Basically, if you only care
about the extreme events, they become massively more likely even with just a small increase in the mean of a distribution.
As someone who owns properties in five cities across three states, I'm thinking more and
more about extreme weather and how to manage this risk.
If you think about that, after a bit you know that idea is obvious, but that isn't the way that many people practically
think about extreme statistics.
What about extreme environments in which the body does not experience a normal daily cycle of sunlight and darkness?
I bet you can tell me
stories about extremes you've gone to in your life thinking you were finding health, but instead found exhaustion.
Introducing kids to the mysteries of weather, and
learning about extreme weather and wind speed, temperature and rainfall can be fascinating.
Many users are interested in
information about extreme weather of some sort (heat, precipitation, etc.) These can be difficult to simulate realistically; extreme precipitation is particularly tricky.
You'll
read about my extreme weight loss, our autism journey, country life, how to save money and plenty of yummy, easy recipes.
Scientists should look to trends before making dire
predictions about extreme weather, but the trends show no link to climate change.
Sometimes a person will read on the
internet about some extreme dietary approach and try it out, only to find themselves in a lot of trouble.
For example, if they wrote
about extreme skiing they could write articles and post content relating to that particular sport.
Companies that used asbestos have known about the link between asbestos exposure and smoking for decades but, instead of warning their workers
about this extreme risk, they chose to ignore the dangers.
Heck, even in the climate world, the left is actively denying the science concerning
trends about extreme weather and even rejects the pause.
For instance, if a
segment about an extreme weather event mentioned climate change briefly, the entire segment was counted as climate coverage.