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by pergadad 2712 days ago
Sorry the first sentence should read:

That's the point. As the earth overall is heating up weather patterns...

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Correlation is not causation... Do we know that weather patterns would not change if the temperature of the atmosphere was not changing?
Correlation does not always imply causation. We live in a world with imperfect information and each of us has to decide the best course of action based on the evidence available. The phrase “global warming” is just a shorthand way of saying that we are adding massive amounts of the energy to the system controlling weather. When we see weather changing whilst knowing that we’ve added a massive amount of energy to the system then a reasonable person concludes causation. It’s the most likely explanation.