We have hundreds of attacks in recent months." "This morning I found a sheep dead with bite marks." "Your sin
by jellicle 8y ago
"We know our village has been beset with wolves. We have hundreds of attacks in recent months."
"This morning I found a sheep dead with bite marks."
"Your singular data point doesn't mean anything!"
To be more clear, the scientific offense of cherry-picking only applies when one intentionally picks a data point against the body of evidence. You can't look at each individual raindrop in a downpour and argue that each one is only a singular data point and therefore it ain't raining.
You also misunderstand that a small increase in global temperature can, and is predicted to, cause very large, local, increases and decreases in local temperature, largely through disrupting the world's prevalent wind and water patterns.