Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four days
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Re: Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four days
#2"The calculations put chance of the piracy having occured due to natural variability at 0.5%. “So it’s 99.5% that it occurred due to warming over the industrial era,” said Best."
We need to train children in school to understand what statistical confidence means, so that we stop saying wrong things like this.
Re: Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four days
#3This kind of thing has happened several times in China in recorded history with the Yellow River, to the point where sometimes the river has flowed into the ocean north of the Shandong peninsula and sometimes south of it.
Re: Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four days
#4There's another possibility of the event this author calls "river piracy." The Mississippi river is chronically at risk of being grabbed by the Atchafalaya River.
John McPhee wrote about this in 1987. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya
Re: Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four days
#5"The calculations put chance of the piracy having occured due to natural variability at 0.5%. “So it’s 99.5% that it occurred due to warming over the industrial era,” said Best." We need to train children in school to understand what statistical confidence means, so that we stop saying wrong things like this.
Why is it wrong?
If you reject the null hypothesis with a 99.5% chance it is not a type 1 error.
Re: Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four days
#6Booo it's the ghost of global warming! Always threatening, never happening.
Re: Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four days
#7Booo it's the ghost of global warming! Always threatening, never happening.
Are you serious right now? Global warming isn't just a moment in history, it's a process that has been happening over the years, with rising sea levels and land sinking in a lot of countries.
I guess you are just one of those people who fail to acknowledge it unless it's your own home slowly getting submerged under water.
Re: Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four days
#8I think you meant to put this comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14131759
Re: Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four days
#9I'm thinking you're commenting on the wrong article ;)
Did you mean -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14131759
Re: Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four days
#10Booo it's the ghost of global warming! Always threatening, never happening.
Tell that to the (Rep.) Mayor of Miami and the engineers there who are fighting on-going sea-level rise.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-beachs-400-million-s...