Danny –
==> “The post is discussing the “climate change availability cascade” so why the quotation may indeed be hyperbolic, it comes across to me to be a useful tool when waged versus topics such as GW/CC having caused Malia’s asthma.” In turn, isn’t Dr. Curry’s use of those words indicate the exactly the cascade effect to which the article refers?”
Not sure what you meant there, but it was interesting that Judith (without acknowledgement) took out the reference to Obama blaming his daughter’s asthma on climate change, as a “absurd example” – when it could be considered as an example of her engaging in an “availability cascade” and certainly serves as an example of how it is misleading to deal with the issues as if they only apply on one side of the climate wars
==> “We’re not privy to the audience for which this effort is addressed. ”
Well, sure, that’s true.
==> “Much of the issue in the larger discussion of GW/CC is cascaded from the AGW or more so the CAGW side.”
Hmmm I see posts and comments all throughout the “skept-o-sphere” that talk of “economic suicide” and a massive “hoax” and comparisons to Lysenko and Stalin and references to “warmunists,” blah, blah, blah. IMO, what would be more interesting and more valuable to look at the underlying issues related to “availability cascades” as they exist in a non-tribal framework and then, perhaps, carefully and with due skeptical diligence and application of a scientific approach to analysis determine whether this balance that you assert (based on purely anecdotal evidence gathering I assume?) is borne out.
==> “After all, GW/CC is the cause of: asthma”
See. Right there, that is what I am talking about. That is a rhetorical application of “cause.” Does exacerbate mean “cause?” How many people argue that climate change “causes” asthma – as if other underlying factors aren’t the main causality? This is where the hyperbolic language that Judith uses seems to me to be counterproductive.
===> “and other health issues, war, famine, deaths of millions of children, future SLR, habitat destruction, extinction, etc., etc.”
All worthwhile issues for a non-tribalisitc and non-hyperbolic approach, IMO.
==> “I stand by adding only the word almost as suggested above.
And my perspective is that saying:
Almost [e]verything that goes wrong then reinforces the conviction that that there is only one thing we can do [to] prevent societal problems – stop burning fossil fuels.
is counterproductive hyperbole that only fans the flames of tribalism.
Interesting that you chose to focus on this tool of choice of Dr. Curry’s yet I can’t recall you having done so w/r/t these other issues. I stand by adding only the word almost as suggested above.
