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The big challenge/mistake of "science" over the years has been trying to prove slow-moving, gradual influences by pointing to extreme - often outlier - events.
by skeeter2020 1y ago
The big challenge/mistake of "science" over the years has been trying to prove slow-moving, gradual influences by pointing to extreme - often outlier - events. If you say it was a super hot summer because of climate change you inevitably open yourself to the rebuttal "but the winter before had the coldest January in 50 years!"-type of response. Combined with decades of perpetual doom & gloom and a proposed solution that depends on major immediate sacrifice and trust in politicians that the pay-off will come to your grandkids - is there any surprise we've not made any progress? Fighting climate change has a major positioning and marketing problem.
- smt88 1y ago> If you say it was a super hot summer because of climate change Real scientists don't say that. They always say something like, "This [hurricane/heat wave/whatever] is an example of what climate models predict will be increasingly common." It's individuals who don't understand the difference between climate and weather that draw those conclusions, and well-meaning news outlets do it a lot too. It's still fair to say, "Hey, you know this extreme weather we've been having for the last few years? Whether it's caused by climate change now or not, it will be the norm by the time your grandkids are in college."
- terminalshort 1y agoWho are these "well-meaning" news outlets you describe? I certainly haven't run into them.
- not_kurt_godel 1y agoI'm sure, then, that you must you have some alternate means of keeping abreast of current events so that your public discourse is grounded in a shared understanding of objective reality. Care to share what those are?
- terminalshort 1y agoI don't. I just use the clickbait whores because that's all I've got.
- not_kurt_godel 1y agohttps://apnews.com/ https://apnews.com/ is a good place to start. In the meantime, perhaps you should refrain from opinionated commenting on current events if your opinion is self-admittedly derived from "clickbait whores".