> You do not sound half as smart as you seem to think you are. I would encourage you to understand the subject a tiny bit before LARPing the intelligent adult i

> You do not sound half as smart as you seem to think you are. I would encourage you to understand the subject a tiny bit before LARPing the intelligent adult in the room. Thanks for the ad-hominem attacks. That always makes discussions more productive and people amenable to consider your arguments. I may not be half as smart as I think I am, you on the other hand are coming across as an angry, immature and rude person who can't respond in a civilized manner or assume a shred of good intent from their counterparty. > We are not doing that. But we have a lot of statistical data and measurements, which demonstrate a noticeable increases of both frequency and magnitude of these events. And yet this thread is full of people saying that finally with this draught, this specific event, climate change is undeniably here. Again, I'm not arguing against climate change. I know it's happening. I'm trying to say that approaching from this angle is an argument on tricky grounds and may backfire when confronting opponents. > This event is unprecedented in recorded history in Western Europe. Whilst indeed no single event can be attributed to a single cause, again, we do have data showing that the trend follows exactly what was predicted by the models 30 to 20 years ago. This behaviour is completely inconsistent with the situation of our planet, which should otherwise be in a mild cooling cycle. Nobody disagreed with this. > Nobody is lucky, certainly not the dead or those whose house went up in flames, or those boiling at home. This attitude is juvenile and unmoored from what actually happens in the real world. You know perfectly well I didn't mean it that way. Again assuming malice and producing a strawman. > Except that it is not the case. We keep accumulating heat records, and what used to be centennial droughts are not every 2 years. People already said that in 2003, and yet it keeps getting worse. Again, nobody argued against this.