“linked to climate change”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Pakistan_floods

Are we linking every weather event to climate change?

Can we tighten up our science a little?

Somewhere I read that the Pakistan issue was not related to climate change and more to do with where the people lived.

More people are living in flood zones, for example.

I think article is a good example that current events and world news is basically bad for you.

What can we say about this article?

- it’s alarming, particularly if you already happened to hold the view that it’s all going to hell

- it’s not actionable, there’s nothing you can or should do differently as a result of this article

- it’s probably not even meaningful, the world is a random event generator and the worse event or piece of news on any given day is terrible! But that says nothing about how things actually are

The last point bears repeating. If you read a news article and update your understanding of the world to think “X is more common than I thought” after reading an article on X - you often end up less informed than if you hadn’t read the article at all. Replace X for any rare event that occurs in the news. The availability of the news on a thing is not the rate of the thing happening.

"The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) reached a record 71.1 million worldwide last year due to conflicts such as the war in Ukraine and climate calamities like the monsoon floods in Pakistan, according to data published on Thursday.

The Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said that figure represented a 20% increase since 2021, with an unprecedented number of people fleeing in search of safety and shelter."

20% increase!! For people talking about how this is statistical manipulation, good luck justifying 20%

This sounds like the old trick of mixing in two buckets into one to make each original bucket appear larger than it actually was.

Said every ancient collapsed civilization.

If everything remains constant but the population keeps growing, the amount of population affected by phenomenon Y will also increase every year.

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