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What? The headline literally says “this heatwave is caused by global warming”.

That’s the claim that spurious and unproven.

And yes, it’s not different than having a cold snap and saying “this cold snap is making people question if global warming is happening”.

Both are just cherry picked anecdotes.

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If I dump a bunch of wasps in your house, and I say, “hey, watch out for the wasps”, and then you get stung by some wasps — well, it’s pretty damn obvious what’s happening. Can you prove it? Eventually, maybe. And often times these extreme weather events do get properly studied and officially linked to Climate Change. Years later, after people make the same tired points about how you can’t prove this is linked to climate, yada yada yada.

That’s a terrible analogy.

More like “if you were a bee keeper and got bit between 3 and 5 times a day and I introduced a more aggressive bee and you got bit 5 times two days in a row it proves it was due to the more aggressive bee”.

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