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I think it's a little unscientific to see literally every change in ecological and weather patterns blamed automatically on climate change. Climate change itse
by joe_the_user 7y ago
I think it's a little unscientific to see literally every change in ecological and weather patterns blamed automatically on climate change.
Climate change itself is well-established scientifically. It is indeed hard to determine exactly which changes in the earth's ecology are a direct product of climate change. But it is important avoid a jump from this to "well, not such an emergency after all". This is because a wide of ecological and local climate conditions are driven by temperature.
- Brakenshire 7y agoIndeed, the first part of his post was reasonable, it is true that other factors are extremely important or perhaps dominant in some of these cases, loss of habitat and insecticide use for the loss of insects, and for wildfires, suburban settlement into forests leading to suppression of regular burning and a consequent build-up on the fuel load. But then he takes a totally unjustified leap into using a quote from an insurance executive to draw sweeping conclusions about academic institutions and climate science in general. Very strange.
- CalRobert 7y agoI mean, not _every_ one of Barry Bonds' home runs were due to steroids, either. Doesn't mean steroids didn't matter.