porous_grey_matter

Scientists do actually make attempts to investigate the contribution of the trends to specific events, it's called extreme event attribution, but it is a very young field and the error bars on everything are still huge. That said,

The American Meteorological Society stated in 2016 that "the science has now advanced to the point that we can detect the effects of climate change on some events with high confidence". [12]

But the quote from the article was strictly correct in saying "it's hard".

No, you're missing the point. We have conclusively "linked changes in climate to climate change" as your comment eloquently put it. That's not really up for debate. But weather systems are extremely complex and extreme events have always occurred. So you can't say that this one specific heatwave is caused only because of this trend.

When it comes to the urgency of doing something about it, that doesn't matter. It's absolutely sufficient to say "this type of event will occur increasingly often" to establish that it is an existential crisis. You don't have to be able to prove anything at all about this one very hot week in order to say that it is probably the single most important issue for us to tackle (along with the politics that prevent us from doing that).

But we don't have the science and statistics to generally link individual events to a trend in isolation, and we shouldn't misrepresent the science that way.

No, individual extreme events are not "changes in climate". It's easy to say that the rise in heatwaves is caused by climate change but it's much harder to prove that this specific individual heatwave would never have happened were it not for climate change.

That sentence perfectly states the difficulty though. The trend: easy to link. One individual event: not that easy.

Are y'all ok over there?

No, not really, with humidity and no aircon anything over the high 90s starts to get pretty unpleasant, especially when it goes on for days and doesn't cool down properly at night, so you can't cool your house down.

Yeah, I didn't see too many wasps when I lived there either, I think just those few degrees colder it is really helps. In France and Germany they are everywhere

In some parts when the wasps get bad you can't really avoid it, even if you can keep them off the food in the kitchen the moment you take it out it will be covered in them. If you don't want to eat food a wasp has touched you can only eat at home and nowhere else.

One trick is to make sure any overflow from the recyclers which can't get buffered is just fed into the recyclers again to be churned into, ultimately, nothing. It feels like a waste at first but the amount of scrap is basically limitless and avoiding getting blocked up is more important.

So scrap sent by train to the big factory island where it goes on a sushi belt around the recyclers. Output from the recyclers on a straight belt goes to individual sets of buffer chests for each item, and overflow from those goes back on the recyclers belt with priority. Outputs from the buffer chests feed the factory.

French remained influential in the courts, higher education, and elite society long after it stopped being the "official" language. That last part is totally right.

Sure, but many of those words for specialised doctors came to English through French, not directly from Latin or Greek. And I don't think that you can reasonably argue that English words with French origins aren't by now a native part of the language. We use many of the same names in Dutch too, coming from French loanwords.

Yeah, I'm sorry, didn't mean to come across so snarky to you, I really just wanted to rag on England (specifically)

I left the UK (not from there originally) because I didn't like it there, but I'd still move there from the USA

You could've done some research before (presumably) moving to the next best example of such a thing in the world