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Where Australia's electricity comes from
This widget is updated every couple of minutes and shows why Australia is such a huge GHG emitter.
Attributing extreme events to climate change
Graham Readfearn has a good article at The Guardian, about attributing extreme events to climate change. He points out the distinction between "causing" and "influencing" (which is much too nuanced a distinction for science deniers).
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I'm impressed that they're getting so fast at crunching the relevant numbers now. I think they're right that it'll be a useful tool for engaging the public, and hopefully generating more of a push for concrete action.
surely the problem is that in a chaotic system like the climate attributing a single event is always fraught with difficulties
and you run the risk of a "denier" simply saying "prove it"
my analogy (hopefully I am on the right lines, please correct me if I am not) is that AGW is like putting an extra 5 of hearts in a deck of cards
the next time you pull a card out of the pack - if it is the 5 of hearts, who's to say it was not the original one - a denier would certainly say it was
but what you can confidently say is that in any amount of random picks, a 5 of hearts will come up more often
it is the gamblers fallacy to suggest or think otherwise
but then the existence of Las Vegas is testament to peoples stupidity
Come on children (not you folks, the rhetorical masses),
our entire globe is warming, more energy within the system, more moisture in the atmosphere.
Weather is something that spawns from climate conditions.
Our ability to exactly measure it does nothing to change that reality.
Long way of saying
I hope Readfearn said much the same thing, probably, he's a good intelligent writer.
{Sorry. Don't have time to read it.
I got myself sucked into something crazy and Colorado local - life's full of surprises I never thought I'd be writing about the health care system. November 8th election is getting closer and we have a ColoradoCare health care/insurance Amendment on the ballet and my FCFP deadline is barreling down on me with a wild story dropped into my lap, gotta focus, gotta focus.
I'm just peeking in because I couldn't resist seeing what's happening before going to sleep.
Cheers all. }
As such asking if we can attribute one event to global warming is the wrong question.
The question should be is the likelihood of an extreme event like the one In Australia more probable?
It's a legal mess. ColoradoCare has responded.
It's a weird deal. The Amendment is limited in length, leaving out many details that can only be worked out once it's been voted in. It's one of the main arguments against it.
My attitude is that the current health care (including workers comp) system is really a mess and patient hostile and substantive improvement will never come from the corporations who's profits obsession has created many of today's problems to begin with. This Amendment offers a structure to fundamentally rebuild how Coloradans receive (and perceive) their health care.
This twist with the abortion services might be just what we need to rehear the abortion legal issues and get them tossed it out.
No doubt it's a gamble. If the newly installed ColoradoCare board and the other varied players and entities get together with a commitment to a common goal. If the public get's behind them, both supporting and supervising - then a dramatically improved health care system will be the product.
If the process get's lost in dirty tricks and powerful greedy interference, then it'll be a mess.
I for one want to take the gamble.