Hurricanes are one of the few things that aren’t unequivocal evidence for climate change. So of course we get this:https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/906359491851145216 …
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Veganelle #DefundThePolice She/Her Retweeted Katie Mack
She is a scientist, he is..... not.https://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/905954960075927553 …
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she’s an astrophysicist, and I’m citing research in the field
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My tweet was paraphrasing the scientists quoted in the article and the analysis therein.
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but that article says explicitly “no clear global warming signal has emerged in hurricane intensity trends” and hedges
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It extrapolates from our best current analysis to explain how storms like this will be more common/intense in the future
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I was reading stuff on "extreme event attribution" earlier that said we're just starting to be able to say "x is because of global warming"
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one argument I think we can all get around is ‘let’s not defund the agency that is collecting this vital data’
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I found this article informative, though to be fair it's written by a science writer, not a scientist: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/extreme-event-attribution-climate-versus-weather-blame-game …
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