This event has nothing to do with climate change and is pure fear mongering.

This is the same adage used by the Governments with the "think about the children" campaigns, its a distraction. A cop out.

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kulahan 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, the event primarily marked by receding glaciers probably has nothing to do with this glacier that weakened to the point of destroying a village.

This glacier probably melted many times in the past, especially in such a sudden and violent manner.

I'm sure this is in no way anomalous, nor is it something that could predictably result at some point from a warming planet.

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mlhpdx 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

The Missoula Floods. This kind of thing has been happening for a good long time.

That doesn’t diminish the tragedy in any way, this event was shocking and brutal. But it wasn’t the first and won’t be the last.

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		“Guys this isn’t global climate change, this happened once before at the end of the ice age!” I have no clue what point you’re trying to make, but I don’t think you got it across here.

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dredmorbius 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

</sarcasm>

(For the detection-impaired.)

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wahern 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I sympathize with the reaction to the hyperbole, but it's not a binary thing. Better to think in terms of marginal increases in occurrence rate, or in a single case marginal increase in progression of an impending event (glaciers were all gonna be gone in a few thousand years anyhow).

Still plenty of room to debate numbers.

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