• Eco [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    i mean even if they know the cause of the cause that’s not the same as knowing the cause if you get me

    it’s probably more accurate to say they don’t know what climate change-induced process is causing the cooling but that’s not as good a headline

    • propter_hog [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      This. I work at a research lab and we don’t know shit about shit. Sure, we can gesture vaguely at anthropogenic climate change, but that doesnt get you published.

    • HamManBad [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      The fact that it’s probably several different climate-induced processes causing the change makes it very difficult to establish causality. All we know definitively is that shits fucked