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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 unus
by 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?