Europe's deadly floods are glimpse of future climate

What's up with so many Hacker News commenters coming out of the woodwork when headlines blame climate change to challenge it?

Just a glimpse of the article shows there's some research behind making the point of the headline, still people feel the need to comment on their feelings to deny it possibly could be due to climate change.

Per the article:

> The World Weather Attribution (WWA) group said one recent four-day period was the rainiest ever recorded in central Europe - an intensity made twice as likely by climate change.

> The kind of rainfall unleashed by Boris is thankfully still rare – expected to occur about once every 100-300 years in today’s climate, which has warmed by about 1.3C due to greenhouse gas emissions.

> But if warming reaches 2C, similar episodes will become an extra 5% more intense and 50% more frequent, the WWA warned.

> Without more ambitious climate action, global warming is expected to reach around 3C by the end of the century.

> “This is definitely what we will see much more of in the future,” said Friederike Otto, senior lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London and co-author of the WWA study.

There's a study, BBC is reporting on it and some people feel the need to challenge it even though probably know nothing of climate science?

Is science denialism reaching even folks here? What do you get out of this behaviour?

Yes, there have always been floods. But we had several events on the scale of "once in a century" in the last years... So, maybe... centuries don't last as long any more?

HN audience is both reflexively contrarian (will argue with any article on any subject), and also surprisingly rightwing (exposed to climate change denialists).

> There are always been floods. But now they get worse. How much worse ? I don't know.

From the OP: "But if warming reaches 2C, similar episodes will become an extra 5% more intense and 50% more frequent, the WWA warned."