| Re: "Humans 'very likely' making earth warmer" is wrong
Bill Baka <bbaka@comcast.net> writes:
>Bernd Felsche wrote:
>> Bill Baka <bbaka@comcast.net> writes:
>>> Joe Fischer wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Bill Baka <bbaka@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>> I have seen things like tornadoes here in California that were
>>>>> once considered impossible ten or twenty years ago. The planet
>>>>> might just decide to scratch us 'fleas' off.
>>>> Tornados are possible almost anyplace (level
>>>> ground usually though), and there is plenty of wind
>>>> shear in California sometimes with the Satana Winds,
>>>> but what is usually needed is hail conditions, and
>>>> lots of precipitation and cold air aloft helps create
>>>> that condition.
>>
>>> If you don't get it now I doubt you ever will.
>>> It's a little known thing called "Cause and effect".
>> Look up "post hoc ergo propter hoc"
>After something, then because of something?
"after this, therefore because of this"
>Latin logic?
Classical, logical fallacy.
A temporal sequence of two things; one following another.
The fallacy is that the earlier caused the later.
e.g. Cat walks across front lawn and picture falls from the wall.
Sequence is not proof of causality.
>Circular logic.
>Maybe that would apply to the current situation.
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