Jesus» belief in miracles, then, does not mean that Jesus was convinced of special supernatural forces and laws, but simply that he held certain happenings to be the direct action of God, that
he attributed particular events in an especial sense to the will of God.
When talking climate, the rules are that you can not
attribute any particular event to climate change.
Scientists will tell you correctly that they can not
attribute any particular event to global warming because Nature doesn't leave that kind of signal for us.
Note that I'm not
attributing a particular event to global warming, just pointing out that it is obvious that the predicted warming will have very real detrimental effects on our lives, this is just the beginning.
Not exact matches
You can
attribute your conversion to a
particular user,
event or campaign and see which items are working best down to a granular level.
We can not break the
event into parts and
attribute the whole effect to one part, nor can we ascribe any
particular part of the effect to any
particular part of the
event.
But, we ask, what justification have we for
attributing such a significance to this
particular historical
event?
So the real way Burke succumbed to «historicism» — or something like it — was in
attributing too much significance to a
particular political
event, and so in having too little confidence in (or at least faith in) in the resilience of human nature.
I can usually
attribute the high spikes to a
particular marketing
event.
While it is true that any one
particular storm or weather
event can not be
attributed to climate change alone, unusual rain such as this is precisely the type of «global weirding» that climate scientists have predicted would occur as the climate warmed.
You know, as you know, Mark, we can't
attribute any
particular weather
event to climate change.
In recent decades, this warming was accompanied by the constant rising of the sea level, and it is also hard not to relate it with the rise in extreme weather
events, regardless of the fact that we can not
attribute a scientifically determined cause to each phenomenon in
particular.
And certainly any scientist worth his salt knows that
attributing any
particular weather
event to climate is dicey at best.
Given that global warming is unequivocal, the null hypothesis should be that all weather
events are affected by global warming rather than the inane statements along the lines of «of course we can not
attribute any
particular weather
event to global warming».
When an extreme climate
event takes place, a range of users would like to know as soon as possible not only how rare this
particular event is but also whether it could be
attributed to climate change or if, instead, it is part of the climate variability one would expect in the absence of climate change.
OBAMA: You know — as you know, Mark, we can't
attribute any
particular weather
event to climate change.
It is virtually impossible to
attribute any one
event in a chaotic system to any
particular cause.
Many climate scientists (including ourselves) routinely answer media calls after extreme
events with the phrase that a
particular event can not be directly
attributed to global warming.
Conversely, it is sometimes stated that it is impossible to
attribute any individual weather or climate - related
event to a
particular cause.
Apart from the issue of whether or not we can
attribute a portion of a
particular extreme weather
event to global warming (this will be the topic of a future post), exactly what is the point of even trying to do so?