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Genuine question: would you please quote where I dismissed the entire study? (note that I have slightly modified the wording of the first sentence since your or

• jacquesm 3y ago
  That's exactly the problem though: rather than to build upon the ideas in the article all you did was find fault with a single word, and that drove your comment. Instead, if you were to take this serious you could approach it constructively rather than destructively. It's maybe a bit more work but I think the cumulative effect of that would result in a much better discussion around the subject matter. 6 degrees difference sounds like it is huge, right? But: that's 6 degrees with a margin of error, and with a difference per species (it is an average!) that further enlarges that margin for error. Then there are possible feedback mechanisms to contend with, as well as various local effects. Rather than to just accentuate the fact that 'approaching' is doing the heavy lifting it would be trivial to point out that this is how scientists communicate around things they are not 100% sure of (and that includes most things), but meanwhile us silly laypeople should not assume that because the statement is made carefully that it still is a warning and so can't be dismissed out of hand. That is more typing but it takes you out of 'dismissal', which is how I read your original comment, especially with the 'far more' in there which is - ironically - doing a lot of heavy lifting in your original comment.