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Yes, it feels like cherry picking when people say something like "climate change makes severe weather events more likely" in connection with a drought or unusua
by VBprogrammer 4y ago
Yes, it feels like cherry picking when people say something like "climate change makes severe weather events more likely" in connection with a drought or unusually hot spell but ridicule anyone who tries to use a particularly cold winter as evidence that climate change is not happening.
We should avoid the association between climate and short term weather phenomenon altogether.
And yes, the COVID lockdowns showed the limits of individual action on climate change. Even if people can't leave their house (except for some limited purposes) the reduction in carbon emissions are relatively small. It's a problem for government and industry to solve in the main. The only difficulty is how to ensure that we elect governments who take it seriously without scaring some people?
- cinntaile 4y ago> Yes, it feels like cherry picking when people say something like "climate change makes severe weather events more likely" in connection with a drought or unusually hot spell but ridicule anyone who tries to use a particularly cold winter as evidence that climate change is not happening. Climate change results in more extreme weather, both warm and cold. So a particularly cold winter can be a result of climate change as well.
- VBprogrammer 4y agoSure but that's not the point. The point is associating any single weather event with climate change is wrong whether it helps your case or not. You can say something like over the last decade droughts are 32% more frequently than in the previous decade but just tacking it arbitrarily on to any reporting about a particular weather event is misleading.
- cinntaile 4y agoOk, I agree with that.
- swottler 4y agoSource?