Colorful Garden Chat Picture Thread

I also have an itch in my fingers. But it is not too early and too dry.

So we had a pleasant little over 26 degrees today. The whole week looks similar, tending to be a bit cooler towards the end of the week. If the forecasted thunderstorms rain down somewhere else now, it will be almost ideal to set up my garden house.

If the predicted thunderstorms now also rain elsewhere, it will be almost ideal to set up my garden shed.

… feel free to send them here. For 2 months every forecasted rain has passed us by :(

I was at an old monastery over the weekend where the highest levels of the Danube were marked … rank 1 and 2 and over 1m higher than the next highest: in the years 1784 and 1845. So humans couldn’t have been the problem …. Yes, the climate is changing but as for how much influence humans have on it and above all the Germans, I question myself.

Oh no. Not again. THE absolute evergreen of logical fallacies on the topic of climate change. Because something happened earlier, it can’t suddenly have other causes much later. In the early days of the dinosaurs, CO2 levels were much higher, humans were still hundreds of millions of years away. Conclusion: Humans can’t be responsible for today’s rise in CO2 levels. That’s what logic says… The problem with that argument is not that it would be factually wrong (on the contrary, it is factually correct), but that it is logically incoherent. And that kind of thing is often much harder to convey.

Oh no. Not again. THE absolute evergreen of thinking errors on the topic of climate change. Because there was something in the past, it can’t suddenly have other reasons much later.

In the early days of the dinosaurs, CO2 levels were much higher, humans were still hundreds of millions of years away. Conclusion: Humans cannot be responsible for today’s increase in CO2 levels. Logic says so…

The problem with this argument is not that it would be factually wrong (on the contrary, it is factually correct), but that it is logically not consistent. And such things are often much harder to convey.

Scientists have been arguing about this for years but apparently you know better.

I don’t understand why it should be logically inconsistent.

However, if one assumes that humans are the cause, then one would have to approach the 80/20 rule … 20% cause 80% … And at first, those are just two specific nations.
I am also in favor of protecting the environment but for me it all seems a bit too dogmatic. Just because there is little rain this year, we don’t simply talk about heat and summer but immediately about climate change.

In the past, Tagesschau made the maps with temperatures at 26 degrees green, today it is deep red there.

You are making an unauthorized conclusion. It's like if someone said all children are born by women, so all women give birth to children. Or if in the past a person accidentally died from a bullet, that means all deaths caused by firearms are accidents. The researchers do not argue whether climate change exists or is man-made, they only argue about whether it can still be stopped and if so, how. The so-called scientists who actually still hold up the opposing(!) sign are mostly not specialists, outsiders and/or are not taken seriously or debated in the professional discourse (peer review). No, we are involved in the 80% emissions, we are in sixth place. But it is true that other countries emit significantly more. How one can conclude from that that nothing needs to be done is not clear to me. It is not just this year. It is clearly visible how in the last 150 years (that is since the industrial revolution) climate extremes have become more frequent, the temperature increase has proceeded at an unprecedented speed, and the origin of CO2 (namely not from volcanoes or so) can also be proven. The thing with the Tagesschau weather map is wrong. Corresponding memes were exposed as fake or manipulative. Different topics are shown there: daily temperature versus three-day forecast. I recommend a well-known fact-checking site for reading on this. Unfortunately, linking is not allowed here, but if you inform yourself a bit outside of social media and the denier bubble, you will see this quite quickly.