Thread by @homemadeguitars

There is an established norm regarding weather reporting. Each article must carry the mandatory disclaimer, a statement that no individual weather event can be attributed to climate change because "we can't know."
This is how to lie with true words.
Allow me to explain.

2. All weather is caused directly by energy in the atmosphere. Absent energy there would be no weather.
That said, the atmosphere is so complex that we are not able to track the path the energy takes directly to the rainfall, or the wind, or the temperature increase or decrease.

3. Roughly we know. We can explain it in block diagram form, in rule-of-thumb form, but not absolutely specifically.
We do know one thing for sure, though: more energy must, in all cases, result in more action. Energy causes action. That is how the whole universe works. Always.

4. So if the reporters weren't ignorant, or liars, the standard disclaimer would go like this:
"Climate change must, in all cases, increase the power and violence of the weather. We don't know exactly how, but that much we know."
But they do it the other way around.
Not the truth

5. There is essentially no truth in reporting either the outcomes of added energy in the whole global ecosystem, nor the way to quit it.
We live in a totally truth-free environment.
That's why virtually all Americans believe we can solve climate with a huge burst of new emissions

6. The entire public conversation is based on lies, many of which have some nugget of truth to give them additional persuasive power.
It ain't gonna work.

I didn't state this part, and I'd guess I'd better:
Measuring an increase in "temperature" is measuring an increase in total energy contained in the system.
Temperature is the measure of quantity of thermal energy.
We have added energy to the system. That's what the numbers mean.