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You cannot take prove a global phenomenon with local data, unless you compare global occurrences of local events. Taking only Texas as an "example" means you'r
by koheripbal 6y ago
You cannot take prove a global phenomenon with local data, unless you compare global occurrences of local events.
Taking only Texas as an "example" means you're cherry picking data. I'm sure we could find other parts of the world that had multiple rare events in every decade of the last century as well.
- titzer 6y agoIt was just an example. If you look at all the data together, the trend is clear. Both median temperatures and variance are increasing. Same for other extreme weather events like hurricanes, wildfires, and droughts.
- koheripbal 6y agoIs there a data source that says that temperature variances have increased? I have never seen meaningful evidence of this. > Same for other extreme weather events like hurricanes, wildfires, and droughts. Extreme weather events are extremely hard to define, and have such a low occurrence rate that you cannot extrapolate an increase in the timeframe we're discussing on a global level.