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whatshisface on Sept 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Kind of Problem Is Climate Change?

Remember when people were saying that global warming wasn't happening because we were in the middle of a particularly cold winter? Treating this year's bad weather as proof of global warming is making the same error in the other direction. The climate can only be understood as a long-term average of the quite large annual variations in weather.

chooseaname on Sept 30, 2019 [–]

I get that. I do. I said:

>How much more common does this have to be before people start acting?

Because it is becoming more common. Just as predicted.

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