Climate Tutorial: How to do Attribution Studies
The alarmists love to do what they call "attribution studies," but this is all just a scam. They like to make these things they call "rapid attribution" after extreme events so that they can blame everything bad on climate change as fast as possible. But they are doing this all wrong. The king of doing attribution correctly is John Shewchuk, who is my absolute favorite climate hero. He knows how to do this correctly. His scientific method is a little over my head, but it seems to me that his appreoach can be summarized like this: First you have to decide that no weather event can be caused by human activity because that's what raging communists and alarmist cultists say. Second, you look for a natural event that happened before the event you're studying, and you blame the event on that. Third, you show a graph showing the event and make an arrow pointing to that event with a description of what you say caused it. Fourth, you mock the "science" that...