'Heat Dome' Linked to Greenland's Biggest Melt in 30 Years

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7. The parts of the article left out:

From the New York Times, "While scientists described it as an “extreme event” not previously recorded from space, they hastened to add that it was normal in a broader historical context."

From the BBC, "He said that, because this Greenland-wide melting has happened before - in 1889 - scientists are not yet able to determine whether this is a natural but rare event, or if it has been sparked by man-made climate change."

I not only agree that global climate change is occurring, I am convinced it is happening faster then we know. But no single event is proof, or even evidence of that, and to keep jumping up and down over one event is nonsensical and makes us look like idiots. Deniers are going to look at this and point out that our "proof" given here is bogus because it not only happened before, it happened as far back as 1889.

Every time we make some claim that can be shown to be bogus, we give deniers ammunition to claim that we are nutcases rather than serious people who are concerned about our planet. Every time we take some little thing and blow it up into something which it is not, we weaken our cause. Stop acting like children, and get serious about this issue.