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Their wordsThese scientists all well know that "climate policy" - however construed - cannot reduce the number or intensity of extreme weather events in any meaningful or detectable way in my lifetime, or even my future grandkids' lifetimes.
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The WWA methodology allows any variable with an increasing trend to be attributed to climate change.
Their wordsFurther, under the WWA methodology any time series with a trend, up or down, - and in any context - can be "attributed to climate change."
Their wordsThe creators of EEA have always been open about the fact that their claimed attribution of the likelihood or intensity of an event to causes is assumed, not shown or investigated.
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