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But every hurricane season we hear it, it’s been talked about with the Canadian wildfires, locally in Minnesota they’ve been blaming our recent droughts on it,

But every hurricane season we hear it, it’s been talked about with the Canadian wildfires, locally in Minnesota they’ve been blaming our recent droughts on it, etc. It wasn’t all that long ago that interviewed climate scientists would say that you couldn’t attribute individual events to climate change. Now they constantly do. I feel like I hear it every other time I tune in to NPR.

UtopiaPunk 3y ago
I'm definitely not an expert, but my understanding is that it is impossible to point to one single event and say climate change is responsible for that event. Weather is dynamic, you know? But climate change does account for there being more events (more hurricanes, more days of record breaking temperatures, more wildfires, etc). And as someone on the west coast who now assumes there will be at least one or two weeks of miserable wildfire smoke every summer, I think that impact is worth taking seriously today.
tremon 3y ago
you couldn’t attribute individual events to climate change. Now they constantly do "constantly"? It's ironic that you put these two statements together like they somehow prove your point, while you're actually undermining your own position. Here's what the climate scientists have been saying: "you can't attribute individual weather events directly to climate change. However, climate change will increase the likelihood of extreme weather events occurring". So, if the media (note, not scientists) is "constantly" talking about extreme weather events, that does seem to prove that extreme weather events are happening more often, right? Which kinda confirms what the scientists were predicting all along? It's not the individual events that prove climate change: it is the pattern of "constant" extreme weather events.

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But every hurricane season we hear it, it’s been talked about with the Canadian wildfires, locally in Minnesota they’ve been blaming our recent droughts on it,

by Auracle 3y ago

UtopiaPunk 3y ago
I'm definitely not an expert, but my understanding is that it is impossible to point to one single event and say climate change is responsible for that event. Weather is dynamic, you know? But climate change does account for there being more events (more hurricanes, more days of record breaking temperatures, more wildfires, etc). And as someone on the west coast who now assumes there will be at least one or two weeks of miserable wildfire smoke every summer, I think that impact is worth taking seriously today.
tremon 3y ago
you couldn’t attribute individual events to climate change. Now they constantly do "constantly"? It's ironic that you put these two statements together like they somehow prove your point, while you're actually undermining your own position. Here's what the climate scientists have been saying: "you can't attribute individual weather events directly to climate change. However, climate change will increase the likelihood of extreme weather events occurring". So, if the media (note, not scientists) is "constantly" talking about extreme weather events, that does seem to prove that extreme weather events are happening more often, right? Which kinda confirms what the scientists were predicting all along? It's not the individual events that prove climate change: it is the pattern of "constant" extreme weather events.