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By: zebra

zebra — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 10:51:24 +0000

#6 Richard Erskine

While attribution is problematic (a loaded dice that gives a 6 may or may not be due to its loading, but the overall long-term trend of sixes surely is).

Richard, this is a pet peeve of mine, and I would like people to consider a different approach to communicating with the public about it.

In the excellent reference you give, it is clear that we are dealing with a “new climate”. Well, how does it make sense to say that an event is not the result of the climate in which it occurs?

I understand that this is about a definition of “attribute”, but then “theory” has a well-defined meaning to scientists, and we still have “but Evolution is only a theory” as a rhetorical ploy that clearly works for some part of the public.

If we are confident in the science, what bet exactly are we hedging here?

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Honey, We Broke the Graph | Climate Denial Crock of the Week — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 02:25:57 +0000

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By: Lee Grove

Lee Grove — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:29:50 +0000

Let me be clear: The number that represents the payoffs from the PPK that Republican politiicans receive is strictly a Republican politician concern, and surely the only number that means anything to them. We know you don’t got no such stinking number;)

By: Lee Grove

Lee Grove — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:24:46 +0000

Greg,
Find out what Republican politicians take for their broken stuff, take some, and you won’t need no stinking Y-axis…or an x-axis…or math–and you can probably do away with all concern about numbers n shit–except for the one that represents the payoffs from the PPK (psychopathic planet killers)…

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 20:49:04 +0000

Probably the same doctors that treat “Fragile X-Axis Syndrome”.

By: Desertphile

Desertphile — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 19:27:48 +0000

Golly, I’m very sad to hear about your broken Y axis. I’ve heard from my doctor that there are pills one can take….

By: Richard Erskine

Richard Erskine — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 17:43:15 +0000

Here is the link….

http://climatesight.org/2012/04/03/climate-change-and-heat-waves/

By: Richard Erskine

Richard Erskine — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 17:41:55 +0000

Rüdiger – the global average warming hides a multitude of effects that are far from the benign holiday to a warmer clime that you seem to believe. The link below is a great piece of why this is the case. In Europe, 1-in-50 years ‘hot summer’ events have increase in probability to 1-in-5 years events, and these are the kind that killed 70,000 people in 2003, so not worthy of a jokey, good, fine and warm weather jibe. In addition, and more serious in a way, is that the polar regions are warming at twice the rate as elsewhere, leading to disruption of the jet stream(s) and consequent disruption of established weather patterns. While attribution is problematic (a loaded dice that gives a 6 may or may not be due to its loading, but the overall long-term trend of sixes surely is). This issue is too important for a jokey failure to engage with the science. I have a problem with that attitude, for sure.