The same reason the climate is collapsing: people don't like difficult truths.
Don't get me wrong. Climate change is real. But these blunt claims like "it was raining today and the same day last year there was no rain so we are all doomed" hurt more than help dealing with the issue.
We need more statistics. We need to make less conclusion from single incidents.
Yes, dozens of them, year after year! Nothing to see here. Def not climate change tho, just a coincidence.
Re: climate change, I don't quite get the call for "less conclusions from single incidents". It's not like research is non-existent or contradictory, is it? Just a quick google search leads me to articles like this[0] saying there's well over 300 studies supporting the idea that extreme weather events can be blamed on humans.
I feel like saying "correlation is not causation" when the world is quite literally on fire is about as close as it gets to the "this is fine" meme...
[0] https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-climate-change-affect...
OK, then present statistics (not you, but everyone who try to convince climate change from single incidents).
Individual incidents only damage the cause. Fires happened all the time in the last million years. One can't come to correct conclusions about they getting more frequent from their personal observation of news feed.
> Just a quick google search leads me to articles like this
As I said, I'm not denying climate change, global warming, increased frequency of forest fires etc.
Just don't be (not you) religious pro-climate-change fanatic indistinguishable from client-change-denier fanatic. Present data, studies.
No offense, but this sounds awfully like the "temperature rises occurred before" rhetoric, while ignoring magnitude[0]
Yes forest fires can be natural, but for this specific one, another comment upthread mentioned it potentially being linked to a history of illegal logging. The melting of the polar cap has been documented fairly thoroughly, and I already mentioned the existence of studies about extreme weather. We know for fact that there's a strong relationship between our polluting ways and arctic ice melting, and that there's a relationship between that and extreme weather events. Hopefully it shouldn't take a PhD to figure out irresponsible human-made logging fires + record high temperatures are a recipe for disaster(tm)
Personally, I think we're a little past the "show us the data" territory. "Seriously, WTF?" might be more in order at this point.
Unfortunately, the dipshit comment (now flagged) a couple of replies above yours catapulted the other dipshit comment into upvote territory because despite its total lack of substance, people had to upvote it as some kind of political statement. Yeah, how dare this be downvoted, it's a very important comment (stating nothing of importance) about how disaster is happening everywhere all the time with zero nuance or introspection about why this might be! Le upvote!
I'd also like to know what my comment was flagged for, but I guess that's out of the question too. It's not very fun being censored with no explanation whatsoever.
Why did you jump to so many conclusions and resort so quickly to namecalling?