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| Topic | Would Harvey make Texans Rethink about Climate change? |
| darkknight109 08/30/17 1:37:29 AM #16: | No, but nor should it, and that is true regardless of whether you acknowledge man-made climate change is real or not. I always get annoyed with people who take this attitude, even ignoring how tacky it is ("Hah, sucks to be you! If you'd just believed in climate change, your house and all your possessions would still be around!"), because it has absolutely no basis in science. Saying any one event is attributable to climate change is absurd, because the science simply isn't that precise. For all we know, this one particular storm could have been worse in a world without anthropogenic climate change. You can't attribute individual events to climate change; you can only note trends. Harvey is one data-point on the graph, not a trendline in and of itself. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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