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Originally Posted by Chris
I’m by no means a climate sceptic but as a bald statistic this doesn’t mean anything. Neither does the observation that a human couldn’t survive in it for any length of time.
There are plenty of places on earth a human can’t survive without serious technical assistance, either because of extreme heat, cold, altitude or whatever. While I’m content to accept we have a problem, gaining widespread acceptance of that fact requires careful, patient and well-explained and properly contextualised statistics. Sharing headline figures in isolation makes the error of confusing weather with climate; this in turn gives sceptics an ‘out’ (because it’s easy to select some other weather and use it to make a counterfactual argument).
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I think the issue being tracked here, and I do take your point on isolated data points, is the incremental increase over recent time of temperatures in places like Iran.
If I have time, I will try and find some trend data to illuminate this.