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I wasn't putting words in your mouth, I was lampooning your position by making an equivalent statement.
by thefurdrake 3y ago
I wasn't putting words in your mouth, I was lampooning your position by making an equivalent statement.
- oatmeal1 3y agoYour statement was not equivalent. That's why it was putting words in my mouth!
- thefurdrake 3y agoAh, but it is equivalent. It makes an absurd statement about being able to predict and correlate the effects or not of a phenomenon we have evidence of occurring in the past numerous times. Because climate change is real and observable with historical evidence. Just like the common cold. That's why it's not putting words in your mouth! EDIT: By the way, I realize what you're trying to say. Unfortunately, it's not confirmation bias for CNN not to cite every single source discussing climate change and its alterations of recent climate patterns, though it is pretty lazy, which is about standard for CNN. Still, nobody's saying "Lol rain must be climate change", and if you read the article, you'd be able to pick out the distinction.
- oatmeal1 3y agoMy claim is basically that someone sneezing doesn't mean that they have the cold. And even if they did have a cold, the sneeze could be caused by something else. Not once did I say or suggest climate change is not real, or could not cause this extreme weather event. I can't make it any simpler for you.
- thefurdrake 3y agoIf you read the article, you'd see that the claim is that the storm is only a datapoint in the pattern of worsening weather events, which does, in fact, have supporting evidence-- weather events are growing more intense and more common. This is a fact. It bears mentioning when extreme weather events occur. I can't make it any simpler for you.
- pauldenton 3y agoHow good are our data sources? Like how accurate is our count of storms, hurricanes and typhoons making landfall in Australia and New Zealand. Do we have any data sources that go prior to 1606 when the first Europeans arrived? How accurate is our storm/hurricane/forest fire count for California, before the first American settlers arrived in the Bartleson–Bidwell Party of 1841?
- thefurdrake 3y agoYou should ask this question somewhere that isn't deep in a minor argument with another user rather than following my user profile :)