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cos2pi | 6 years ago

Agreed, this has repeatedly been one of the biggest failings in communicating the reality of anthropogenic climate change.

Climate change is not a single event, nor a cluster of events, that occur(s) over a summer. Strong hurricanes have occurred well before Dorian [1]. So have heat waves [2].

Extreme weather happens. The change in the frequency of (some) extreme events can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change, but a single event cannot.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_Labor_Day_hurricane

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wave

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