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Martin Capages,Jr.'s avatar

“The abandonment of the IPCC framework for detection and attribution with respect to extreme events can also look like a political strategy in the face of the inability of conventional IPCC methods to either detect or attribute a signal of human-caused climate change in the historical record of most types of weather extremes.” Because there is no major negative effect of CO2 on the climate. Just higher plant growth. That’s about it.

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"The use of highly uncertain and malleable methods with essentially no predictive skill to associate essentially any extreme event to climate change can certainly help to generate headlines and to support advocacy."

"As one climate scientist wryly observes of such methods, “It is important to appreciate that being quantitative is not necessarily the same thing as being rigorous.”

Indeed, Roger. Broadly speaking, that's how we got to the present lay of the land.

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