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The disservice is the causal inference that global warming is behind all the recent natural disasters. The sentence I quoted could be better written as: > Man

The disservice is the causal inference that global warming is behind all the recent natural disasters. The sentence I quoted could be better written as: > Many scientists believe that with a warming climate, certain natural disasters, such as floods, heatwaves and wildfires will become more frequent as well as severe. Scientists also say the world has warmed by about 1.1C which they believe has already begun to increase the frequency and severity of natural disasters and, as climate change continues to warm the plant, anticipate further increases in the frequency and severity of these disasters. Or whatever. I'm not a climate scientist. The point is, nobody can say for certain that the current set of natural disasters is climate change, or sheer luck. That's not a political statement, that's a scientific statement of fact. Science cannot change the facts to suit it's disposition, regardless of its good intentions.

johnchristopher 5y ago
> The point is, nobody can say for certain that the current set of natural disasters is climate change, or sheer luck. That's not a political statement, that's a scientific statement of fact. That's more like the expression of a computer scientist or a programmer mindset for whom every events can be precisely traced back to a single set of clearly identifiable causes. Just because we will never know which drop of gas is responsible for a particular event it doesn't make the whole climate science crumble. Scientific method is way cooler and useful than that because despite these unknowns we can actually move forward with our understand of the world. That's why it's false to write things like `Many scientists believe`. No, they do not believe. There are no debates. We know it. I posted this list before but I need to add a new sub step: - there are no climate change - climate change is not because of humane activities - climate change isn't that bad - we can't say climate change is affecting the weather <- you are here - climate change might be good overall - climate change is business as usual: improvise, adapt, survive

johnchristopher 5y ago

> The point is, nobody can say for certain that the current set of natural disasters is climate change, or sheer luck. That's not a political statement, that's a scientific statement of fact. That's more like the expression of a computer scientist or a programmer mindset for whom every events can be precisely traced back to a single set of clearly identifiable causes. Just because we will never know which drop of gas is responsible for a particular event it doesn't make the whole climate science crumble. Scientific method is way cooler and useful than that because despite these unknowns we can actually move forward with our understand of the world. That's why it's false to write things like `Many scientists believe`. No, they do not believe. There are no debates. We know it. I posted this list before but I need to add a new sub step: - there are no climate change - climate change is not because of humane activities - climate change isn't that bad - we can't say climate change is affecting the weather <- you are here - climate change might be good overall - climate change is business as usual: improvise, adapt, survive